German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 68/3. Photo: A. Schmoll, Berlin / Henny Porten-Film. Henny Porten in Violantha (Carl Froehlich, 1927). The film was scripted by Walter Supper, Hans Wilhelm, and Ernst Zahn, and was adapted from the novel 'Der Schatten' (1904) by Ernst Zahn.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 75/3. Photo: A. Schmoll, Berlin / Henny-Porten-Film. Henny Porten in Meine Tante - deine Tante (Carl Froehlich, 1927).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 97/6. Photo: Alex Schmoll, Berlin / HPF (Henny Porten-Froehlich Produktion). Henny Porten in Lotte (Carl Froehlich, 1928).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 100/4. Photo: Atelier Alex. Schmoll, Berlin / Henny Porten-Film. Henny Porten in Zuflucht (Carl Froehlich, 1928).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 122/1. Photo: Henny Porten Freuhlich-Produktion. Henny Porten in Liebe im Kuhstall/Love in the Cowshed (Carl Froelich, 1928).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 126/4. Photo: Atelier Schmoll, Berlin / Nero-Porten-Film. Henny Porten in Kohlhiesels Töchter/Kohlhiesel's Daughters (Hans Behrendt, 1930).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 32/2. Photo: A. Schmoll, Berlin / Henny Porten-Froehlich-Produktion. Henny Porten in Das Abenteuer der Sibylle Brant/The Adventures of Sybil Brent (Carl Froehlich, 1925).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 32/5. Photo: A. Schmoll, Berlin / Henny Porten-Froehlich-Produktion. Henny Porten in Das Abenteuer der Sibylle Brant/The Adventures of Sybil Brent (Carl Froehlich, 1925). The man could be Rudolf Biebrach, who played Sibylle's father in the film.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 52/1. Photo: A. Schmoll, Berlin / Henny Porten-Film. Henny Porten in Rosen aus dem Süden/Roses from the South (Carl Froehlich, 1926).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 52/4. Photo: A. Schmoll, Berlin / Henny Porten-Film. Henny Porten in Rosen aus dem Süden/Roses from the South (Carl Froehlich, 1926). The man is Robert Scholz, who plays the French suitor, Armand Lawrence.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 55/1. Photo: A. Schmoll, Berlin / Henny Porten-Froehlich Produktion. Henny Porten in Wehe, wenn sie losgelassen...!/When She Starts - Look Out! (Carl Froehlich, 1926).
A Berlin master
Alexander Schmoll was born in 1880 in Saarbrücken, Germany. From 1894 Schmoll completed an apprenticeship as a photographer at Leibrock in Saarbrücken.
Already in 1904, Schmoll opened his own Berlin photo studio, at Belle-Alliance-Straße 91. In 1914 he acquired the master's title.
He worked as a set photographer in German cinema from the late 1920s onward. According to Wikipedia, he started in 1927 at the Henny Porten film Violantha (1927), but in fact he worked already in 1925 at Das Abenteuer der Sibylle Brant/The Adventures of Sybil Brent (Carl Froehlich, 1925).
Several more Porten films followed: Lotte, Die grosse Pause, Meine Tante, deine Tante, Liebe und Diebe, Zuflucht, Wehe, wenn sie losgelassen...!, Kohlhiesels Töchter, Mutterliebe, and Skandal um Eva - right into the early sound era.
Also, Schmoll made many studio portraits. He portrayed well-to-do families but also many stage and screen actors, such as Heinz Rühmann, Rudolf Platte, Gustav Knuth, Heinrich George, Grethe Weiser, and Brigitte Horney.
Alex Schmoll died somewhere between 1943-1945, but no exact date is known. His last film credit was the war film Spähtrupp Hallgarten (Herbert B. Fredersdorf, 1941).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 55/2. Photo: A. Schmoll, Berlin / Henny Porten-Froehlich Produktion. Henny Porten and Angelo Ferrari in Wehe, wenn sie losgelassen...!/When She Starts - Look Out! (Carl Froehlich, 1926).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 68/2. Photo A. Schmoll, Berlin / Henny Porten-Film. Henny Porten and Inge Landgut in Violantha (Carl Froehlich, 1927).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 75/1 Photo: A. Schmoll, Berlin / Henny-Porten-Film. Henny Porten in Meine Tante - deine Tante (Carl Froehlich, 1927).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 75/5. Photo: A. Schmoll, Berlin / Henny Porten-Froehlich Produktion. Henny Porten and Angelo Ferrari in Meine Tante - deine Tante (Carl Froehlich, 1927).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 92/1. Photo: Alex Schmoll, Berlin / Henny Porten-Froehlich Produktion. Henny Porten in Liebe und Diebe (Carl Froehlich, 1928).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 92/2. Photo Alex Schmoll, Berlin / Henny Porten-Froehlich Produktion. Henny Porten in a double role in Liebe und Diebe (Carl Froehlich, 1928).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 97/1. Photo: Alex Schmoll, Berlin / HPF (Henny Porten-Froehlich Produktion). Henny Porten and Lotte Werkmeister in Lotte (Carl Froehlich, 1928).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 97/3. Photo: Alex Schmoll, Berlin / HPF (Henny Porten-Froehlich Produktion). Henny Porten, Ralph Arthur Roberts, Walter Jankuhn, and Hermann Vallentin in Lotte (Carl Froehlich, 1928). Lotte, a young woman from an aristocratic background, masquerades as a poor person, so she may look all the better when becoming a count's bride.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 100/2. Photo: Alex. Schmoll / HPF (Henny Porten Film). Henny Porten and Franz Lederer in Zuflucht/Refuge (Carl Froelich, 1928).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 126/1. Photo: Atelier Schmoll, Berlin / Nero-Porten-Film. Henny Porten in Kohlhiesels Töchter/Kohlhiesel's Daughters (Hans Behrendt, 1930).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 126/3. Photo: Atelier Schmoll, Berlin / Nero-Porten-Film. Henny Porten and Fritz Kampers in Kohlhiesels Töchter/Kohlhiesel's Daughters (Hans Behrendt, 1930).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 6059/4, 1931-1932. Photo: Alex Schmoll, Berlin / Henny-Porten-Filmproduktion.
Sources: Wikipedia (German), and IMDb. For more postcards with photos by Alexander Schmoll, check out our Flickr album.
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