Nègre, Charles
L'Asile impérial de Vincennes
Los 4051
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434€ (US$ 467)
L'Asile impérial de Vincennes". 1858-59. Albumen print (round). Diameter 17,3 cm. Mounted to board (slightly soiled), annotated in pencil in lower left and on verso of mount.
This photograph is part of a series made by Charles Nègre in 1858-59 for the publication: Photographic Views of the Imperial Asylum at Vincennes (Vues photographiques de l'Asile Impérial de Vincennes). The photo offered here shows the celebration in the Asylum of Vincennes on the occasion of greeting the emperor or "August 15". The residents are busy playing the so-called frog game outside. – A few retouched spots, some light surface scuff marks, otherwise in very good condition.
Opera & Theater
Album with portraits of mainly German opera and theater celebrities and personalities
Los 4053
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744€ (US$ 800)
Album with portraits of mainly German opera and theater celebrities and personalities. 1880s. 170 albumen and some collodion paper prints. Various sizes between 14,5 x 9,5 cm, some larger 20 x 13 cm and some smaller. Mounted to boards (edges slightly time-stained), each signed by the sitter or annotated by another hand in ink on the mount, bound in maroon full leather album (corners/edges rubbed, some scratch/scuff marks, spine damaged) with brass clasp.
This album compiles a wide range of portraits of foremost German literary, theater and opera figures such as: Ernst von Wolzogen, Johanna Ambrosius, Oscar Blumenthal, Alfred Kerr, Gerhard Hauptmann, Friedrich Wilhelm Jordan, Ernst von Wildenbruch, Albert Goldberg, Ludwig Barnay, August Bassermann, Josef Levinsky and many more. One image shows Franz Liszt surrounded by his pupils. Some photographs are dedicated to Alexander Wyeken. – Some photos with surface scuff marks, some faded in edges, otherwise most in good to very good condition.
Provenance: The estate of the German journalist and magazine publisher Alexander Wyneken (1839-1939)
Ottoman Empire
Travel album with portraits of people of the Ottoman Empire, views the Netherlands, Italy and Germany
Los 4056
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434€ (US$ 467)
Photographer: Abdullah Frères (active 1855-1899), Pascal Sebah (1825-1886) and Guillaume Berggren (1835-1920). Views of Constantinople and surroundings. 1880s/90s. 35 albumen prints. Various sizes, most circa 19,5 x 25,5 cm. Some with photographer's name and/or title in the negative in lower corner, mounted to album boards (time-stained in edges) in half leather portfolio.
Includes picturesque costume and market scenes, monuments, street life, palaces of Constantinople, with views of the newly built Anatolian train line. – Some surface scuff marks, most in good to very good condition.
Peru
Landscapes and people of Upper Amazon Valley, Peru
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7.440€ (US$ 8,000)
Photographer: Charles Kroehle (1867-1902) and unknown. The images show landscapes and settlements, farming, market places, industrial structures such as bridges, railroad lines and stations as well as people of the Upper Amazon Valley, Peru. 1888-91. 47 albumen and collodion paper prints. Circa 14 x 18 cm and some smaller. 2 signed by the photographer in lower left/right corner in the negative.
Along with George Huebner, the German Charles Kroehle is considered the pioneereing photographer of the Amazon in Peru. This comprehensive collection offers an extensive impression of landscapes and settlements, farming, marketplaces industrial buildings such as bridges, railroad lines and stations. Other images show indigenous people and portraits of European settlers, landscapes and housing of the area. – Some with slight fading in edges, some light handling marks/creases, some with reddish spots, otherwise most in good to very good condition.
Lit.: Manuela Fischer/ Michael Kraus (eds.). Exploring the Archive: Historical Photography from Latin America. The Collection of the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin. Cologne 2015, see pp. 69-71.
Peru
Charles Kroehle and George Huebner, Peru
Los 4058 [*]
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992€ (US$ 1,067)
Photographer: Charles Kroehle (1867-1902) and unknown. Charles Kroehle and George Huebner, Peru. 1888. 2 albumen prints. Each circa 14,5 x 21 cm. Each annotated in pencil on the verso.
The two Germans Charles Kroehle and George Huebner are considered the pioneering photographers of the Amazon in Peru. From 1888-1891 they travelled the Amazon, Ecuador and Bolivia. One rare image in this group is the famous image showing both of them together with Piro-Indios from Rio Ucayali and a hunted crocodile. – Some handling marks/creases, slight fading in edges, otherwise in very good condition.
