North American Indians
Portraits of members of the Nez Percé tribe and the Colville tribe
Los 4051 [*]
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620€ (US$ 667)
Photographer unknown. Portrait of Indians of the Nez Percé tribe and the Colville tribe. Circa 1900. 4 sepia toned gelatin silver prints on doubleweight chamois paper. 34 x 21 cm and some smaller. Each mounted along upper edge to brown card and annotated in ink on mount under photo.
The images show the Indians in their traditonal costumes including an Indian chief of the Colville with his wife, a young Buck with a flute in Hereditary robes, a mother and child of the Nez Percé tribe and a fortune teller. – Strong tonal prints in very good condition.
Oppenheim, F. August
West portal of the Frauenkirche in Nuremberg
Los 4052
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992€ (US$ 1,067)
West portal of the Frauenkirche in Nuremberg. Circa 1854. Large-format albumen print from a paper negative. 32 x 26 cm. Mounted to original board (slightly soiled, some traces of use), photographer's blindstamp, which is stamped over by the publisher H.(einrich) Schrag in lower right corner on the mount.
Oppenheim was one of the first German photographers to work with the calotype process. He learned the process with Gustave Le Gray and already used it in 1852 while in Spain. One year later he photographed the Acropolis and as of 1854 he worked in southern Germany. Oppenheim's photographic oeuvre is very small and only a few photographs have survived - very rare! – Minimal fading in edges, otherwise in very good condition with strong tones.
Ottoman Empire
Portraits of people of the Ottoman Empire
Los 4053
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9.300€ (US$ 10,000)
Photographers: Abdullah Frères and Alphonse Rubellin. Attractive portrait album showing a wide range of people living in the Ottoman Empire. 1860s-1880s. 103 cartes-de-visite albumen prints, all with early photographer's logo (some hand-stamped), address and name and most titled and numbered in ink in contemporary hand on mount verso, inserted in album window mat boards (some damaged, slightly soiled), bound in contemporary tooled leather album (rubbed) with brass and glass ornaments (some missing) and brass clasp.
This extensive collection of cartes-de-visite portraits documents the vast cultural and ethnic diversity in the Ottoman Empire. 64 cartes-de-visite show various peoples of the Empire. Among them are Afghan, Algerian, Georgian, Greek, Persian, Turkish and Jewish people. Also includes a wide range of street sellers with their goods, beggars, warriors, Orthodox priests and other high-ranking persons such as Kececizade Mehmed Fuad Pasha (1814-1869). – Some faded, some light scuff marks, otherwise most in very good condition.
Lit.: Bahattin Öztuncay. The Photographers of Constantinople. Pioneers, studios and artists from 19th century Istanbul. Istanbul 2006 (2nd edition), ill. p. 380 and compare 494-499 (street sellers).
Photographer: Adolphe Braun (1812-1877). Paris Commune. 1870/71. 15 albumen prints. Each circa 25,5 x 20 cm and 20 x 25,5 cm. Each mounted to board (slightly soiled, time-stained in edges), with photographer's name and title Paris - 1871 printed in red below/above the image on mount.
The images show the ruins of the Palais des Tuileries (7), Château St. Cloud (4), Château d'Issy, Hotel de Ville (Paris), Château de Meudon, Caisse des Dépots, all heavily destroyed by fire. – Some surface scuff marks, many with strong contrasts and in very good condition.
Lit.: Ulrich Pohlmann/Paul Mellenthin (eds.). Adolphe Braun. Ein europäisches Photographie-Unternehmen und die Bildkünste im 19. Jahrhundert. Munich 2017, ill. pp. 270-277 (images from the same series and ill p. 275.)
Views of Venice. Early 1860s. 4 albumen prints and 3 salt prints. Various sizes, most circa 23 x 28 cm. Each mounted to board (slightly soiled), 3 with photographer's blindstamp and 3 annotated in ink below the image on the mount.
Some faded in edges, otherwise many with strong contrasts and in very good condition.
