Kristen Schjellerup Feilberg, 1839-1919, fotograf i Kirkehelsinge og Singapore fra 1885

NAVN: Kristen Schjellerup (Chriosten Skjelderup) Feilberg
DATA: Født i Vester Vedsted, 26.8.1839, død i Singapore 12.8.1919
AKTIV: Ca. 1880-1919 ?
ADRESSER: Egebjerg, Ods herred, Holbæk Amt og Kirkehelsinge
UDDANNELSE: Agent for ØK i Tringanu, Malaca
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NOTER: Iflg. Ochsner var Feilberg kun fotograf i Kirke Helsinge fra nov. 1883 til 1885, hvor han udvandrede til Penang. Derefter var han bl.a. fotograf i Singapore.
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KOMMENTARER: Se en meget fornem samling af Feilbergs billeder HER.
Kr. Eskilstrup Kirke. 1870-1880. Fotograf K. Feilberg, Kirke Helsinge. Holbæk-Arkiverne / Tølløse Lokalarkiv
Feilberg, Kristen, Kirkehelsinge. Hejninge kirke med en skoleklasse, fra Hejninge skole. Manden med kryds er førstelærer Andreas Poulsen, som er far til de to piger med kryds. Billedet er i dårlig stand. Det er stærkt gulnet og repareret med tape. Desuden er der sat kryds med kuglepen. Slagelse Lokalarkiv

The Danish photographer Kristen Feilberg, 1839-1919.

Kristen Feilberg or Christen Schjellerup Feilberg (1839–1919) was an early Danish photographer who is known mainly for his images captured far beyond the borders of Denmark. From the 1860s until the 1890s, Feilberg participated in expeditions to Sumatra, Singapore, and Penang. In 1867, he exhibited photos at the Paris World Exposition and around 1870 he joined an expedition to the Batak lands of East Sumatra with the Dutch explorer C. de Haan from which he returned with 45 successful "photogrammes". "Anceaux's Glasses: Anthropological photography since 1860". Retrieved 11 October 2010.

Early life
Kristen Feilberg was born on 26 August 1839 in Vester Vedsted near Ribe in the west of Jutland, Denmark. He was the son of Nikolai Laurentius Feilberg, a well-known cleric, and Conradine Antonette Caroline Købke.[2 "Christen Schjellerup Feilberg + Emma Alice Mac-Intine", Alexander Jensegs slektsdatabase. Retrieved 10 October 2010]. He was trained as a photographer.[3 Peter Beck, "Nikolai Laurentius Feilbergs levnedsløb og kredsen om ham : præst i Vestjylland 1834-47 og i Ullerup på Sundeved 1848-64", Herning: Poul Kristensen, 1981. - 183 pages. ISBN 87-7468-124-9]
Foto: Dayak women from Borneo by Kristen Feilberg (1860s)