Lit.: Antoine Lefébure. L´Amazonie disparu. Indiens et explorateurs 1825-1930. La Découverture, Paris, 2005, ill. pp. 96-97 (Kroehle and Huebner).
Photographer: probably Emile Gsell (1838-1879). View of Phnom Penh at the bay of Tonle Sap river. Circa 1866. Albumen print. 22,3 x 31 cm. Mounted to board (slight traces of use and soiled), annotated in pencil below the image on the mount.
The French photographer Emile Gsell worked in southeast Asia and was the first photographer to be based in Saigon. He participated in at least three scientific expeditions and his images of Angkor Wat are some of the earliest of that site. Under pressure of the French, King Norodon I moved his government's seat from Udom to Phnom Penh. This rare view was probably taken shortly after this move in 1866, as it still shows a simple settlement of bamboo huts with the famous Wat Phnom Pagoda in the background from which the town takes its name. After the move of the King the French began to rebuild the city and took Phnom Phenh as the seat of colonial administration. – Three vertical fold marks, small tear in right edge, glued through mounting, a few light foxing spots in sky area, otherwise a rich dark print in good condition.
Views of Constantinople. Circa 1900. 17 photochromes and 8 albumen prints. Various sizes between 22,5 x 16,5 cm and 16,5 x 22,5 cm. Photochromes with gilt-stamped title, number and logo P.Z. in lower edge, inserted in album windows in art nouveau half canvas album.
Most in very good condition with bright colors.
Sella, Vittorio
Signalkuppe des Monte Rosa; Blick vom Lysjoch auf den Monte Rosa
Los 4066
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744€ (US$ 800)
"Signalkuppe des Monte Rosa"; "Blick vom Lysjoch auf den Monte Rosa". 1899. 1 vintage gelatin silver print, 1 vintage collodion paper print. 24 x 19,5 cm and 28,5 x 37,5 cm. Each with photographer's Vittorio Sella, Biella blindstamp in lower right, each mounted to board, annotated in German in ink below image on mount.
A few minimal surface scuff marks, otherwise in very good condition.
Stillfried-Ratenicz, Baron Raimund von
Portrait of a high-ranking Japanese official
Los 4067
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744€ (US$ 800)
Portrait of a high-ranking Japanese official. 1870s. Hand-colored albumen print. 25,8 x 20 cm.
A few light handling marks/creases, remnants of previous mount on verso, otherwise a strong print in very good condition.
Lit.: Luke Gartlan. A Career of Japan. Baron Raimund von Stillfried and Early Yokohama Photography. Leiden/Boston 2016, compare ill. p. 208.
Photographer unknown. View of Stonehenge. 1870s. Albumen print. 14 x 20,5 cm. Number in negative in lower left.
Spots in left area, creases in upper right and in lower corners, otherwise in good condition.
Völkerling, Gustav
Dessauer Eichen (Oaks in Dessau)
Los 4073 [*]
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1.984€ (US$ 2,133)
"Dessauer Eichen" (Oaks in Dessau). 1859. Varnished salt print (?) with rounded corners. 32 x 26 cm. Mounted to original board with applicated frame line, signed and dated by the photographer in ink in lower edge.
Some light surface scuff marks, otherwise in good condition.
Völkerling, Gustav
Dessauer Eichen (Oaks in Dessau)
Los 4074 [*]
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1.364€ (US$ 1,467)
"Dessauer Eichen" (Oaks in Dessau). 1859. Varnished salt print (?). 31 x 26,5 cm. Mounted to original board with applicated frame line, signed and dated by the photographer in ink in lower edge.
Born in Berlin, the photographer Gustav Völkerling moved to Dessau in 1840 and in1860 he was appointed court photographer by Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt. – Some light surface scuff marks, retouching in lower left and mid area, otherwise in good condition.
Watkins, Carleton E.
Galen Clark in front of the Grizzly Giant; Fallen tree
Los 4075
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744€ (US$ 800)
Galen Clark in front of the "Grizzly Giant"; Fallen tree in Mariposa Grove, "Father of the Forest". 1861. 2 albumen prints. 30,5 x 20,5 cm and 33,3 x 24 cm. Each mounted to board/card, annotated in ink/pencil on mount and mount verso.
One photograph shows Galen Clark in front of the "Grizzly Giant", one of the discoverers of the Mariposa Grove in 1857 and the first ranger of Yosemite Park. – Some light surface scuff marks, second print with cut corners, otherwise in very good condition with strong contrasts.
Watkins, Carleton E.
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
Los 4076
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1.364€ (US$ 1,467)
(Attributed to). "Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone". 1870s. Albumen print. 32,5 x 24,5 cm. Title in the negative in lower left corner, mounted to board (slight traces of use).
