This row of trees silhouetted against the sky was believed to have been photographed in the present-day Märkische Schweiz Nature Park in Brandenburg, Germany.

Otto Rau: 1856-1834

Dresden 1856 – after 1934, Munich

The heliographer and painter Rau was co-owner of the  plate-making company Meisenbach, Riffarth & Co., which had its headquarters in Berlin and Munich, from 1893 to 1905. From 1891 Rau was a member of the Free Photographic Association in Berlin, and from 1894 to 1900 the Hamburg Amateur Photographers’ Association, which from 1895 was called the Society for the Promotion of Amateur Photography in Hamburg, (and) listed him as a corresponding member. (1.)

1. Biography: Otto Rau: Kunstphotographie Um 1900: Die Sammlung Ernst Juhl; Hamburg: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1989, p. 277. Editors note: one online sale of one of Rau’s paintings list his dates as 1856-1937.