(18 August 1852 – 3 January 1930)
Plüschow moved to Rome and took up photography around the age of twenty, where he became well known for his pictures of naked youths, mostly male. His cousin, the soon more famous Wilhelm von Gloeden, followed him there in 1877, taking up residence first in Naples and later in Taormina, Sicily. Plüschow is said to have taught von Gloeden the art of photography only to be overshadowed by him, which is partly true. Vincenzo Galdi is also closely, even more closely, associated with Plüschow. Twenty years his junior, Galdi worked as a model for both cousins, as an assistant to Plüschow and he was widely believed to be the elder’s lover. Plüschow was imprisoned for eight months in 1902 for solicitation and was arrested again in 1907 and 1910, after which he left Italy for good, returning to Berlin. His photos of male nudes posed in the ruins of Pompeii and environs are perhaps more ghostly than intended and are among my favorite pictures of their kind.
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