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Period: 1930s
Würzburg, Germany 1935, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Volkswagen beetle parking on the streets, Germany 1939 Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Spiral Staircase" by Fox Photos
Located in London, GB
"Spiral Staircase" by Fox Photos
May 1937: The spiral staircase at St Paul's Cathedral, London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
Unframed
Paper Size:...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Crowd Scene
Located in New York, NY
Edward Quigley
Crowd Scene, 1931
Vintage gelatin silver print
Artist's stamp on the back of the photograph
Frame Included
Frame bears labels from: Joel Soroka Gallery, Co Ota House, CA
Measurements:
Frame:
13 x 11.25 x 0.5 inch
Photograph:
4.5 x 3.5 inches
About Edward Quigley:
Edward Quigley was a leading American modernist who became known in the 1930s for his experimental photographic work with light. Quigley acquired his first camera at age twelve, joined the Photographic Society of Philadelphia in1929, and opened his own studio a year later. He supported himself with innovative advertising and editorial work published regularly in magazines such as U.S. Camera and Photographie, while winning prizes in numerous salons for his experimental light abstractions, captured with the aid of prisms and lenses to startling affect. Today, photographs by Edward Quigley are housed in the permanent collections of The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Biography Courtesy Robert Koch Gallery
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Eroded Rock (29R)
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
Initialed and dated in pencil on the front of the mount. Signed, titled and dated in pencil on the back of the mount. Printed in the mid-1940's and gifted to Glen Fishback, founder o...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$14,400 Sale Price
20% Off
At the Petrol Station - Vintage Silver Salt Photograph by A. Rodcenko
Located in Roma, IT
At the petrol station is an original vintage silver salts photograph, made by the great Russian Constructivist artist Aleksandr Michajlovic Rodčenko (Saint Petersburg, 1891 - Moscow, 1956) in 1935 ca.
Printed later, presumably between the 1940s and the 1950s.
In very good conditions, it is rare and precious. A scene of ordinary life is portrayed in an unusual point of view. The oblique cuts, the use of diagonal as the dynamics of this image, the close position of the machine are constants of Rodčenko'style and something of absolutely revolutionary and innovative at that time in the field of photography!
Provenance:
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Great Britain; Forum Auction, London; Private Collection.
Bibliography:
Alexander Rodchenko. Catalog of the retrospective exhibition published from the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1979.
Aleksandr Michajlovič Rodčenko (St. Petersburg, 1891 - Moscow, 1956)
Aleksandr Michajlovič Rodčenko was a Russian painter, photographer and graphic designer, a leading figure of the Russian avant-gardes who collaborated in the establishment of the Constructivist movement.
In 1924 Rodcenko definitively abandoned painting as the main artistic medium to embrace photography...
Category
Constructivist 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Man, child passing ferry house Hamburg Uhlenhorst , Germany 1938, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Stanley (1951) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Elia Kazan
Located in London, GB
Stanley (1951) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(photo by Cineclassico/Alamy Archives)
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE 1951.
Directed by Elia Kazan With Vivien Leigh...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
1st Class Travel (1934) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
1st Class Travel (1934) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
September 1934: Mrs C Wylds behind the wheel with her pet pig at Terling in Essex.
Additional...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Sun Beams Into Grand Central Station (1930) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Sun Beams Into Grand Central Station (1930) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Hal Morey/Getty Images)
Beams of sunlight streaming through the windows ...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
"Sun Beams Into Grand Central Station" by Hal Morey
Located in London, GB
"Sun Beams Into Grand Central Station" by Hal Morey
Beams of sunlight streaming through the windows at Grand Central Station, New York City, circa 1930.
Un...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Andalusia
Located in Houston, TX
Silver gelatin photograph of Andalusia, Spain, circa 1930.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival plastic sleeve and Certificate of Authent...
