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leopold hugo, monterey cypress trees, photo #96-025-0002 post card back post card front # 88-080-0248
Sea gules on beach
Real photo postcard by Hugo
# 88-080-0248

California Pictorialist

Leopold Hugo

Accession Number # 96-025-0002
Photo by Leopold Hugo
6x8 Print
Circa 1918

This view of Monterey Cypress trees on the rocky coatline, looking south over Carmel Bay on the 17 Mile Drive in Pebble Beach.
This print is typical of the soft-focus pictorial work that was in at the turn of the 20th century.
leopold hugo signature
From the above print
leopold hugo art rooms
From back of postcard
Monterey Cypress trees on the rocky shores of the 17 Mile Drive, looking South over Carmel Bay
Leopold Hugo was born in Breslau, Germany on December 24, 1866.
He married Miss. Emma Pauline Miller "1868-1959" in San Antonio, Texas on November 3ed of 1892.
He was first listed in the San Diego city directory as "hugo, levi dry good store" in La Jolla in 1908 just North of San Diego.
It was not til 1911 that we find him listed as a photographer. In 1917 he moved North to Santa Cruz on the Monterey Bay staying for only a year before moving to Pacific Grove on the Monterey Peninsula on the other side on Monterey Bay from Santa Cruz.
Staying in Pacific Grove only til August 15, 1919 when he sold his stock to another local photograpger Dan Freeman also of Pacific Grove before; leaving for New York.
From 1921-1927 he was back in Santa Cruz with a photo shop at 10 Pacific Street.
On October 11th of 1929 he opened a photographic art room at 1025 Prospect Street, La Jolla with an exhibit of his marine views and landscapes. Pictorialism is an early twentieth-century movement that had as its goal the romantic expression. He died in Belton, Texas on September 7, 1933 at the age of 66.
Holdings: We have 122 photos and real photo postcards by Leopold Hugo in the photo collection.
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