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He received his training at the
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The global economic crisis in the 1930s also affected the work in the studio. The situation deteriorated and Setzer withdrew, also for health reason. Tschiedel, who had already worked closely with Setzer in recent years, became the technical director of the studio in 1934 and increasingly assumed
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The ambience of "Setzer – Photographische
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At the age of 52, Franz Xaver Setzer died in
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created in Setzer's studio were of the highest artistic quality had quickly spread in Vienna during the interwar years. The well-lit studio in the attic of the
Museumstrasse 5 in the 7th district in Vienna was one of the first addresses for portraits.
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An excerpt from the record and negative booklet of the Setzer-Tschiedel archive gives an overview of the extensive oeuvre of portraits taken in the studio of Franz Xaver Setzer and in the following years under Marie
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this marriage expanded his social position. In addition to contemporary artists, representatives of the aristocracy, politicians and economists were increasingly included in the group of people who were photographed by Setzer.
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took up a position as assistant to the artist in the studio. She had also studied at the KuK Graphische Lehr- und
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