Theodor Thorlacius Bloch, 1844-1935, dansk fotograf i New Zealand og Australien
NAVN: Theodor Thorlacius Bloch
DATA: 1844-1935
AKTIV: 1864-1935
ADRESSER: 1865-1865 Danmark og Bornholm
New Zealand, Australien
I Danmark igen i 1873-1875
Australien
UDDANNELSE: Læreruddannet, sekondløjtnant, rejsefotograf
NOTER: Se de mange oplysninger, bl.a. fra familien i Australien, herunder.
ARKIV: Samlinger i Australien, jvnf. herunder.
DATA: 1844-1935
AKTIV: 1864-1935
ADRESSER: 1865-1865 Danmark og Bornholm
New Zealand, Australien
I Danmark igen i 1873-1875
Australien
UDDANNELSE: Læreruddannet, sekondløjtnant, rejsefotograf
NOTER: Se de mange oplysninger, bl.a. fra familien i Australien, herunder.
ARKIV: Samlinger i Australien, jvnf. herunder.
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Født i Lønborg ved Ringkøbing Fjord. Læreruddannet. Sekondløjtnant i krigen 1864. Var i sommeren 1865 sammen med vennen Johan Hansen fra Als på tur på Bornholm som omrejsende fotografer.
Rejste i november 1865 med faderens ven, biskop og statsminister under krigen, D.G. Monrad, til New Zealand. Overtog et fotoatelier i Hardy Street, Nelson i 1867, kaldte det "Nelson Photographic Institute". Deltog i krigen mod maorierne på Nordøen i 1868 og kunne senere tilbyde billeder herfra, bl.a. af nogle af de omkomne officerer. Åbnede sidst i 1868 fotoatelier i Trafalgar-street. Bloch var sammen med vennen William Gibbs i Victoria i Australien i 1872, hvor de bl.a. fotograferede guldgravere. I 1873 fotograferede de i Jylland efter at have været i London, og i 1875 blev søsteren, Gytha Bloch gift med Gibbs, hvorefter de rejste til New Zealand. I februar 1876 åbnede de: "English and Continental Photographic Atelier", som de drev i fællesskab til 1878. I 1881 solgte Bloch sit atelier i Nelson og flyttede til Australien, hvor han bl.a. var boghandler i Melbourne. Han døde i Korumburra, Victoria, Australien i 1935. Theodor Bloch, f. i Lønborg, død i Bena, Victoria, Australien.
Bror til fotograf Gytha Bloch. Elev på Blaagaards Seminarium, deltog som officersaspirant i krigen 1864 og blev udnævnt til sekondløjtnant. Han rejste i november 1865 med faderens ven, D.G. Monrad til New Zealand, hvor han deltog i krigen mod maorierne. Hotelforpagter i Port Albert, Victoria, fotograf i Nelson, New Zealand, ca. 1868-1881. Boghandler (og fotograf) i Melbourne til ca. 1884, derefter landmand. Theodor Bloch blev Ridder af Dannebrog 30. november 1927 for sin deltagelse i krigen 1864. (Kilde delvis Ochsner). |
Gytha Bloch var datter af provst Bloch, Vig. Foto har følgende hilsen bagpå: "Med kjærlig Hilsen og Tak for al Venlighed Gytha Bloch"
Gytha Bloch er fotograferet af sin bror Theodor Bloch. Gytha Bloch omtales som fotograf. Hun døde i Helsingør, jvnf. avisnotis nederst på denne side. Odsherred Lokalarkiv. |
(De sort plancher er fra et foredrag jeg holdt i 2012 om danske fotografer i udlandet). Historien kort om Theodor Bloch.
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Oplysninger fra Blochs familie, september 2019:
Thank you for such a wonderful website about Theodor Bloch. He is my great-grandfather on my mother's side and my cousins and I still have many personal photographs that he took of the Bloch family. Later in life he spent time as a publican of the Red Hill Hotel in Chewton, Victoria where his wife - Edith Lena Mary (nee Lawson) died in 1916. He also had two sons who fought in WW1 - Victor & Charles (my grand-father). His last years were spent in Victoria at the home of one of his married daughters. When he died in 1935, he was buried in the Chewton cemetery in a grave with Edith. Best Regards, Tony Hall |
Nelson Provincial Museum
Theodor Bloch was a highly acclaimed photographer in Nelson who specialised in studio portraits and scenic photographs from 1868-1881. Theodor was an interesting character with an obvious love of adventure and the arts. Bloch was knighted for his role as a lieutenant in the 1864 war against Prussia and Austria. He then emigrated to New Zealand with Bishop Ditlev Gothard Monrad who was disgraced at being defeated in the war. Bloch settled in Nelson and opened his own photographic studio in 1868. He returned to Denmark to visit his dying mother and on the return home stopped at Port Albert in Victoria Australia, where he married Edith Lawson and brought her back to Nelson. Shortly after returning he opened a studio named “English and Continental Photographic Artists” in partnership with William Brickell Gibbs, who had married Bloch’s sister in Denmark. Bloch’s career as a photographer in Nelson was only a short fifteen years but in that time he established himself as a respected artist. In 1881 he packed up his life once again and settled in Victoria, perhaps to be closer to Edith’s family. The Museum holds over 2,500 of Bloch’s portraits and original prints in the Theodore Bloch Collection which you can view online HER. |
Theodor Bloch, Als - løjtnant i 1864 - og fotograf?
