Rudolf & Ernst Lehnert & Landrock - Kairo Panorama

Large-format, slightly brominated silver gelatine panorama-vintage around 1920
Egyptian Museum in Cairo and city panorama.
Approx. 28 x 18 cm. Defects on the left and right sides of the photograph. Original stamp on the reverse


In 1904 the Austrian Rudolf Franz Lehnert and the German Ernst Heinrich Landrock founded a photography studio in Tunis. You are looking for the typical image of the "Orient". While Lehnert took photos on numerous trips through Tunisia, Landrock took over the management of the studio. Business is going very well as there are many lovers of exotic images in “old Europe”. The two photographers provide numerous nudes, portraits and landscape images. You thus meet the expectations of “Arabic poetry”: the woman, the garden (the oasis) and the desert. Although the pictures are published in Munich and Leipzig, they find their way all over the world.

The First World War marked a turning point. Lehnert and Landrock left Tunisia with their families in 1924 and opened a shop for postcards and reproductions in Cairo. Unfortunately, business is not going as well as it was in Tunis before the war. Lehnert returned to Tunis in 1930 and left the company. There he founded a photo studio for portrait photography. He dies in 1948. Landrock also sold his shares in the original company in 1938 and returned to Germany. He lives first in southern Germany and later in Switzerland. He dies in 1966.