Category
1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$350
"Cotton Club Marquee In NY" by George Karger
Located in London, GB
"Cotton Club Marquee In NY" by George Karger
Taxis line up out side of the Cotton Club at Broadway and 48th Street circa 1938 in New York City, New York...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Young Boys Balilla while training - Original Vintage Photo - 1934 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo 1934 ca.
"la fotografica" - Photo Reportage Agency - Torino
photo by Gherlone Agency.
Category
1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Gerde
s Folk City" by John Kobal Foundation
Located in London, GB
"Gerde's Folk City" by John Kobal Foundation
Gerde's Folk City.
Unframed
Paper Size: 20" x 24'' (inches)
Printed 2022
Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Farmers in Town (1939) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
Located in London, GB
Farmers in Town (1939) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
(Photo by Arthur Rothstein/Alamy)
Farmers in town,
Fairfield, Montana, USA, circa 1939.
Additional Information:
Un...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
"Prince Alexander Of Yugoslavia At Eto" by Keystone-France
Located in London, GB
"Prince Alexander Of Yugoslavia At Eton College 1937" by Keystone-France
UNITED KINGDOM - SEPTEMBER 23: Prince Alexander Of Yugoslavia (2Nd From Left), The Son Of Regent Prince Paul...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Greta Garbo in Susan Lenox (Her Fall And Rise) - Photograph by Clarence Sinclair
Located in Soquel, CA
Greta Garbo in Susan Lenox (Her Fall And Rise) - Photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull
A black and white photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull (American, 1896-1979), matte finish, double-weight paper, depicting a 1931 shot of Swedish/American actress Greta Garbo (Swedish, 1905-1990) on the set of the film Susan Lenox (Her Fall And Rise) directed by Robert Z. Leonard. Greta Garbo poses in a hat, her hand resting on her face, while gazing into the camera. Printed decades later from the original negative, penciled in the lower left corner "A.P.," Estate stamped and blind embossed in the lower right corner "Clarence Sinclair Bull," further blind embossed in same corner "The Kobal / Collection," on verso with the photographer's black ink credit stamp and with "Edward Weston" black ink credit stamps dated "1981" and "1992," originally from the John Kobal Collection.
Greta Garbo was a Swedish-American actress. Regarded as one of the greatest screen actresses of all time, she was known for her melancholic, somber persona, her film portrayals of tragic characters, and her subtle and understated performances. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on its list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema.
Clarence Sinclair Bull was born in Sun River, Montana, in 1896. His career began when Samuel Goldwyn hired him in 1920 to photograph publicity stills of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio's stars. He is most famous for his photographs of Greta Garbo, taken between 1926 and 1941. Bull's first portrait of Garbo was a costume study for the silent romantic drama film Flesh and the Devil in September 1926.
Bull was able to study with the great Western painter...
Category
Photorealist 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Joan Crawford (1933) Archival Pigment Print
Located in London, GB
Joan Crawford (1933) Archival Pigment Print - Oversized
(Photo by Pictorial Press / Alamy Archives)
1933
Joan Crawford (1905-1977) US film actress.
Additional Information:
Unfr...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Canals near St. Nicolas church Hamburg Speicherstadt Germany 1938 Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Pride And Joy" by Fox Photos
Located in London, GB
"Pride And Joy" by Fox Photos
A driver polishes his new streamlined lorry upon its arrival at Wembley, London. The lorry is mounted on a 'Commer' two-ton chassis.
Unframed
Paper Si...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Table Tennis Stars" by John Kobal Foundation
Located in London, GB
"Table Tennis Stars" by John Kobal Foundation
American actors and friends Henry Fonda (1905 - 1982, left) and James Stewart (1908 - 1997) play a game of t...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Clark
s Great Escape" by John Kobal Foundation
Located in London, GB
"Clark's Great Escape" by John Kobal Foundation
17th October 1933: American actor Clark Gable (1901 - 1960) sitting in front of his car planning his journey with a map in front of h...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Mussolini In Uniform Of Army - Vintage Photograph 1937
Located in Roma, IT
'Mussolini In Uniform Of Army' is a b/w photographic print on glazed paper, the stamp of agency Trampus, Paris and cliché applied on the back, here Mussolini is in the uniform of the...
