Josip Pelikan Photographic Studio, Celje

Contact

This logo is missing!

If you have it, please email it to us.

Fotografski atelje Josipa Pelikana, Celje

Razlagova 5, SI-3000 Celje

mnzc@guest.arnes.si

Phone386 (0) 3 428 6410

Founded byCelje Museum of Recent History

See on Google Maps

Events abroad

Past Events

• 7 Aug 2015

  to

  30 Sep 2015

  Czech Republic Český Krumlov Museum Fotoateliér Seidel

  
  programme

  
  

  
  

  An exhibition of the works of photographer Josip Pelikan from the collection of the Celje Museum of Recent History

  
  

  
  

  
  

• 1 Mar 2011

  to

  30 Apr 2011

  Serbia Novi Sad Museum of Vojvodina

  
  programme

  
  

  
  

  Photographs by Josip Pelikan from Celje Museum of Recent History

  
  

  
  

  
  

Show more

Josip Pelikan Photographic Studio, preserved studio the famous Slovene photographer Josip Pelikan (1885 - 1977), established as a museum in 1989, Celje. The museum display presents a special collection containing historic photographic equipment

Josip Pelikan Photographic Studio, a branch of the Celje Museum of Recent History, was established as a museum exhibition in 1989. The studio is without a doubt one of the best preserved luxurious glass photographic ateliers in Europe with original equipment used by the famous Slovene photographer Josip Pelikan (1885–1977). The 19th-century glass photographic studio on the second floor makes daylight photography possible even today.

Collection

The museum display presents a special collection containing historic photographic equipment, including travel cameras, mobile study cameras, studio lenses and backgrounds. Original photography of various formats, negatives and glass photographic plates show mainly portrait, studio, industry and mountain motives. There are around 50,000 photographs and 10,000 negatives in the collection and Celje Museum of Recent History.

Occasionally the studio has been revived by Borut Peterlin, a professional photographer and an enthusiastic researcher of old photographic techniques.

Background

The studio was first established by Johann Martin Lenz, a photographer based in Celje, who had this studio built in 1899, with three workrooms on the ground floor and a metal-and-glass structure on the second floor. The studio was heated, enabling the photographer to work in it all year round. In 1919 the house and studio were purchased by Josip Pelikan. The photographer left behind much high-quality documentary material from the time he lived in Celje between 1919 and 1977. He was the official photographer of the city of Celje and of the health centres of the region in the first half of the 20th century, for example, the spas Rogaška Slatina, Dobrna, and Rimske toplice. During Second World War he documented suffering and war atrocities that were forced upon people of Celje region. After the war he committed himself to landscape photography. At that time he was one of the best Yugoslav professional photographers and a strict mentor to his followers, teaching the traditional photography techniques of wet and dry glass negatives, retouching, and manipulation of white photo paper.

See also

• Celje Museum of Recent History

External links

• Celje Museum of Recent History website
• Panoramic view of Josip Pelikan Photographic Studio, Slovenia Landmarks by Boštjan Burger
• Josip Pelikan's photographies in the digital archive, DLib.si - Digital Library of Slovenia
• An article on the Borut Peterlin's revival of the Pelikan Studio (in Slovenian)

Gallery

Josip Pelikan - Portretist, by Andreja Rihter, covering portrait work by noted Yugoslav photographer Josip Pelikan (1885–1977)

Josip Pelikan Photographic Studio, preserved studio the famous Slovene photographer Josip Pelikan (1885 - 1977), established as a museum in 1989, Celje. The museum display presents a special collection containing historic photographic equipment

Josip Pelikan Photographic Studio, the studio is preserved luxurious glass photographic atelier with original equipment used by the famous Slovene photographer Josip Pelikan (1885–1977), established as a museum in 1989, Celje