Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts

Photochromes
Views of Constantinople
Los 4061 [*]

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868€ (US$ 933)

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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)

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"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)

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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.

Stonehenge
View of Stonehenge
Los 4068

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347€ (US$ 373)

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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)

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"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)

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"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)

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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)

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(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)

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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)

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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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(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)

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"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)

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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)

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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.

Autochrome
Woman sitting in garden
Los 4087

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372€ (US$ 400)

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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.