Two minimal surface scratch marks in right edge, otherwise a tonal dark print in very good condition.
Wilhelm I and Kaiser Friedrich III, Kaiser
Portraits of Kaiser Wilhelm I and Kaiser Friedrich III on their death beds
Los 4077
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372€ (US$ 400)
Photographer: Reichard & Lindner. Portraits of Kaiser Wilhelm I and Kaiser Friedrich III on their death beds. March 9 and June 16, 1888. 2 collodion paper prints. 28 x 17,8 cm. Each with photographer's blindstamp in lower left, each mounted to original Imperial card with embossed photographer's name and signature of Emperors and date below image on mount.
A few surface scuff marks, Kaiser Wilhelm I print with small rubbed spot near upper edge, otherwise in very good condition.
Wehnert-Beckmann, Bertha
Portraits of the Leipzig merchant Carl Lampe and his wife
Los 4078
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2.232€ (US$ 2,400)
Portraits of the Leipzig merchant Carl Lampe (1804-1889) and his wife. Early 1850s. 2 salt prints from wet-plate collodion negatives. Each circa 18,5 x 14,2 cm. Each mounted to board, both with photographer's paper label on mount verso, male portrait numbered and annotated in blue crayon on the verso.
Bertha Beckmann was born on January 25, 1815 in Cottbus. From 1839 until 1843, she worked for a jeweller in Dresden. But already in 1824, she was working on the side with photography, making daguerreotypes. In 1843, she became a student of Wilhelm Horn, who had opened a studio in Prague in 1841. Her early work with Horn makes her the first woman photographer in the world. In 1845, she married the Leipzig photographer, Eduard Wehnert. He unfortunately died two years later. The two portraits offered here were probably made soon after her return to Leipzig, because since at this early date she was already advertising photographs based on the collodion process. In 1854, she took part in the German Industrial Exhibition in Munich and showed only salt paper prints. From this year on, all references to daguerreotypes were dropped from her studio label. She actively used her Leipzig studio until 1883. Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann died December 6, 1901 in Leipzig.
The Leipzig merchant Carl Lampe was one of the city's wealthiest and most respected citizens in the 19th century. He was a city councilor in Leipzig from 1834-1838 and a member of the Masonic lodge Minerva. In 1835, he was a co-founder of the Leipzig-Dresden Railway Company and a member of the board of directors. Lampe was a founder and member of many more charitable organizations and associations, however, his greatest merit was in the cultural sector. In November 1836, fifteen Leipzig citizens met in his house and founded the later famous Leipzig Art Society. The purpose of this association was the later establishment of a municipal art museum. – Both photos in excellent condition with a rich violet-brown tone.
Lit.: Jochen Voigt. A German Lady. Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann. Leben & Werk einer Fotografiepionierin, Chemnitz 2014, ill. pp. 352-354. In this extensive monograph, the portrait still appears on page 352 as "unknown". Unfortunately, Prof. Voigt was only able to identify Carl Lampe after his book had been printed.
Woodbury, Walter Bentley / James Page
Alfurs of the Moluccan Islands
Los 4079
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1.612€ (US$ 1,733)
(Attributed to). Alfurs of the Moluccan Islands. 1870s. Albumen print. 21,5 x 16,5 cm. Annotated in Dutch Inlandsche Christen, Molukken in pencil on the verso.
After an apprenticeship in Manchester (1849-51) in a patent office, Walter Woodbury went to the Australia gold mines in 1852. After a number of jobs, he took up professional photography and emigrated with James Page to Java in 1858, where the photographic firm of Woodbury & Page was founded in Batavia. He returned to England via Singapore, where in January 1863 he advertised his photographic views for sale at John Little & Co. – A few light handling creases, otherwise strong print in very good condition with a rich dark brown tone.
Adam, Hans Christian
Montreal, Parque Olympique
Los 4080
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248€ (US$ 267)
"Montreal, Parque Olympique". 1976/printed later. Gelatin silver print. 19,5 x 25,5 cm (24 x 30 cm). Photographer's/copyright stamp, monogrammed, titled and dated by the photographer in pencil on the verso.
In very good condition.
Adenauer, Konrad
Konrad Adenauer in Caddenabbia
Los 4081
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620€ (US$ 667)
Photographer: Will McBride (1931-2015). Konrad Adenauer in Caddenabbia. 1963. 2 vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver prints on Agfa paper. Each 30 x 21 cm. Each with photographer's stamp and agency stamp as well as signed, titled and dated by the photographer in pencil on the verso.
