Automobiles
Small automobile factory, Germany
Los 4091
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744€ (US$ 800)
Photographer: Hugo Schmölz (1879-1938). Small automobile factory, Germany. 1920s. 2 vintage gelatin silver prints. Each circa 17 x 21 cm. Each with photographer's stamp on the verso.
Some fading/silvering in edges, traces of previous mounting on verso.
Photographer: Nicola Perscheid (1864-1930). Max von Baden. Circa 1910. Vintage gelatin silver print. 19 x 16 cm. Mounted to original studio board, annotated in pencil on the verso.
Max von Baden was the last Reichskanzler of the German Empire in 1918. – Slight mirroring in edges, otherwise in very good condition.
Becher, Bernd and Hilla
Transformator Silo
Los 4095
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1.736€ (US$ 1,867)
Transformator - Silo. 1971. Collotype. 34,5 x 39,7 cm (54,5 x 60 cm). Signed and dated 71 by the photographer in pencil in lower right corner in margin; annotated in pencil on the verso.
In very good condition.
Bergemann, Sibylle
Backstage at fashion show
Los 4096
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546€ (US$ 587)
Backstage at fashion show. 1980s. 2 vintage gelatin silver prints. Each circa 17 x 25,5 cm. Each with photographer's/copyright stamp on the verso.
Some retouched spots, one print with crease mark in lower right, one with stronger vertical crease in left side.
Berlin
Views of Berlin during reconstruction
Los 4098
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521€ (US$ 560)
Photographer: Kessler. Views of Berlin during reconstruction. 1950s. 11 vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver prints on Agfa-Brovira paper. Each circa 18 x 24 cm. 1 with photographer's stamp and some with German typed press text label on the verso.
This interesting group of images shows well-known newly constructed buldings in Berlin after WWII such as the Henry Ford building in Dahlem, Otto-Suhr-Allee, Ernst-Reuter-Platz, the Academy of Arts, Hansaviertel and others. – Some light handlling marks, otherwise in good to very good condition.
Photographer unknown. Album with views of Berlin. 1920s-30s. 40 vintage photo postcards. Each circa 9 x 14 cm. Mounted in album page slits, bound in contemporary paper album with chord binding.
Most photo postcards unused and in good to very good condition.
"Sonne im Herbstwald". 1930s. Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on Agfa-Portriga-Rapid paper. 23,7 x 16,8 cm. Annotated by the photographer in ink, as well as photographer's Stgt.-Wangen Wasenstr. 4 stamp on the verso.
Robert Bothner was employed as master photographer at the Landesbildstelle Württemberg in Stuttgart from 1927-1963. Between 1925-1927 he travelled through Italy and France taking photos with his 9 x 12 camera. He also worked in Russia during WWII as a war correspondent for the German Air Force. His photographs are often marked by technical and compositional perfection and his work was published in "Das Deutsche Lichtbild" 1936, 1937 and 1957. – In excellent condition.
Provenance: The estate of the photographer.
Views of Mexico. Early 1930s. 10 vintage toned gelatin silver prints. Each circa 25 x 20 cm and larger. Most with photographer's name and title in the negative, 3 with photographer's stamp on the verso.
Hugo Brehme is considered one of the outstanding photographers of Mexico and mostly known for his high-quality photo postcards depicting the landscapes and people of the country. Born in Germany, he spent most of his life in Mexico and had a large influence on the work of Manuel Alvarez Bravo who studied under him. – Three prints with some discoloration, otherwise most in very good condition. With: A copy of Hugo Brehme (ed.). Das malerische Mexiko. Mexiko 1927. - Edges slighty rubbed, otherwise good, clean copy.
Lit.: Hugo Brehme (ed.). Das malerische Mexiko. Mexiko 1927, ill. p. 37.
Brüchmann, Peter
The Beatles performing at the Top-Ten Club, Hamburg
Los 4102
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496€ (US$ 533)
The Beatles performing at the Top Ten Club, Hamburg. 1961/printed 1980s. 4 ferrotyped gelatin silver prints. Each circa 24 x 18 cm. Each with photographer's blindstamp in lower right in the margin; each with agency label on the verso.
