Felix Benedict Herzog

Felix Benedict Herzog (1859-1912) was a US electrical engineer, patent attorney, artist and photographer who discovered "America's First Supermodel" Audrey Munson. His Tale of Isolde established precedent in the US as the first pictorial photograph admitted by an art society on full equality with paintings.

Herzog was born in New York City, December 27, 1859, the son of Philip and Henrietta (Benedict) Herzog. He was a graduate of Columbia University (A.B., 1881, LL.B., 1882. A.M., Ph.D., 1883). He wrote for press, and The Railroad Transportation Problem. He was engaged in practice as patent attorney and electric engineer since 1883. He was the inventor of electrical devices, telephone accessories, automatic switch-boards, the teleseme, police call systems, elevator signals, chemical annunciator as well as other devices, receiving medals at Paris Exposition, 1900 and the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901). He was the president of Herzog Teleseme Company, and other corporations.

Herzog was active in art matters. A painter, he had been a pupil of Frederick Rondel (1826-1892), and was a member of the Art Students League of New York. He was especially interested in photography, technical and artistic. Herzog was the inventor of photographic appliances. He was an exhibitor with Photo-Secession in London, Vienna, Berlin, The Hague, Brussels; exhibited independently in London, World's Fair (Portland), Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.) and Architectural League of New York, where his Tale of Isolde established precedent in the US as the first pictorial photograph admitted by an art society on full equality with paintings.

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