Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts

Aviation
Architectural model for Tempelhof Airport, Berlin
Los 4091

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682€ (US$ 733)

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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)

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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)

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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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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)

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"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)

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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.

Blume, Anna and Bernhard J.
Er & Sie, Monogamie
Los 4101

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806€ (US$ 867)

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"Er & Sie, Monogamie. 1988. Large-format gelatin silver print on RC paper. 60 x 45 cm. Signed and dated the photographers in pencil on the verso.

Some handling marks, otherwise in good condition.

Blossfeldt, Karl
Urformen der Kunst. Photographische Pflanzenbilder (Portfolio edition)
Los 4102

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1.612€ (US$ 1,733)

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Urformen der Kunst. Photographische Pflanzenbilder. Edited and with an introduction by Karl Nierendorf. XVII, 1 l. (Text page) and 120 loose plates in rotogravure after photographs. 31,5 x 24 cm. Green Orig.-canvas portfolio with gilt-stamped spine and cover title. Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth, 1929.

Rare portfolio second edition of this legendary work. – Some plates with minimal edge wear and creases, a few with light toning/soiling in margins.

Lit.: Heidtmann 14471 and 7293.

Bucovich, Mario von
Female nude
Los 4103

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372€ (US$ 400)

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Female nude. Circa 1925. Vintage toned matte gelatin silver print. 20,5 x 13,5 cm. Mounted to board (a few light foxing spots, minimal traces of use), signed by Bucovich in pencil below image on right, annotated Atelier Schenker below image on left, number label in lower left corner; Atelier Karl Schenker, Berlin W. 62, Budapesterstraße 6 stamp and Swedish exhibition label 1926 on mount verso.

Minimal spot in mid left area, small retouched spots, otherwise a fine print in very good condition.

Cattanao, Mario
Children laughing
Los 4109

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868€ (US$ 933)

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Children laughing. 1962. Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on doubleweight Gevaert paper. 29,7 x 40 cm. Photographer's stamp, exhibition stamp and annotated in ink/pencil on the verso.

Traces of previous mounting on the verso, corners bumped with some emulsion loss, some handling marks, otherwise in very good condition.

Cattanao, Mario
Boy in crowd
Los 4110

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434€ (US$ 467)

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Boy in crowd. 1964. Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on doubleweight Agfa paper. 40 x 29,5 cm. Photographer's stamp, exhibition stamp and annotated in ink/pencil on the verso.

Corners bumped, some handling marks, otherwise in very good condition.

Chaldej, Jewgeni
Atop the Berlin Reichstag, May 2, 1945
Los 4111

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1.612€ (US$ 1,733)

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"Atop the Berlin Reichstag, May 2, 1945". 1945/printed later. Gelatin silver print. 30,5 x 41 cm. Signed by the photographer in pencil on the verso.

An interesting document, which Chaldej himself commented on: "Early in the morning on May 2, 1945, I entered it (the Reichstag). I was surrounded by horrendous noise, Russians and Germans were all shouting in horrible confusion ... A pleasant young soldier came up to me. I had a red flag in my hand. He said, 'Lieutenant, davai, let's hurry up and climb onto the roof with the flag' ... We started out, but all the stairs were badly damaged. When we finally got up the Reichstag was on fire. ...We found a long pole. I spent lots of time trying out different compositions. I took one picture from the left, but that wasn't any good. I wanted Berlin to be clearly visible in the picture. Then I said, 'Boys, go and stand over there and raise the flag ... then try over there'. There were three of them. One was from the Ukraine, the other from Machatshkala in Dagestan and the third was a Russian. ... I shot a whole roll of film, 36 shots." (cited in Volland/Krimmer, p. 151). – In excellent condition.

Lit.: Ernst Volland/Heinz Krimmer (eds.). Von Moskau nach Berlin. Bilder des russischen Fotografen Jewgeni Chaldej. Berlin 1999, ill. p. 65.

China
Streetlife in Shanghai and one image of Nanking during the Second Sino-Japanese War
Los 4113

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248€ (US$ 267)

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Photographer/agency: Associated Press. Street life in Shanghai and one image of Nanking during the Second Sino-Japanese War. 1937-39. 6 vintage gelatin silver press prints. Most circa 20 x 14 cm and some larger. 2 with agency stamp and all with English press text label affixed to the verso.

The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from July 7, 1937-September 2, 1945. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, when the USA entered the war, it was a scene of the Pacific War and thus part of the Second World War. One image shows foreign residents barricading their homes with sandbags to protect against flying shrapnel. – Some with traces of use, one photo with punch holes in left edge, otherwise in good condition.

China
Industrial views of China
Los 4114

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1.240€ (US$ 1,333)

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Industrial views of China. 1940s. 10 vintage gelatin silver prints. Various sizes, most circa 20 x 16 cm, some larger. Mounted to board (toned and some foxing).

