Rudolf Franz Lehnert was a photographer.

Life

Lehnert was born in Gross Aupa (now Velká Úpa), then in Bohemia and now in the Czech Republic. With Ernst Heinrich Landrock

Ernst Heinrich Landrock

Ernst Heinrich Landrock was a photographer, based in Tunis, Leipzig and Cairo.He is known for his works with Rudolf Franz Lehnert, published as "Lehnert & Landrock".- External links :*...

, he based a photographic company in, successively, Tunis

Tunis

Tunis is the capital of both the Tunisian Republic and the Tunis Governorate. It is Tunisia's largest city, with a population of 728,453 as of 2004; the greater metropolitan area holds some 2,412,500 inhabitants....

, Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

, Leipzig

Leipzig

Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...

 and Cairo

Cairo

Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...

, publishing the works as by "Lehnert & Landrock".

From the 1860s onwards photographs of people with different cultural values and sexual morality became popular for artistic and erotic reasons. These nude images often say more about the fantasies and culture of the photographers than about the portrayed cultures, and border on racism and ethnocentiricity.

Lehnert spent the last part of his life at Redeyef

Redeyef

Redeyef is a town and commune in the Gafsa Governorate, Tunisia. As of 2004 it had a population of 26,143. City industry is mainly based on mining.-Infrastructure:...

, Gafza Oasis, Tunisia, where he died.

External links

• Lehnert & Landrock - Biography
• Mégnin, Michel. Chronology for Tunis 1900, Lehnert & Landrock, photographes. 
• original visuals used for the Muslimgauze's artworks, examples of photographs

Gallery