Los 4102

Burchartz, Max
(1887-1961)Lotte ( Auge)

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Lotte (Auge). 1928. Matte gelatin silver print on Agfa paper, printed 1980. 30,5 x 40 cm (32 x 41,5 cm). Edition stamp, signed by Lotte Burchartz in felt-tip pen and editioned "79/100" on the verso.

Born in 1887, Max Buchartz studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule Elberfeld and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He moved to Weimar in 1921, and in 1926 was appointed professor at the Folkwangschule, where he worked until 1933, teaching graphic design, typography and photography. His 1928 photograph Lotte (Auge), a close-up of his daughter’s eye, was featured in the 1929 Film und Foto exhibition in Stuttgart, and later enlarged as a mural for the 1931 Das Lichtbild exhibition in Essen, becoming an icon of modern photography. – Minimal traces of previous mounting on verso, otherwise in excellent condition.

Lit.: Film und Foto, p. 56, cat. no. 148, ill. p. 44.
Franz Roh/JanTschichold. foto-auge/oeil et photo/photo-eye. Stuttgart 1929, ill. plate 31.
Van Deren Coke. Avant Garde Photography in Germany 1919-1939. Munich 1982, ill. plate 23.