Three photos in this lot show Sichuan's gas and salt wells. Both mineral resources were used together, with the gas fire being available for the salt evaporation plants. Around the conveyors one can see the settlements or the so-called "wheel and buffalo quarters". These animals used wooden wheels to transport the brine upwards, where it was evaporated in the "furnace quarters”. – Most in good to very good condition.

Crewdson, Gregory
Production Still (Clover Street #2)
Los 4116

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4.960€ (US$ 5,333)

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"Production Still (Clover Street #2)". 2005. Chromogenic print. 30,5 x 40,9 cm (35,5 x 46 cm). Signed, numbered 28/30 and dated 2005 by the photographer in ink in lower margin.

In excellent condition with bright colors.

Dada Berlin
Opening of the "Erste Internationale Dada-Messe" held at the Otto Burchard Gallery, Berlin
Los 4117

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9.920€ (US$ 10,667)

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Photographer unknown. Opening of the "Erste Internationale Dada-Messe" (First International Dada Fair) held at the Otto Burchard Gallery, Berlin. 1920. Vintage gelatin silver print. 12 x 16,5 cm. Photothek agency stamp and typed French press text label: Exposition d'art des "Dadaistes" à Berlin, vue generale de l'exposition on the verso.

Only a few photographic documents exist today of the International Dada Fair, which opened in Berlin in June 1920. Nonetheless, they succeeded to etch their way into the historic cultural memory. The spectacular show took place at the Kunsthandlung Dr. Otto Burchard, Lützowufer 13. The photo offered here shows the following visitors: from left to right Raoul Hausmann, Hanna Höch, Dr. Burchard, Johannes Baader, Wieland Herzfelde and his wife, Dr. Oz, George Grosz, John Heartfield. On the far left the now missing painting "Kriegskrüppel" by Otto Dix is seen (see also lot 4264). A figure in military uniform with a pig mask dangles from the ceiling, which involved Otto Burchard in a lawsuit. A total of circa 200 exhibits hung on the walls, including printed Dada slogans such as "Nieder die Kunst!" (Down with art!) and "Dada ist die willentliche Zersetzung der bürgerlichen Begriffswelt" (Dada is the willful destruction of the bourgeois conceptual world). – Faded, some buckling from glue on verso, some mirroring in edges/corners, otherwise in good condition.

Dada Berlin
Johannes Baader next to his object "Germany's Greatness and Decline" at the opening of the "Erste Internationale Dada-Messe" held at the Otto Burchard Gallery, Berlin
Los 4118

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Photographer unknown. Johannes Baader next to his object "The Great Plasto-Dio-Dada-Drama: Germany's Greatness and Decline" at the opening of the "Erste Internationale Dada-Messe" (First International Dada Fair) held at the Otto Burchard Gallery, Berlin. 1920. Vintage gelatin silver print. 16,5 x 11,5 cm. Photothek agency stamp and typed French press text label: Exposition d'art des "Dadaistes" à Berlin, "la grandeur et la décadance de l'Allemagne" architecture monumentale dadaiste de Johannes Baader on the verso.

This photo document is a particularly rare specimen. Only very few prints exist. The creator of this unusual installation was the eccentric Johannes Baader, who later also organized Dada exhibition tours with Richard Hülsenbeck. Some press photos, like this and the previous photo were sent to Paris at the time to promote the Berlin event there as well. Despite the French inscription on the verso of each photo, it is not known whether these photos were published in France at the time. – Faded, some buckling from glue on verso, some mirroring in edges/corners, otherwise in good condition.

Dance Photography
Various teaching and dance scenes of the "Günther Schule", Munich
Los 4119

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2.108€ (US$ 2,267)

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Dance Photography
Photographer unknown. Various teaching and dance scenes of the "Günther Schule", Munich. 1924. 36 vintage gelatin silver prints. Various sizes, most circa 7,5 x 11 cm, some smaller. Inserted in window slits, bound in paper album with cord binding (tear on spine, cord loose).

The Günther School was founded on the initiative of Dorothea Günther and Carl Orff. The school quickly became known and subsequently expanded. It existed from 1924-1944, with an extensive teaching program, such as gymnastics, rhythmic dance and physical education, modern artistic dance, singing, anatomy, pedagogy, psychology, drawing and much more. – A few photos with mirroring in edges, otherwise strong photos in very good condition.

Dance Photography
Mary Wigman in dance poses
Los 4120

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446€ (US$ 480)

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Photographer: Charlotte Rudolph (1896-1983). Mary Wigman in various dance poses. Circa 1925. 3 vintage brown-toned gelatin silver prints. Each circa 23,7 x 18 cm. Each with photographer's name and dancer's name in upper/lower corner in the negative.

Photos in very good condition. With: Brochure Mary Wigman: Komposition. Überlingen 1925. Signed and dated by Mary Wigmen in ink on front flypaper. - Cover time-stained.