Portrait Album
Commemorative portrait album
Los 4056
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2.728€ (US$ 2,933)
Commemorative portrait album. June 22, 1855. 16 salt prints. Each circa 17 x 13 cm. Each mounted in ornamental paper mat and bound in gilt-edged contemporary brown full leather gilt-tooled album with gilt-stamped caption Unserem Theuren Vater zum 22. Juni 1855 (edges minimally rubbed, spine loose from cover) on front cover, with silk fly leaves/endpapers.
The sitters in this album apparently belonged to a wealthy family (many are annotated in pencil on verso with sitters' names). This is also indicated by the album's opulence and the very fine portraits, which are unusually large for this time. – Some leaves loose, some photos breaking out of paper mat in areas. On the whole rich beautiful salt prints, many highlighted and finely overpainted by hand, most in near excellent condition in a well preserved album. Rare in this quality and condition.
Unknown photographer. Sámi family in front of their home. 1890s. Large-format collodion paper prrint. 23 x 29 cm.
Small backed tear in lower edge, a few minimal surface abrasions, otherwise in very good condition. With: Photochrome of Sami family in front of their home. 1890s. 16,5 x 22,5 cm.
Schaarwächter, Julius Cornelius
Group portrait of Emperor Wilhelm II's family
Los 4058
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223€ (US$ 240)
Group portrait of Emperor Wilhelm II with his family.1896. Platinum print on Photo.Crayon paper. 20 x 12,5 cm. Mounted to original studio board with photographer's name printed below the image and signed and dated by Empress Augusta Victoria in pencil on the mount.
Schaarwächter already learned his trade from his father, as well as at the Gewerbeakademie with Hermann Vogel in Berlin. Since 1889, he held the title of "Hofphotograph seiner Majestät des Kaisers und Königs und Ihre Königlichen Hoheit der Frau Erbprinzessin von Sachsen-Meinigen, Prinzessin von Preußen". During the 1880s/90s, he was the most successful portrait photographer in Berlin. – In very good condition.
Nuremberg castle. 1850. Salt print. 25 x 20 cm. Mounted to board (slightly soiled), annotated in pencil below the image on mount.
Presumably inspired by the architectural drawings and etchings of the Nuremberg priest Christoph Jacob Wilder, Georg Schmidt began training at the Nuremberg Art School between 1828-1831 and he completed his schooling at the Munich Art Academy. From 1839 he settled in Nuremberg as an art and portrait painter. In 1846 he also set up a photographic studio and as of 1852 he referred to himself only as a photographer. The atmospheric salt paper prints by Georg Schmidt offered here and in the following two lots 4060-4061 are therefore among the earliest photographic city views of Nuremberg and are very rare today. – Fading in edges, otherwise in good condition.
Schmidt, Georg
Southern access to Nuremberg castle
Los 4060 [*]
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1.240€ (US$ 1,333)
Southern access to Nuremberg castle. 1850. Salt print. 21 x 28,5 cm.
Some handling marks, otherwise in very good condition.
Schmidt, Georg
Der Henkersteg, Nuremberg
Los 4061 [*]
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2.232€ (US$ 2,400)
Der Henkersteg, Nuremberg. 1850/52. 2-part panorama, 1 salt print, 1 albumen print. Each circa 25 x 20,5 cm.
The two photos offered here are not mounted together, but side by side they comprise a panoramic view. – Some handling marks, otherwise in very good condition.
Photographer: Robert Lenz (1864-1939). Views of Siam. 1890-1900. 22 vintage platinum prints. Most circa 28,5 x 22,5 cm. Some with title and number in the negative in lower edge in the negative, most annotated in pencil on the verso.
This extensive collection of views of Siam mostly shows temples, pagodas, gardens in and around Bangkok, the Royal district and other architectural structures, such as the Wat Suthat, Wat Phrah Prang Luang, Wat Phra Keo, Stupa of Nakhon Pathom, Nat Cheng courtyard, Buddha gallery at Wat Poh, Chinese cabinet in Wat Suthat, view of the Khlong Bang Luang and parts of the King's Palace. Also includes images of the Royal Barges, one image of ceremonial Siamese dancers and a group of Siamese youths. – Some corners bumped, some with time-staining in edges, some with slight nicks in edges, otherwise in good to very good condition with strong contrasts.
