AG 36 Jacob Olie Amsterdam around 1900 Calendar 2025 -Bekking & Blitz-XXL

Jacob Olie Amsterdam around 1900 Calendar 2025 – Bekking & Blitz

 

This unique wall calendar, compiled in collaboration with the Amsterdam City Archives, brings the city to life through the lens of Jacob Olie, the famous photographer from the late 19th century.

 

His impressive black and white photos capture the soul of historic Amsterdam and let you enjoy a piece of timeless urban beauty every month.

 

Jacob Olie was a pioneer in the field of photography. Photography was his hobby, because Olie was actually a carpenter, and later a drawing teacher and director of the first Dutch trade school.
He probably took his first photos in the summer of 1861, with a self-built camera.
In that early period he also made this self-portrait with hat, pipe and walking stick, behind a chair with his dog, against a sober background of three white partitions.
In the first years Jacob Olie could not photograph very far from home.
He took his photos then according to the so-called wet collodion process. He placed a wet glass plate in the camera, which he had to develop in his darkroom immediately after taking the picture.
That is why Olie took many portraits of himself and his family at that time, and photos of his own neighbourhood, the Western Islands.
Around 1870, Jacob Olie stopped taking pictures. But when he retired in 1890, he picked up his old hobby again.
He used the same camera, but with a new lens.
Olie now took his pictures with dry gelatin plates. These did not have to be developed immediately, so that he could take pictures everywhere in the city and the surrounding area.
In fifteen years, Jacob Olie took more than three thousand photos of the rapidly changing Amsterdam.

 

Details:

• 12 months
• Language: Dutch
• Wall model with hanging loop
• Monthly overview on 1 page
• Including 12 different images
• Format: 55 x 45 cm
• Weight: 562 gr.