His pictures - often with religious motifs - were mostly rejected. This is also supported by the fact that Baldus made confusing information about his origin: Sometimes he named Germany, sometimes France and sometimes the USA as the country of his birth, and he gave 1815 as the year of birth.įrom 1841 on, he regularly submitted paintings to the annual Paris Art Salon for ten years. Presumably this made up résumé was given by him to cover up his past in Germany. He told of his exhibitions in Antwerp, of a tour of the USA as a portrait painter, but there is no evidence of this today. He wanted to study art, but quickly switched to practice. He adapted his first name to the French spelling "Édouard".
Path to becoming a successful photographer in France What he took with him was his first practical experience in printing technology. There he came into conflict with the law, was accused of "making and distributing false cash register instructions" (counterfeiting), evaded the investigation that had been initiated against him and the threatened death penalty by fleeing and was therefore registered in the entire Rhine province in the spring of 1835 searched. Only recent research by Peter Lindlein has shed light on this darkness and at least partially revealed Baldus' long-kept secret: In the early 1830s he was a soldier (Bombardier) in the Prussian army in the Rhine province in Cologne. Nothing is known about Edward's childhood and youth in Grünebach, whose everyday life was shaped by agriculture and the Grünebacher Hütte and until recently, "the first 25 years of his life were considered a mystery." He was born on Junder the name Eduard Baldus as the son of Johann Peter Baldus and his wife Elisabeth in Grünebach (at the time the Duchy of Nassau, now Rhineland-Palatinate).
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