Category
1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Eroded Rock, Point Lobos
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This vintage or early silver gelatin print is signed, titled, dated, and numbered in pencil on the back of the print. This unmounted print was likely made in the 1930s.
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$12,000 Sale Price
20% Off
American abstract photograph by California artist Lloyd Ullberg circa 1938
Located in Colfax, CA
Surrealist photograph by Lloyd Ullberg from the 1930s.
Lloyd Ullberg was a highly talented self-taught American modernist photographer whose works were published in major American p...
Category
American Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
View to shopping passage, Stuttgart Germany 1935, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
The manoeuvres of the Brenner - Original Vintage Photo - 1935
Located in Roma, IT
The Manoeuvres of the Brenner is an original b/w photograph realized in 1935 by Agence Trampus, Paris. The original hallmark of the agency is present on the back. A piece of paper wi...
Category
1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Shadows with iron gate Residence castle Darmstadt, Germany 1938 Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Flooded Road (1939) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Flooded Road (1939) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Alfred Hind Robinson/Getty Images Archive)
A pedestrian attempts to leap across a flooded road near Hyde Park in London, ...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Lady walking the dog at Cafe Kriech, Stuttgart Germany 1935, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Brandenburg Gate with the Volkswagen beetle, Germany 1939 Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirties, Karl Heinrich Lämmel produced several photographic reports of cities, including Munich and Cologne. Photographs that have yet to be seen and appreciated. Lämmel's pictures show a different view of Germany. His documentation is an unparalleled and intriguing insight into the working and everyday life of the time. Impressive images of cities and their architecture before the destruction of WWII .
The print is new, a Premium-FineArt-Print ( Hahnemühle 308g ), it comes in a secure role without passpartout and frame to reduce shipping cost. This sizes are limited to 25 copies per size.
Description: Unterwegs mit dem KdF-Wagen, dem Volkswagen Käfer, in der Reichshauptstadt Berlin, Deutschland 1930er Jahre. Travelling by car in the Volkswagen beetle, or "KdF car", through Berlin, Germany 1930s.
Keywords: Deutschland; Germany; 1930er; 1930s; Reise; travel; VW; Käfer; Kaefer; beetle; KdF Wagen; Volkswagen; Deutschlandfahrt; Brezelfenster; Urform; Prototyp; Erlkönig; KdF; Kraft durch Freude; Ferdinand Porsche; Bela Barenyi; Brandenburger Tor; Brandenburg gate...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
St. Catherine
s church at Hamburg, Germany 1938, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Paris International Exhibition w Eiffel Tower, Silver Gelatin B and W Photograph
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Press Agency MONDIAL, Paris. March 31st, 1937, a view of The International Exhibition Construc...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Cristo, Tlacochahuaya, Oaxaca
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Paul Strand – American (1890-1976)
Title: Cristo, Tlacochahuaya, Oaxaca
Year: 1933, printed 1967, Da Capo Press, New York
Medium: Photogravure hand-printed from the original plates on BFK Rives paper
Publisher: Da Capo Press, 1967, New York
Sight size: 10 ¼ x 7 7/8 in. (260 x 200 mm)
Sheet size: 15 3/4 x 12 3/8 in. (402 x 313 mm)
Framed size: 17 x 14 inches
Edition:1000
Condition: Excellent
This hand-pulled photogravure is from Paul Strand’s Mexican Portfolio, first published in 1933. This photogravure is from the 2nd edition, published in 1967. It is in excellent condition. It is enclosed in a simple metal frame and Plexiglas only for protection.