3. Infanteriregiments officerskorps på Als ved Sprang kro 28. 6. 1864 få timer før kampen 29. 6. 1864. KB. Foto Th. Bloch (?). Original findes hos:, Hærens Arkiv København, Schloß Glücksburg og Gads Danske Magasin 1912/13, s. 736. Kilde KB HER.
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Personer på billedet:
Bloch, Th., Sekondløjtnant. Drastrup, A. H., Premierløjtnant. Buchhave, W. E., Sekondløjtnant. Hansen, A. P., Sekondløjtnant. Bruhn, J. D., Sekondløjtnant. Falkenskjold, A. V., Premierløjtnant. Berzelius, H. W., Sekondløjtnant, svensk frivillig. Cour, J. C. la, Sekondløjtnant. Moltke, A. A. F., Kaptajn. Nylander, K., Premierløjtnant, svensk frivillig. Svane, L. C., Kaptajn. |
Scharnowsky, A. A., Sekondløjtnant.
Meinertz, C. H., Sekondløjtnant. Theill, C. E. J. W., Sekondløjtnant. Schlegel, J. G. F., Sekondløjtnant. Liebe, P. B. T., Overlæge. Nordenfalk, O. W. C. J., Sekondløjtnant, svensk frivillig. Gerlach, L., Sekondløjtnant. Hansen, E. F., Premierløjtnant. Fogh, E. F. G., Kaptajn. Færch, N. A., Sekondløjtnant. Lundbye, I. E., Premierløjtnant. |
Leth, C. F., Sekondløjtnant.
Bilsted, H. F., Sekondløjtnant. Schöning, O. A., Kaptajn. Mathiesen, H. W., Oberstløjtnant. Krabbe, O. J. H., Kaptajn. Einersen, C. F., Sekondløjtnant. Madsen, J. C. C., Premierløjtnant. Kohl, G. E. T., Sekondløjtnant. Walter, B. D. M., Premierløjtnant. Cour, N. la, Sekondløjtnant. Larsen, J., Sekondløjtnant. Hindenburg, J. C. F. C., Sekondløjtnant. Rothe, W. H., Sekondløjtnant. |
Gruppebillede af officerer foran hus, 1864. 3. Infanteri Regiment Officerskorpset Gruppebillede. Kilde KB HER.
Personerne: J.B. la Cour. Drastrup. Laub. H.H. Rothe. Fogh. Niels la Cour. Schlegel. Th. Bloch.
Personerne: J.B. la Cour. Drastrup. Laub. H.H. Rothe. Fogh. Niels la Cour. Schlegel. Th. Bloch.
Rejsefotograf på Bornholm "Hansen & Bloch" sommeren 1865
Se mere mere HER.
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Eksempler på Hansen & Blochs visitkortfotos. Se meget mere på den bornholmske hjemmeside om fotografer. Link som ovenfor: HER.
I Danmark i 1873-1875 (?) sammen med vennen Gibbs og søsteren Gytha Bloch
Vig Kirke, visitkort. Foto Bloch & Gibbs, rejsefotografer i 1870'erne. Odsherred Lokalarkiv. Kilde: Arkiv.dk.
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Jørgen Victor Bloch var Theodor Blochs far og sognepræst i Vig og Nr. Asmindrup fra 1868 til 1881. Han var kun 20 år, da han tog embedseksamen og giftede sig med Agathe Thollasius. Ægteparret fik 10 børn. Til højre Vig kirkes indre. Bloch & Gibbs. Odsherred Lokalarkiv
Rejsefotograf bl.a. med bopæl i Skanderborg 1873
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Familien Kuhlmann, Adelgade 35, Skanderborg.
