page_title: Budtz Müller
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Budtz Müller / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Budtz Müller at Bredgade 21 in Copenhagen, Denmark
context_page_description: Bertel Christian Budtz Müller was a pioneering Danish photographer. He operated the photographic studio Budtz Müller & Co. at Bredgade 21 in Copenhagen and was appointed as court photographer in Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
context_section_description: Müller and Benzon opened a shop with photography equipment at Bredgade 21 in 1862. It was converted into a photographic institute with student programmes in 1863. Benzon left the company in 1866. Müller was instead joined by the art historian Philip Weilbach until 1871, and from then on owned Budtz Müller & Co. alone.
  The firm offered a wide selection of high quality stereoscopies and photographs in large and small formats from Copenhagen. Other images were of prominent cultural figures such as Grundtvig, Hans Christian Andersen, actors in costumes, works by Bertel Thorvaldsen and 33 stereoscopies from Greenland recorded in 1866. Other series included Danish monuments (1865-) with text by Weilbach, Knippelsbro (1869), paintings in the Royal Danish Painting Collection at Christiansborg Palace (1869), drawings by Danish and foreign artists (1872), paintings by Danish, Norwegian and Swedish artists (1872), drawings and paintings by Holger Roed (1874), weapons in the Royal Danish Arsenal (1877), and Christiansborg Palace (1884). A folder with 35 images by Haldor Topsøe from Fylla's expedition to Greenland was also published in 1877.
  Budtz Müller collaborated with Jean Christian Ferslew in introducing photolithography to the Danish market and created the first photolithographic maps for the Danish General Staff, as well as a number of reproductions of manuscripts for the Arnamagnæan Institute. Müller and Ferslew published Gotfred af Ghemen's print from 1495 of Den danske Rimkrønike in 1873.
  Budtz Müller was in 1869 appointed as Swedish and Norwegian court photographer and in 1870 also as Danish court photographer. He wrote a number of articles about the history of photography in Den fotografiske Forenings Tidende in 1865.
  Müller's photographic studio in Bredgade was after his death for a few years continued by Ludvig Johan Offenberg (1863-1904) under the name Budtz Müller.
caption: Budtz Müller at Bredgade 21 on a drawing by Knud Gamborg
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