A nude model reads while lying next to a St. Bernard dog. The photograph was intended as a “design” to be copied by other means: etching, woodcut, etc., and engraved into a bookplate label.

Aura Hertwig: 1861-1944

Aura Hertwig (born June 6, 1861 in Posen as Aurelie Antoinette Paschke; died September 28, 1944 in Lossow) was a German photographer and poet. After her marriage, she also called herself Aura Hertwig-Brendel.

Life- Around 1900 she began working as an art photographer in Berlin, where she photographed Gerhart Hauptmann and Lovis Corinth; she also photographed in literary circles in Vienna, including Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Arthur Schnitzler and Hermann Bahr. She was a member of several photographic associations, including the Free Photographic Association in Berlin, the Dresden Society for the Promotion of Amateur Photography, and from 1903 an external member of the Free Association of Amateur Photographers in Hamburg. She married the painter Karl Alexander Brendel on October 29, 1910 in Charlottenburg. At least from 1905 to 1912, she ran a studio at Hardenbergstrasse 24. She then lived with her husband in Buschmühle near Frankfurt (Oder). Together with him (Stone Drawings), she published a volume of her own poems in 1931 under the name Aura Brendel. According to her death entry in the Lossow registry office, she died at the age of 83 on September 28, 1944 in her apartment in Lossow, Lebus district, now a district of Frankfurt (Oder).The cause of death is given as heart failure. -Wikipedia (2024-translated from the German)