Karl Ernst Papf

Brazil · 1833–1910

Karl Ernst Papf, or Ernesto Papf was a German-born Brazilian photographer, painter and designer. Papf was a prominent figure in the genre of fotopinturas, the process of retouching photographs to make them resemble oil paintings, having produced several portraits for the Brazilian Imperial Family. == Biography == Papf was born in the city of Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony, on March 17 1833 to a family of miners. Not wishing to follow in his family's profession, Papf found the means to enroll at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in around 1850. Two years later, in 1852, Papf, then 19, saw one of his first successes with a painting dedicated to memories of his father.

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