Los 4243

Ruge, Willi
(1892-1961)Spartacist uprising, Berlin

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Spartacist uprising, Berlin. Jan. 5-12, 1919. 4 vintage gelatin silver prints. 8,7 x 14 cm (photo postcards) and 13 x 18 cm. Each annotated in pencil on the verso.

Willi Ruge was known for his dynamic photographic essays published in leading magazines of the 1920s-1930s, and he founded his own picture agency, Fotoaktuell. A daring innovator, he often combined his skills as a photographer and adventurer to place the viewer at the heart of the action, producing striking and original images. Tragically, much of his archive was destroyed during an air raid on Berlin in 1943, making surviving prints exceptionally rare. – A few light handling marks, one with some mirroring in dark areas, otherwise in good condition.

Lit.: Ute Eskildsen/Felix Hoffmann (eds.). Willi Ruge. Fotografien 1919-1953. Göttingen 2017, ill. p. 207.