Lit.: Joachim K. Bautze. Unseen Siam: Early Photography 1860 - 1910. Bangkok 2016, ill. p. 314, plate 63 and other comparable images.
Photographer: Joseph Tairraz (1827-1902). Views of the Swiss Alps. 1870s. 10 albumen prints. Each circa 13 x 21,5 cm. 6 signed by the photographer in the negative, mounted to album boards on one side of album page, bound in contemporary blue canvas album (edges rubbed, slight soiling) with gilt-stamped title Souvenir de Chamonix on front cover.
The Tairraz family of Chamonix produced several generations of Alpine photographers. In 1857 Joseph Tairraz began taking daguerrotypes and took the first photographs at the summit of Mont Blanc in 1860. He provided tourists and mountaineers with souvenir portraits and mountain views. His son Georges, who was an apprentice to Pierre Petit in Paris, took over the studio circa 1882, which was then called "Tairraz Alpine Photographic Studio". The studio continued throughout the 20th century. – Some faded, some light surface scuffing, some with retouched spots, otherwise in good to very good condition.
Photographer: Scherer, Nabholz & Co. (1863-1918). Leo Tolstoy. 1894. Albumen print. 16 x 10,5 cm. Mounted to cabinet card with photographer's name and logo below the image on the mount; Russian logo on verso.
Some light surface scuffing, otherwise in good condition.
Various travel album views. 1860s-1870s. 11 albumen prints (2 hand-colored). Each circa 16 x 23 cm and larger. Each mounted to board, annotated in ink below images on mount.
A diverse collection of views including Saigon (Emile Gsell), a Japanese geisha, Niagara Falls, Marseilles, Seebad Treport, the U.S.S. Nevada (New Zealand), Cannes, Mentone, Vienna and Coburg. Also includes a hand-colored reproduction of a painting. – Some with soiling spots, one with glued torn area, otherwise most in very good condition and with strong contrasts.
Tripe, Linnaeus
No. 64. Amerapoora. Mohdee Kyoung
Los 4070
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1.240€ (US$ 1,333)
"No. 64. Amerapoora. Mohdee Kyoung". 1855. Salt print from a waxed paper negative. 26 x 34 cm. Signed by the photographer in ink in lower right corner, mounted to original album page (slightly buckled/fold marks), printed paper label with title and number below the image on the mount.
Tripe took the first photographs of Burma and used a large-format 15 x 12 inch camera. His architectural and topographical views are of great documentary importance as they are among the earliest surviving photographs of Burma. Some of his waxed paper negatives are in the collection of the Royal Photographic Society. – A few light spots in sky area, otherwise in very good condition.
Agfa-Gevaert Sample Book
Sample album of Agfa-Gevaert photo paper
Los 4071
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992€ (US$ 1,067)
Sample album of various Agfa-Gevaert photographic papers. 1950s. 48 vintage gelatin silver prints (most ferrotyped) on Agfa-Brovira, Grandamo, Scenario, Portriga-Rapid, Syntobrom, Verda, Record and Lupex papers. Various sizes between circa 17,5 x 14 cm. Each with left and lower white margin with paper type in lower margin, bound with punch holes in left side in original plastic binder.
Agfa-Gevaert used the negatives of many well-known German photographers such as Peter Keetman, Herbert List, Alfred Ehrhardt to demonstrate the various photo paper qualities the firm produced. An attractive collection showing the subtle differences in photo paper available at the time. – Photos in very good condition.
Adams, Ansel
Moon and Half Dome - Yosemite National Park, California
Los 4072
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4.216€ (US$ 4,533)
"Moon and Half Dome - Yosemite National Park, California". 1960/printed 1991 from the original negative by Alan Ross. Gelatin silver print. 23,5 x 19 cm. Mounted in original mat. Special Edition, Photographs of Yosemite By Ansel Adams stamp with title on mat verso.
A fine tonal print in excellent condition.
