Photographic studio, located at Vienna I, Opernring 1 (Kärntnerstraße 42), close to the Vienna State Opera. The studio still exists, under the name Foto Fayer, at A‒101 Vienna, Opernring 6.

Karl Pietzner (1853‒1927) and Georg Fayer (1892‒1950) were internationally celebrated photographers at the time, owning studios in a number of cities. The Ringstraße studio seems to have been established in 1926, those responsible being Georg and Sonja Fayer. In the 1930s, the studio was doing not only photography of many kinds but also cinematography and certain kinds of painting.

Atelier Pietzner-Fayer and Schenker

The studio was hired by the committee of the Beethoven Centennial Celebration of March 26‒30, 1927 to create a photographic record in the form of an album of portraits of all the participants, including those of the conference that was held in conjunction with the celebration. Since Schenker had been invited to serve as a member of the executive committee, and also to give a paper, he was included in the invitation to be photographed, and so received a letter from the studio (OJ 11/1, [1], May 10, 1927), to which he replied that he did not belong in the album. — In November 1928, Jeanette Schenker had photographic portraits of herself done at the studio.

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