[MOUNTAINS - Carpathian Mountains - Pieniny - Forest Brook - view photograph - cdv shot]. [l. 70s of the 19th century?]....

[MOUNTAINS - CarpathianMountains - Pieniny - Forest Brook - view photograph - cdv shot]. [l. 70s of the 19th century?]. Photograph form. 5.4x9.4 cm on original backing form. 6.5x10.7 cm, by A[wit] Szubert in Cracow and Szczawnica.
Depicts a view of the mountains with the Lesny Potok - the right tributary of the Dunajec River. Photo pasted on original cardboard backing with narrow red frame. On the right margin of the backing print: A. Szubert in Krakow and Szczawnica". On the back an advertising vignette of the establishment printed: "A.Szubert in Cracow 7 Krupnicza Street and Szczawnica in Cursalon" and a handwritten inscription in red ink: "Forest Brook". Very good condition.
A. Szubert (1837-1919) - painter, photographer, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (student of W. Łuszczkiewicz and W. Stattler), in Rome and Vienna. One of the first Tatra photographers. He photographed mainly the Tatra Mountains and Pieniny. He opened establishments in Oświęcim (1864), in Cursalon in Szczawnica (1865-1866) and in Cracow (1867-1882 at 17 Krupnicza Street) and again in Szczawnica (1882-1909). In 1876, the photographic establishment at 17 Krupnicza Street was awarded a medal of progress at a photographic exhibition in Brussels. Between 1893 and 1913 the establishment was run by his son Awit, and between 1913 and 1914 by his wife Amalia. From the 1870s he also photographed works of art, mainly paintings.