Hugo Erfurth; Thuringian peasants; paper; platinum printing; image size: height: 11.2 cm; width: 15.7 cm; inscribed and dated: Cardboard recto above and below the print: in brown ink: 93; H. Erfurth; Dresden; inscribed: cardboard verso: lower left in dark brown ink: Box 9 Thuringian Peasants; lower left with black felt-tip pen: Hugo Erfurth; Dresden; repro no; inscribed: cardboard back side: lower left in dark brown ink: Box 9 Thuringian peasants; lower left with black felt-tip pen: Hugo Erfurth; Dresden; repro no; stamp: cardboard back side and right: handwritten with ballpoint pen added: 311; stamp: cardboard back side: and in the middle; ; lower right: handwritten in blue ink supplemented: box 29/11; at the bottom: location of the Staatliche Landesbildstelle Hamburg; handwritten in lead supplemented: 26; 30; portrait photography; group portrait; folk costume; regional costume; inn; coffee house; pub; rural life; At the beginning of the 20th century; the state of Hamburg was the only state to have an inventory stamp. Century ranks Hugo Erfurth beside Rudolph D黨rkoop and Nicola Perscheid among the most well-known occupation photographers in Germany. After completing an apprenticeship as a photographer; he opened his own studio in Dresden at the age of only 22. Soon Erfurth orientated himself towards the up-and-coming pictorialist photography; participated in numerous amateur photographic exhibitions from 1894 onwards and managed to make a name for himself both as an artistically ennobled amateur and successful professional photographer. Portraits are central to his work; which he began taking in 1906 in his new studio; a classicist palace; in a stylishly elegant ambience; appealing to the wealthy bourgeoisie. He also produced numerous portraits of famous personalities; including K鋞he Kollwitz; Otto Dix and Joachim Ringelnatz. While his studies around 1905 still show full-length figures depicted in an atmospheric way; from the 1920s onward the focus is on the fa