Adolphe Braun
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Jean Adolphe Braun was a French photographer, best known for his floral still lifes, Parisian street scenes, and grand Alpine landscapes.
Adolphe Braun, c. 1860
One of Braun's early Flower studies (1855)
Wellhorn and the Rosenlaui Glacier, photographed by Braun circa 1860
Adolphe Braun, Ezekiel from the Sistine Ceiling by Michelangelo, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC
Mulhouse
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Mulhouse is a French city of the European Collectivity of Alsace. It is near the border with Switzerland and Germany. It is the largest city in Haut-Rhin and second largest in Alsace after Strasbourg.
Adolphe Braun
…the eldest child of Samuel Braun (1785–1877), a police officer, and Marie Antoinette Regard (born 1795). When he was about 10, his family relocated to Mulhouse, a textile manufacturing center in the Alsace region along the Franco-German border. He showed promise as a draftsman, and was sent to Paris in 1828…
Mulhouse, Alsace, Rue du Sauvage
Mulhouse Town hall
St Stephen's Church Mulhouse FRA 001
Mulhouse joining Alsace 100th anniversary medal 1898 by Frédéric Vernon, obverse