Adams, Ansel
Half Dome, Merced River, Winter - Yosemite National Park, California
Los 4073
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1.488€ (US$ 1,600)
"Half Dome, Merced River, Winter - Yosemite National Park, California". 1938/printed 1991 from the original negative by Alan Ross. Gelatin silver print. 19,5 x 24,5 cm. Mounted in original mat. Special Edition, Photographs of Yosemite By Ansel Adams stamp with title on mat verso.
A fine tonal print in excellent condition.
Almodóvar, Pedro
Penélope Cruz as Marilyn Monroe
Los 4074
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2.356€ (US$ 2,533)
Penélope Cruz as Marilyn Monroe. 2008. Chromogenic print on Fujicolor Professional paper. 37 x 26 cm. Signed by the photographer in ink in lower portion within image.
Two minimal handling marks in lower left and one in mid right, otherwise in near excellent condition.
"Ramification 1". 1998. Vintage large-format photogravure. 140 x 110 cm. Signed, dated and annotated Unikat by the photographer in pencil below the image in the margin, mounted under glass in solid wooden frame.
An unusually large photogravure of outstanding print quality. – In excellent condition.
Architecture & Design
Werkbundausstellung: Weissenhof-Siedlung, Stuttgart
Los 4078
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1.860€ (US$ 2,000)
Photographer: H.A. Rühl and Curt Rehbein. Werkbundausstellung: Weissenhof-Siedlung, Stuttgart, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. 1925/26. 2 vintage gelatin silver prints. 16,5 x 22,8 cm and 14,4 x 22,4 cm. Each with photographer's stamp on the verso, each framed under museum glass in fine wooden frame.
The photos show the first and second clay model of the distribution of building cubes for the planned Weißenhofsiedlung, Stuttgart from two vantage points. – In very good condition (not examined outside frames).
Lit.: Helmut Reuter and Birgit Schulte (eds.): Mies und das Neue Wohnen. Räume, Möbel. Fotografie.Ostfildern 2008, ill. 216, p. 222.
Architecture & Design
Interior of the German Pavilion at the World's Fair in Barcelona
Los 4081
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2.480€ (US$ 2,667)
Photographer: Sasha Stone (1895-1940). Interior of the German Pavilion at the World's Fair in Barcelona, designed by Mies van der Rohe. 1929. Vintage gelatin silver print. 16 x 22,7 cm. Berliner Bild Bericht agency stamp on the verso, framed under museum glass in fine wooden frame.
View of the spectacular interior of the Barcelona Pavilion with the free-standing stone wall of onyx doré on a wide travertine floor and the diaphanous room separators. Mies van der Rohe's spatial concept is particularly evident in this view. One recognizes the simplicity and clarity of the layout and the interaction of the exquisite materials. A rare documentation of this extremely modern, streamlined design by Mies van der Rohe. The structure was van der Rohe's first major work, which was unfortunately torn down after the exhibition. – Corners slightly bumped, retouched spot in upper left, light indentation mark in upper right, otherwise a fine tonal print in very good condition (not examined outside frame).
Lit.: Vitra Design Museum (ed.). Mies van der Rohe. Möbel und Bauten in Stuttgart, Barcelona, Brno (exhibition catalogue). Weil am Rhein 1998.
Architecture & Design
Design project for Alexanderplatz, Berlin by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Los 4083
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2.480€ (US$ 2,667)
Photographer: Wilhelm Niemann (1891-1981). Design project for Alexanderplatz, Berlin by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. 1928/29. Vintage gelatin silver print of a photomontage. 10 x 14,5 cm. ATELIER MIES VAN DER ROHE, BERLIN W. 35 - AM KARLSBAD 24 stamp on the verso, framed under museum glass in fine wooden frame.
With the appointment of Martin Wagner as Berlin's city architect (Stadtbaurat) in 1926, a new spirit of innovation emerged in the redesigning of Berlin. This particularily concerned a newly adapted traffic planning, as well as the design of some prominent Berlin squares, such as Alexanderplatz shown in this example, based on the ideas of the Bauhaus. Architects such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Hans Scharoun and Hugo Häring were called upon for these building projects. – Minimal crease mark in upper right, otherwise in very good condition (not examined outside frame).