Born in Berlin, Peter Brüchmann trained to be a photographer with the fashion and portrait photographer Lotte Söhring and subsequently completed training at the German press agency dpa. In the 1950s and 1960s he worked for well-known magazines, such as Schöner Wohnen, Stern and Bild am Sonntag. Brüchmann is primarily known for his portraits of celebrities of the movie and music industry. These photos were made during the Beatles' performance at the Top Ten Club in Hamburg in 1961. – A few light handling marks, otherwise in very good condition.
Lit.: Rock Gallery. The Beatles at the Top Ten Hamburg 1961. 10 Historic Photos by Peter Brüchmann (no date), all illustrated.
Brüchmann, Peter
Wolfgang Neuss above Breitscheidplatz, Berlin
Los 4103
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570€ (US$ 613)
Wolfgang Neuss above Breitscheidplatz, Berlin. 1963. Vintage gelatin silver print. 30 x 39,5 cm. Photographer's/copyright stamp on the verso.
Minimal edge wear, two small tears in lower edge, some retouched spots in sky area, a few light handling marks, otherwise in very good condition.
Budnik, Dan
Roy Lichtenstein with his sons David and Mitchell, West 26th Street Studio, New York, with "We Rose Up Slowly"
Los 4106
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744€ (US$ 800)
Roy Lichtenstein with his sons David and Mitchell, West 26th Street Studio, New York, with "We Rose Up Slowly". 1964/printed 2006-08. Dye transfer print. 56 x 37 cm (60 x 50 cm). Unsigned, with printer's stamp on the verso.
In excellent condition.
"Bulgari". 1996. Chromogenic digital print on Kodak Professional Digital paper. 36,5 x 25,5 cm (40,5 x 31,4 cm). Signed, titled and editioned 7/15 by the photographer in ink on the verso. From a limited edition by Artinvestor, Munich.
What appears to be a disturbing scar on the face of the model Christy Turlington is actually created by the artist. Buetti writes on the back of the photo with a ball-point pen, then re-photographs the image so it appears as scarification. From Buetti's series "Looking for Love". – A few minimal handling marks, otherwise in very good condition.
Lit.: Ute Grosenick. Art Now. 137 Artists at the Rise of the New Millennium. Cologne 2002, ill. p. 73.
Burgdorf, Will
Portrait of a woman; Portrait of a man
Los 4108
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434€ (US$ 467)
Portrait of a woman; Portrait of a man. Early 1930s. 2 vintage warm-toned gelatin silver prints. Each circa 21 x 16 cm. 1 with photographer's stamp on verso, each mounted to card, signed by the photographer in pencil below the image on mount.
Will Burgdorf started his career as a photographer in 1930 and as of 1931 had a studio at Lister Platz in Hanover. He specialized in portraits and expressively posed nudes. He often photographed people with their eyes closed, giving the portraits a sense of inner contemplation. As of WWII Burgdorf's career ended and in 1945 he went missing. – Rich tonal prints in excellent condition.
Providence. 1961/printed 1980s. Dye transfer print. 24 x 36,5 cm (44,8 x 57 cm).
A few light handling marks in margins, otherwise in excellent condition with strong colors.
Cartier-Bresson, Henri
Henri Cartier-Bresson photographing at the open pit mining (Inden), Germany
Los 4112
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496€ (US$ 533)
Photographer: Gunter G. Haugwitz (1930-2013). Henri Cartier-Bresson photographing at the open pit mine (Inden), Germany. 1967/printed later. Gelatin silver print. 37,5 x 25,4 cm (40 x 30 cm).
In 1967 Henri Cartier Bresson photographed at the German open pit mine near Inden for the book Mensch und Maschine, a project initiated by IBM World Trade Corporation (published 1969). At the time the IBM public relations employee, Gunter G. Haugwitz, was assigned to accompany Cartier-Bresson on his trips around the Rhine area. He managed to capture the otherwise camera-shy Cartier-Bresson while working, taking a picture of an individual worker in front of a massive crane and giant soil heap. – In excellent condition.