(I midten bag kaffemaskinen fru fabrikant Julie Rafn f. Kuhlmann, t.v. gamle Fru. Kulhmann, f. Vilhelmine v. Frohboese. Fra v. overlærer Gustav Selshau samt forlovede frk. Thora Kuhlmann. Th. Julie Rafn. Dr. Carl Kuhlmann samt forlovede frk Sofie Roested. Bagved frk. Eleonora Roested, siddende distriktslæge Chr. Kuhlmann. Børnene Anna, Agathe og Chr.). Foto Bloch & Gibbs. 1873. Skanderborg Historiske Arkiv. Kilde arkiv.dk. Skanderborg 1. maj 1873 (gentaget 3., 6. og 8. maj).
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Theodor Bloch i New Zealand & Australien 1866-1935
Bloch og Gibbs havde et samarbejde i nogle år. Gibbs blev gift med Theodor Blochs søster i Danmark i 1875.
Theodor Bloch var fotograf i Nelson, New Zealand 1868-1881.
Søsteren Gytha Bloch døde i 1895 - efterkommere
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Berlingske Tidende 3. januar 1895:
Alle og Enhver, som maatte have noget at fordre i Boet efter afdøde Frøken Gytha Bloch - i hvilket Bo Arv og Gjæld ikke er vedgaaet - indkaldes herved med 6 Maaneders Varsel til for undertegnede Skifteret at anmelde og beviisliggjøre deres Krav. Ligesaa indkaldes med samme Varsel Afdødes Arvinger, specielt Broderen Photograph Theodor Bloch, der skal opholde sig i Colac i Provindsen Victoria, Australien, og Betzy Hedevig Agathe Gibbs, Datter af afdødes Søster Cecilie, J. Bloch, i hendes Ægteskab med Assuranceagent William Brieckle Gibbs, der ligeledes opholder sig i Australien, til at melde sig paa Skiftet og varetage deres Tarv under Boets behandling. Helsingørs Skifteret den 28de December 2895. Rosenstand. Høst. |
Everybody and anyone who may have something to claim in the estate of the late Miss Gytha Bloch - in which estate inheritance and debt is not acknowledged - is hereby summoned at six months' notice to sign and substantiate their claim.
Likewise, with the same notice, heirs of the deceased are summoned, in particular the brother Photograph Theodor Bloch, who is to reside in Colac in the province of Victoria, Australia, and Betzy Hedevig Agathe Gibbs, daughter of the deceased's sister Cecilie, J. Bloch, in her marriage to insurance Agent William Brieckle Gibbs , who are also residing in Australia, to register for the shift and take care of their interests during the processing of the estate.
Helsingørs Probate on December 28, 2895. Rosenstand. Harvest.
Tony Hall: "Betsy Hedevig Agathe GIBBS, daughter of..." was the only daughter of William and Gytha Gibbs (she lived and died in New Zealand from 1880-to 1958) and her nickname was "Toppy".
Likewise, with the same notice, heirs of the deceased are summoned, in particular the brother Photograph Theodor Bloch, who is to reside in Colac in the province of Victoria, Australia, and Betzy Hedevig Agathe Gibbs, daughter of the deceased's sister Cecilie, J. Bloch, in her marriage to insurance Agent William Brieckle Gibbs , who are also residing in Australia, to register for the shift and take care of their interests during the processing of the estate.
Helsingørs Probate on December 28, 2895. Rosenstand. Harvest.
Tony Hall: "Betsy Hedevig Agathe GIBBS, daughter of..." was the only daughter of William and Gytha Gibbs (she lived and died in New Zealand from 1880-to 1958) and her nickname was "Toppy".
Familiearkivet i Australien
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Pictures belong to - and comments by Tony Hall:
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A family photo of Theodor and Edith Lena Mary (nee Lawson) with their sons & daughters at Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria, Australia.
There exists a small business card which indicates that Edith was the proprietoress of a country guest house in this hillside area (outside of Melbourne, Victoria), and there are a number of photos of their stay here around 1902 to 1905. They had a large family and so the family history memorabilia is spread across a large number of cousins & second cousins! |
This is a formal photograph of Theodor Bloch. When Theodor was knighted K.D. (we have the notification somewhere too), his son Charles arranged an enlargement of this photograph and had an artist paint a copy of the decoration onto his lapel. This was framed and hung over Charlie & Elsie's fireplace in Tenterfield, NSW. My mum used to take us to visit them on Christmas holidays during the 1950's and 1960's. We know that the actual award/decoration had to be returned to Denmark on Theodor's death
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