Artist Index: Kilian, Hannes

"Oberhausen am Rhein". 1955. Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on Agfa paper. 26,5 x 22,8 cm. 2 photographer's/copyright stamps, estate stamp, negative number in pencil and signed/annotated by Gundel Kilian in pencil on the verso.

Some handling marks, slight buckling in edges, some glue residue from previous mounting on verso, otherwise a fine print in very good condition.

Provenance: From the estate of the photographer.

Lit.: Klaus Honnef. Hannes Kilian. Exhibition catalogue. Ostfildern 2009, ill. p. 223.

"Springende Mädchen auf einer Frühlingswiese". 1938/printed 1980s. Gelatin silver print. 32,6 x 43 cm. Photographer's Aufnahme Kilian Stuttgart stamp, estate stamp and signed/annotated by Gundel Kilian in pencil on the verso.

After attending trade school, Hannes Kilian completed a three-year photography course in Switzerland. From 1933-1938 he lived in Naples and Paris, returning to Germany in 1938, where he worked as a freelance photojournalist. In 1941, he was recruited as a war photographer. As of 1945, Kilian resumed his work as a freelance photographer supplying photographs to magazines such as Time, Picture Post, Zeit, Stuttgarter Illustrierte, Spiegel, Stern and Vogue. As of the 1960s ballet became one of his main areas of focus. – Corners with small creases, traces from previous mounting on the verso, a fine print in excellent condition.

Provenance: From the estate of the photographer.

Lit.: Klaus Honnef. Hannes Kilian. Exhibition catalogue. Ostfildern 2009, ill. cover image.

Ballet scene. 1968. Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print. 24,7 x 33,7 cm. Photographer's Aufnahme Kilian Stuttgart stamp, estate/copyright stamp and signed and annotated by Gundel Kilian in pencil on the verso.

After attending trade school, Hannes Kilian completed a three-year photography course in Switzerland. From 1933-1938 he lived in Naples and Paris, returning to Germany in 1938 where he worked as a freelance photojournalist. In 1941 he was recruited as a war photographer. As of 1945 Kilian resumed his work as a freelance photographer supplying photographs to magazines such as Time, Picture Post, Zeit, Stuttgarter Illustrierte, Spiegel, Stern and Vogue. As of the 1960s Ballet became one of his main areas of focus. – Slight buckling in edges, some handling marks, otherwise a fine print in very good condition.

Provenance: From the estate of the photographer.

Lit.: Klaus Honnef. Hannes Kilian. Exhibition catalogue. Ostfildern 2009.