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Place of Birth: Ludwigslust, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
About Franz Benque
- Franz Benque (12 March 1841 – 30 March 1921), known in Brazil as Francisco Benque, was a German photographer. Son of a professor, Benque was born in Ludwigslust, nowadays a city located in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, northern Germany.
- He received lessons of photography from C.C.
- Hersen before moving to the then Austrian city Trieste in 1864, where he opened a studio in partnership with the Italian watchmaker Guglielmo Sebastianutti (1825-1881), marrying Sebastianutti' stepdaughter, Isabella, in 1868. Despite being recognized by the local press and specialized organizations, receiving - among other things - a silver medal in the World Fair of Paris in 1867, Benque returned to Germany in 1869 and opened a studio with his cousin Conrad Kindermann in Hamburg. One year later, in 1870, immigrated with his family to Brazil.
- With Alberto Henschel (1827-1882), a German from Berlin that migrated to Brazil in 1866, owner of the company Photographia Allemã (German Photography) with studios in Bahia and Pernambuco, Benque established the partnership Henschel & Benque Photographia Allemã that would become one of the most renowned Brazilian photography houses in that time.In 1878 Benque returned to Trieste and continued to work with Sebastianutti.
- In 1903 he moved to the Austrian city of Villach, where he died in 1921.
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