Johann Baptist Isenring

Johann Baptist Isenring was born in 1796 in Switzerland. Isenring studied at the Munich Academy and originally was a carpenter. He was a painter, printmaker, and deguerreotypist. Im the early 1840's Isenring produced the first colored deguerreotypes using a mixture of gum arabic and pigments and applying heat. He died in 1860.




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