Corners bumped, some handling marks, otherwise in very good condition.
Lit.: Will McBride. I, Will McBride. Cologne 1997, ill. p. 233.
Architecture, Modern German
Collection of modern German architectural images, interior and exterior views
Los 4084
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682€ (US$ 733)
Collection of modern German architectural images, interior and exterior views. 1920s. Circa 125 glass plate slides. Each circa 8,5 x 10 cm. Each annotated in ink on paper tape seals, in 2 wooden boxes.
The slides show well-known architectural projects of famous, mostly German architects such as Martin Gropius, Bruno Taut, Mies van der Rohe, Erich Mendelsohn, Le Corbusier, Otto Bartning, Ludwig Hilbersheimer and others. The projects are modern industrial and residential buildings and show Bauhaus Dessau, Weissenhof Siedlung, Stuttgart; Siedlung Britz, Berlin; Onkle Toms Hütte, Berlin; various department stores buildings of "Das Neue Frankfurt" as well as images of bridges, stations and industrial structures. – In good condition.
Woman sitting in garden. Circa 1900. Autochrome. 11 x 8 cm (20 x 16 cm). With original frame with printed address A. Lumière & Sesfils-Lyon., r. Dechavammes, Paris.
According to Gordon Baldwin, autochromes were the first "really practicable photographs in color" and were made by a process invented and patented by Louis Lumière in 1904. A glass plate was coated with a varnish on which tiny grains of potato starch (first dyed red-orange, blue-violet and green) were randomly distributed in equal ratio, forming a dense mosaic color filter on the plate. Another coating of varnish and finally a gelatin-bromide emulsion, which was orthochromatic, was added over the layer of potato starch. The starch grain mosaic filtered the light so the bromide emulsion was selectively exposed by color. After being exposed the plates were developed and washed. These negatives were then placed in a chemical bath to bleach out the negative impression, and after exposure to white light the plates were redeveloped, resulting in a positive colored impression that was fixed, washed and varnished a final time. Each autochrome is a unique object, and although the photographer is unknown, their vibrant colors and often poetic composition are impressive. – Some craquelure in upper right corner, colors partly faded, otherwise in good condition.
Lit.: Gordon Baldwin. Looking at Photographs. A Guide to Technical Terms. Los Angeles, 1991, see p.10.
Aviation
Architectural model for Tempelhof Airport, Berlin
Los 4091
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682€ (US$ 733)
Photographer: Alex Stöcker (1896-1962). Architectural model for Tempelhof Airport, Berlin. Circa 1936. 6 vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver press prints on doubleweight paper. Circa 12 x 16,5 cm. Each with collector's stamp, Modell des neuen Weltflughafens Tempelhof and Deutsche Lufthansa (Stöcker) stamp on the verso.
Fine prints in very good condition.
Aviation
Images of Junkers "Africa round flight"
Los 4093
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372€ (US$ 400)
Photographer unknown. Images of Junkers "Africa round flight". 1936. 35 vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver press prints. Various sizes, most circa 12 x 15 cm. Most with collector's/archive stamp and typed press text on the verso.
Edges curled, some stains, some traces of use, otherwise in good condition.
Aviation
Images of air traffic at night at Tempelhof Airport, Berlin
Los 4094
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434€ (US$ 467)
Photographer: Alex Stöcker (1896-1962). Images of air traffic at night at Tempelhof Airport, Berlin. Circa 1939. 11 vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver press prints on doubleweight paper. Circa 12 x 16,5 cm. Each with collector's/archive stamp, typed press text label and Deutsche Lufthansa (Stöcker) stamp on the verso.
Fine prints in very good condition.
Berlin im Licht
Views of buildings illuminated for 'Berlin im Licht'
Los 4097
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34.720€ (US$ 37,333)
Photographer: Martin Höhlig (1882-1948). Views of buildings and locations in Berlin illuminated for the project Berlin im Licht. 1928. 100 vintage, ferrotyped gelatin silver prints on ivory paper. Each circa 22,5 x 16,5 cm and 16,5 x 22,5 cm. Some with number in lower right corner in the negative, inserted in album pages (slight toning in edges), bound in original emerald green cloth presentation album (edges slightly rubbed) with gilt-stamped title Berlin im Licht (25,5 x 35 cm).
From October 13-16, 1928, together with various business organizations and the lighting industry (AEG, Siemens & Halske, Osram), the city of Berlin initiated a visionary propaganda campaign for electric light advertising and illumination of the city under the slogan Berlin im Licht (Berlin Alight). It was a sensation throughout Germany and a spectacular tribute to modern city life. Kurt Weill was even asked to compose a song entitled "Berlin im Licht" for the occasion.
