German daguerreotypes in the frame at Chiswick sale
Trudpert Schneider (1804-99), a Freiburg carpenter whose first brush with photography was to repair a broken box camera, is today deemed one of Germany’s most important daguerreotypists. The photographic firm he founded in 1847 continued under the management of his sons Heinrich and Wilhelm until 1921.
The Schneider and Sons atelier perfected the life of itinerant photographers – typically travellin…