# Louis Held

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**Carl Heinrich Louis Held** (1 December 1851 – 17 April 1927) was a German [photographer](/source/Photographer) and a pioneer of [photojournalism](/source/Photojournalism).

Held was raised by relatives after the death of his parents in 1860. He first apprenticed in a company producing [silk](/source/Silk) tissues before beginning a second apprenticeship as a photographer.

He opened his first studio in [Liegnitz](/source/Liegnitz) in 1876, moved three years later to [Berlin](/source/Berlin), and again three years later to [Weimar](/source/Weimar). There, he became a [protégé](/source/Prot%C3%A9g%C3%A9) of [Franz Liszt](/source/Franz_Liszt) and was appointed court photographer of [Carl Alexander](/source/Carl_Alexander_of_Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach), grand duke of [Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach](/source/Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach), in 1888. From 1890 on, he travelled throughout Germany, photographing for illustrated magazines.

In 1912, he opened a [cinema](/source/Movie_theater) in Weimar. In 1923, he experimented with color photography.

## References

- [Werkstatt Fotojournalismus](https://www.uni-leipzig.de/~kmw/ws/3-90/repfoto.pdf), University [Leipzig](/source/Leipzig), Winter 2005/2006. URL last accessed April 24, 2006.

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