Lit.: Das Neue Frankfurt. Monatsschrift für die Probleme Moderner Gestaltung. Vol. 3, issue 3, March 1929, p. 61.
Helmut Reuter and Birgit Schulte (eds.): Mies und das Neue Wohnen. Räume, Möbel. Fotografie.Ostfildern 2008, ill. 252, p. 262.
Architecture & Design
Notre-Dame du Haute, Ronchamp, archtiect Le Corbusier
Los 4090
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372€ (US$ 400)
Photographer unknown. Notre-Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, architect Le Corbusier. 1950s. 3 vintage gelatin silver prints. Each circa 28,9 x 23 cm. Flush-mounted to board.
Includes a view of the new pilgrim hostel. – Corners slightly bumped, some light surface scratches, otherwise in good condition.
Provenance: The estate of Dr. Adolf Behne.
"Rise, N.Y.C.". 1984/printed 1993. Gelatin silver print. 36,5 x 36,5 cm (50 x 40 cm). Signed, titled, dated and dedicated by the photographer in ink on the verso.
Some soiling in margins, handling crease in lower left, otherwise a fine tonal print in very good condition.
Provenance: From the photographer to the present owner.
Astronomy
The night sky with Paris horizon
Los 4092
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4.464€ (US$ 4,800)
Photographer unknown. The night sky with Paris horizon. 1950s. Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print. 15,4 x 23,2 cm. Distributor's/collector's H. Roger Viollet stamp and layout notes/marks in blue/red crayon on the verso.
A few minimal handling marks, otherwise in very good condition.
Axelsson, Ragnar
Greenland - on the Ice, Hunter
Los 4094
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496€ (US$ 533)
"Greenland - on the Ice, Hunter". 1995. Gelatin silver print. 36,5 x 25 cm (30,5 x 40,3 cm). Signed, titled and dated by the photographer in pencil and edition stamp on the verso.
A fine tonal print in excellent condition.
Female nude. 1950s. Vintage gelatin silver print. 21 x 33 cm (30 x 40 cm). Mounted to original board, photographer's stamp below image in right corner on the mount.
Jean-Marie Auradon became well known for his large-scale nudes, which he often posed like classical sculptures. He exhibited his work in 1930 and 1936 at the Salon International D'Art Photographique de Paris. He also belonged to the French 'Group XV' which included such well-known photographers as Robert Doisneau and Willy Ronis. The group existed between 1946-1956 and sought to promote French photography by organizing frequent exhibitions while stressing the importance of technique and quality in photographic prints. – Minimal surface scuffing/rubbing, more visible at an angle, otherwise in very good condition.
Barbette
The female impersonator Barbette
Los 4097
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1.860€ (US$ 2,000)
Photographer: Lucien Walery (1863-1935). The female impersonator Barbette. Circa 1923/24. Vintage toned gelatin silver print on doubleweight chamois paper. 19 x 16 cm. Signed by the photographer in ink in lower left; distributor's stamp and annotated in blue crayon and pencil on the verso.
American-born trapeze artist Vander Clyde, who later called himself Barbette, performed in the circus dressed as a woman, among other things. Later, in the 1920s, he traveled through Europe and had great success especially with his travesty shows. He was friends with many artists and the many famous photographers (e.g. Man Ray, d'Ora Benda, Willinger, Walery and others) portrayed him. – Small crease in lower edge, corners minimally bumped, minimal silver mirroring in edges, only visible at an angle, otherwise a fine tonal print in very good condition.
Campanula with grass. 1930s. Vintage gelatin silver print on doubleweight ivory paper. 29 x 21,3 cm. With overmat, signed by the photographer in pencil.
Slight buckling, otherwise a fine warm-toned print in very good condition.
Bergemann, Sibylle
Self-portrait with models
Los 4100
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1.984€ (US$ 2,133)
Self-portrait with models. 1990s. Vintage polaroid photo. 9 x 11 cm.
Some surface scratches, more visible at an angle, otherwise in good condition.
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