Successive number:
030/KK
PLACE:
Nesseltal
EVENT:
-
DATE:
1928
ANNOUNCE:
Die HeiMAT Koprivnik … a beautiful village this used to be. 2006.
PUBLISHER:
-
PHOTOGRAPHER:
Josef Dornig, Junior
NOTES:
photo postcard
Josef
Dornig
Junior
was
born
in
1904
in
Brooklyn,
in
the
city
of
New
York.
When
he
was
six
years
old
his
family
returned
to
Kočevje,
where
his
father
bought
an
inn.
Love
for
photography
was
in
the
family,
his
father
Josef
was
an
amateur
photographer
after
all.
Because
of
this
Josef
Junior,
despite
being
a
musician
by
education,
decided
for
the
profession
of
photography.
At
the
address
Gottschee
181
(12
Cankar
St)
he
had
a
photographic
studio.
He
was
a
recognized,
very
advanced
photographer,
who
developed
special
retouching
techniques.
In
the
mid
twenties
of
the
previous
century
he
published
his
photographs
in
the
Gottscheer
Kalender.
The
postcard
of
Koprivnik was published in 1928. During WWII many of his photographs were lost. He died in Graz, Austria, in 1983.
vasja.marinc@kocevska.com, junij 2020