After giving up his dream of becoming a painter, he followed his sister to Singapore in 1862 where he worked partly as a tobacco agent and partly as a photographer.[4 Lars Feilberg, Farbror Kristens liv – (Christen S. Feilberg 1839-1919). ISBN 978-87-76-91649-7] In 1864, Feilberg together with August Sachtler took over the photographic studio in Singapore known as Sachtler & Co. Soon afterwards, together with E. Hermann Sachtler, he established a branch office in Penang. In 1867, Feilberg set up his own studio in Penang and, the same year, exhibited 15 views of Penang and Ceylon at the Paris World Exposition.[5 Dirk Janse, "Het Koloniale Album als Verhaal, Beeldvorming in fotoalbums uit Sumatra, 1860-1900", Doctoral thesis University of Utrecht, Summer 2007. (Dutch)] He also produced a 10-part panoramic view of Penang taken from Edinburgh House.
The earliest photographs of eastern Sumatra were taken by Feilberg in 1869. Considered to be of excellent quality, they include integrated group portraits of workers on tobacco plantations such as the one at Arendsburg. They are presented in three albums entitled "Views" at the Royal Tropical Institute.[6 Mattie Boom, "Fotografie in de Sumatra-albums van Paul Sandel", Bulletin van het Rijks Museum, Jaargang 53, 2005, nummer 3. (Dutch) Retrieved 11 October 2010.] In the late 1860s or early 1870s, Feilberg made a photographic tour of Sumatra. In 1867, he was already in Deli and he returned there in 1880.
Kilde: HER.
In September of that year, he joined an expedition with C. de Haan who had been appointed by the Dutch East Indies government to explore the area in the interior around Lake Toba where he photographed the landscape and the Batak people, including the hierarchical princes. Photographing Lake Toba was an achievement akin to the discovery of Lake Victoria in 1858. Despite numerous obstacles, Feilberg was able to record the geography of the region, a feat highly appreciated by de Haan who spoke of the beauty of the landscape.[5 "Tropenmuseum", search page. Retrieved 8 October 2010.]
 In the 1880s, he again worked as a photographer in Singapore.[ He also worked as a buyer for the Danish East Asiatic Company.[3] Some time after 1880, he spent a few years in Denmark where he also worked as a photographer. In 1890, he returned to Singapore where he worked for several photo studios.[5]
He must also have taken part in an expedition to Borneo as evidenced by his photograph (above) of Dayak women from the central area of the island.
Scores of Feilberg's photographs from the collection at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam can be acceed on Wikimedia Commons as well as at the Tropenmuseum itself.[8]
Feilberg died in Singapore in 1919.[5]
On 1 May 1865, Feilberg married Emma Alice Mac-Intine, a Scottish Indonesian with whom he had a daughter, Emma, in George Town, Penang.[2] The mother died shortly after childbirth in March 1866. In 1876, he married Anna Eleonora Sophie Lassen but the marriage was not successful and she returned to Denmark. They had one child, Hjalmar, who was born in 1877 in Medan-Deli, Sumatra but who died at the age of 2 in Holbæk.[3]
 
1.^ "Anceaux's Glasses: Anthropological photography since 1860". Retrieved 11 October 2010.
 2.^ a b "Christen Schjellerup Feilberg + Emma Alice Mac-Intine", Alexander Jensegs slektsdatabase. Retrieved 10 October 2010.
 3.^ a b c Peter Beck, "Nikolai Laurentius Feilbergs levnedsløb og kredsen om ham : præst i Vestjylland 1834-47 og i Ullerup på Sundeved 1848-64", Herning: Poul Kristensen, 1981. - 183 pages. ISBN 87-7468-124-9
 4.^ Lars Feilberg, Farbror Kristens liv – (Christen S. Feilberg 1839-1919). ISBN 978-87-76-91649-7
 5.^ a b c d Dirk Janse, "Het Koloniale Album als Verhaal, Beeldvorming in fotoalbums uit Sumatra, 1860-1900", Doctoral thesis University of Utrecht, Summer 2007. (Dutch)
 6.^ Mattie Boom, "Fotografie in de Sumatra-albums van Paul Sandel", Bulletin van het Rijks Museum, Jaargang 53, 2005, nummer 3. (Dutch) Retrieved 11 October 2010.
 7.^ Khoo Salma Nasution, "More than merchants: a history of the German-speaking community in Penang, 1800s-1940s", Areca Books, 2006, page 34. ISBN 983-42834-1-5.
 8.^ "Tropenmuseum", search page. Retrieved 8 October 2010.
Feilberg, Batak krigere. Kilde:
Kilde, se link ovenfor.
En brevroman om Kristen Feilbergs omskiftelige liv. Han udvandrede som fotograf til Singapore i 1862 efter at have opgivet drømmen om at blive kunstmaler. Frem til sin død i 1919 levede han som fotograf i Danmark, på Sumatra samt som ØK-agent på Malakkahalvøen. Af Lars Feilberg, 2009.