Lit.: IBM (ed.). Mensch und Maschine. Photographien von Henri Cartier-Bresson. New York 1969, see pp. 46-47.
China/Ernst Boerschmann
Architectural photgraphic views and drawings/studies of China
Los 4115
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31.000€ (US$ 33,333)
Photographer: Ernst Boerschmann (1873-1949), E. Herold and unknown. Architectural photographic views and drawings/studies of China. 1910-1940. Circa 330 gelatin silver, collodion paper prints and halftone prints as well as various drawings, sketches and postcards. Various sizes between circa 5,5 x 9 cm, 17 x 13 cm (most) and 32 x 24 cm. Most annotated by Boerschmann in pencil/ ink on the verso.
German architect, photographer and sinologist Ernst Boerschmann was known for his research and photographs of historical Chinese architecture. He was the first foreigner to systematically document China's ancient cultural buildings, making thousands of photographs, sketches, and architectural surveys during several trips to China in the first half of the twentieth century.
In 1906, Boerschmann launched his first expedition with financial support from the German Empire. He traveled to China as a scientific advisor to the German Foreign Office, which supported his studies until the outbreak of World War I in 1914. On this trip, he documented many pagodas and temples with cameras and drawings that formed the material for his later publications. In June 1912, the first major exhibition of Boerschmann's photographic work was held at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin. After World War I, he lectured on Chinese architecture in Königsberg and other German cities. From 1921 he worked in Berlin as a lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin, where he was appointed professor in 1927. The publication of three books in the 1920s, Baukunst und Landschaft, Picturesque China, and Chinesische Architektur, promoted Boerschmann's China photography, and he became known internationally as a photographer rather than a researcher. Picturesque China (1923), published in English, was to become his most successful book. In 1931, Chinese architectural expert Zhu Qiqian invited Boerschmann to join his newly formed Society for the Study of Chinese Architecture in Beijing as a corresponding member. In 1943, during World War II, his apartment was bombed and destroyed. In 1945, Boerschmann was appointed professor of sinology at Humboldt University in Berlin and later held the same position at the University of Hamburg. He died on April 30, 1949, in Bad Pyrmont, Lower Saxony.
This diverse collection includes photographs, most by Boerschmann, his sketches and notes on Chinese architecture, and some personal documents, including his 1948 day calendar and a studio portrait of Boerschmann by Bann's Studio, Shanghai from 1934. The collection comes directly from the estate of Ernst Boerschmann. The only other known major group of Boerschmann's work is in the Stephan Loewentheil Collection. – Some with traces of use, most with curled edges, otherwise many in good to very good condition.
Provenance: Ernst Boerschmann estate
Photographer unknown. Staged Chinese propaganda photographs with a double of Mao Zedong. 1950s. 4 vintage ferrotyped gelatin prints. Each circa 30 x 24 cm.
These photographs do not show Mao Zedong himself, but an unknown double posing on them, making the leader of the Chinese state appear in a prestigious light. – Some light traces of use, two with pinholes in corners, otherwise in good condition.
Photographer: Wolfgang Volz (b. 1948). "Wrapped Reichstag". 1995. Offset print. 60 x 80 cm. With printed editon/copyright text in lower edge, signed by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in blue crayon in upper left corner.
An attractive documentation of one of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's most ambitious projects showing he Platz der Republik from the air, during sundown. – Upper corners bumped, otherwise in good condition.
Carla Bruni. 1993/printed 2007. Lambda print. 60 x 60 cm. In floating frame without glass. One of 150. With Lumas edition label sticker (unmounted).
In excellent condition.
The Dolly Sisters. Circa 1928. Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print. 18 x 21,1 cm. Photographer's signature logo in the negative in lower right; annotated in pencil/crayon on the verso.
In the 1920s, the image of women changed rapidly, and actresses such as the Dolly Sisters stood for the image of the "new" woman, which was widely circulated in the magazines of the Weimar Republic. A print of this image is in the collection of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg. – Some handling marks and some stronger creases in upper right area and lower left, otherwise in good condition.
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Telefon: +49 30 8938029-0
Fax: +49 30 8918025
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