Already in the early 1920s, the designer Walter Dexel had developed the first fluorescent light for advertising purposes. As of 1926 he worked in Frankfurt and designed light advertising to unify facades and create harmony between architecture and advertising. He also used larger designs on facades and on rooftops, as well as illuminated phone booths and columns. There was a clear trend in using light in advertising and architecture.
A group of more than one hundred night views, which are a brilliant testimony to the New Vision in photography of the time, as well as urban and architectural photography, was taken to document the Berlin im Licht event. The collection offered here contains a complete series and in its entirety constitutes a very rare and important part of photographic history. Only a few complete albums remain intact with a series of one hundred photographs each to illustrate the Berlin im Licht project. One is in the collection of the Stadtmuseum Berlin, which was exhibited in 2008 and contains many of the photographs offered here. This group presents a comprehensive overview of all locations involved in the project, among them many modern buildings designed by renowned architects.
The buildings include department stores such as Kaufhaus des Westens ("KaDeWe") and the silk store Michels & Cie., Kurfürstendamm (both designed by Johann Emil Schaudt); the main store of Michels & Cie., Leipziger Straße; the fur store C.A. Herpich & Söhne, Leipziger Straße (Erich Mendelsohn) as well as different branch offices of Hermann Tietz ("Hertie").
A selection of images, which strongly follow the new objectivity aesthetic in photography, depict various retail stores, window shop displays, illuminated advertising columns such as the Berlin im Licht column at Großer Stern, which advertised the event (see p. 96), the Persil column at Potsdamer Platz, as well as brightly lit exterior advertising billboards.
In addition, this collection contains a series of striking images depicting modern cinemas such as: Ufa-Pavillon, Nollendorfplatz (Oskar Kaufmann); Ufa-Palast, Hardenbergstr. and the Titania-Palast, Steglitz (Schoffler, Schlönbach & Jacobi). Hotels are also included, such as the Excelsior, Anhalter Bahnhof (Otto Rehnig) as well as places of public entertainment, such as Potsdamer Platz with Haus Vaterland (Franz Schwechten) and the Columbia Tanz-Cabaret.
The present collection of photographs not only gives a wonderful impression of Berlin at night in the 1920s, but also documents a historical era of Berlin enterprise, especially in the images of department stores and retail stores of Jewish owners, such as the silk store Michels & Cie., the textile shop Hermann Gerson and the luggage, leather and luxury item shop of Albert Rosenhain. These shops were soon closed in the 1930s or "aryanized" and their owners were either deported or forced to emigrate. – All photographs with pressure marks in corners from album slits, some with silver mirroring in edges and corners, some with light handling marks/creases, otherwise most in good to very good condition.
Lit.: Franziska Nentwig (ed.). Berlin im Licht. Berlin 2008, ill. pp. 2 and 224-236.
Fred Richter. Die Weltstadt im Licht. Berliner Nachtfotografien von Martin Höhlig aus den Jahren 1925 bis 1932, many illustrated.
Bellmer, Hans
Hans Bellmer Photographies (Images from the "Poupée" series
Los 4098
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8.060€ (US$ 8,667)
"Hans Bellmer Photographies" (Images from the "Poupée" series). 1930s/printed 1983. 10 gelatin silver prints. Each circa 25,5 x 26 cm (35 x 29 cm). Each with photographer's facsimile signature blindstamp below image in margin; each with photographer's name stamp editioned 6/50 in ink and Tirage original realisé par Roger Vulliez stamp on the verso, in window mats. In original black cloth clamshell box with applied lace and pink stamped title Hans Bellmer (a few corners minimally rubbed, otherwise in excellent condition), 2 text leaves. Galerie Francois Petit Paris1983. Edition 50.
This attractive portfolio contains 10 posthumous prints made from the original negatives of Hans Bellmer, by "Roger Vulliez after agreement of the rights holders who numbered them and marked them with a dry stamp" and wet stamps on the verso.
– One print with light handling dent in lower right near edge, otherwise in very good to excellent condition.
Beatles, The
The Beatles filming "Help!" on Salisbury Plain
Los 4099 [*]
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1.054€ (US$ 1,133)
Photographer: Henry Wills b. 1930.The Beatles filming "Help!" on Salisbury Plain. May 1965. Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver press print. 20,5 x 25,5 cm. Agency/copyright stamp on the verso.
A few handling creases, edges curled, otherwise in good condition.
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