Adolphe Braun, French, 1812-1877 Adolphe Braun, a French textile designer born in Besançon and trained in Paris, opened his own studio in Dornach, Alsace, before becoming involved in photography in the early 1850s. He produced several early floral textile designs that were published as lithographs. In 1853, Braun began work on a large album of some 300 photographic still-life studies of flowers,