A seminal work by a legendary figure in 20th century American photography, the photographs taken by the author on his travels through Mexico in 1932-33 show architecture, landscape, the indigenous people, and religious folk sculpture. Strand's work first made its appearance as "Photographs of Mexico" in a limited edition of 250 copies in 1940, with the printing of the steel-faced gravure plates by master platemaker Otto Wackernagel being supervised by Strand himself and executed by Charles Furth and the Photogravure and Color Company. The second edition used the original Wackernagel plates, printed by Albert Delong at the Andersen Lamb Company of Brooklyn. Strand was even more pleased with this version, stating "Delong has made these plates sing." The images are a celebration of the subjects' pride, dignity and endurance.
Paul Strand (1890–1976) is considered one of the most significant photographers of the 20th century. His breakthrough work in the 1910s heralded photography’s importance as a modern art form. Early in his career he broke from the soft, impressionistic Pictorialist style to produce among the first abstract images made with a camera. His questioning attitude led him to radically change his work multiple times in his career, always with the highest ambitions for the quality of his photographic prints. In 1932, Carlos Chavez, the director of the fine arts department at the Secretariat of Public Education in Mexico, invited Strand to Mexico. At this time, the Mexican government was concerned with demonstrating a national culture that was reflective of a burgeoning, modern, twentieth-century Mexico. In light of this, Chavez invited Strand to document the new social and physical environment. Over the next two years, Strand travelled around Mexico photographing...
Category
Realist 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Paper, Photogravure
Paris, The Buttes Chaumont Park 1930, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph. Paris, The Buttes Chaumont Park, circa 1930.
Features:
Original Silver Gelatin Print Photography.
Press Photography.
Titl...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Mussolini Greets The Crowd - Vintage Photo - 1935
Located in Roma, IT
'Mussolini Greets The Crowd' is a b/w photographic print on glazed paper. Stamp of agency Trampus, Paris and cliché applied on the back. The "French Patriotic Youth" attends a speech...
Category
1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Bridge river Neckar to Brueckentor gate Heidelberg, Germany 1936, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Paris, Street Construction Site, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography 1930
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Mondial Photo Presse, Paris, circa 1930. A construction site on a street in Paris.
Features:
Original silver gelatin print ph...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Karstadt-Haus at Hermannplatz, Berlin, 1937, Mauritius Publishing
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Heinz Pollmann. His are an unparalleled and intriguing insight into the working and everyday life of the time. I...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Karstadt-Haus at Hermannplatz, Berlin, 1937, Mauritius Publishing
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Heinz Pollmann. His are an unparalleled and intriguing insight into the working and everyday life of the time. I...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Sir Francis Drake Hotel San Francisco 1930, B and W Photography by Ralph Young
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Ralph Young Studios, San Francisco. View of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel building in 1930.
Features...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
RCA Building
Located in New York, NY
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Category
Art Deco 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Park Avenue, New York City
By Morris Engel
Located in Greenwich, CT
A couple on Park Avenue, NYC
Category
1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Industrial view - Genova harbor, Italy 1939 Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Nolte. His work is an unparalleled and intriguing insight into the working and everyday life of the time. Impress...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Disappeared Rome - Foro Traiano - Vintage Photo - 1932
Located in Roma, IT
Disappeared Rome - Foro Traiano is a vintagel photographic print on single-coated paper.
On the back "Fotovedo" ink agency stamp and handwritten note...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Mussolini Visits A Chemical Industry in Melegnano - Vintage Photo 1935
Located in Roma, IT
'Mussolini Visits A Chemical Industry' is a b/w photographic print on glazed paper, the stamp of agency Trampus, Paris and cliché applied on the back, here the Duce visits a chemical...
Category
1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Tee Off - silver gelatine print Oversize Golf
Located in London, GB
Golfer teeing off circa 1939. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts)
Beautiful large silver gelatine print of an elegant looking golfer
fashionably dressed teeing off during the late 1930...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Views of "Spina di Borgo" - Vintage Photos - 1936
Located in Roma, IT
Views of Spina di Borgo is a lot of two vintage single-coated photographic prints. On the back a violet stamp "Fotovedo Roma..." and some hand-written notes in lapis reporting the da...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Mussolini during Manoeuvres in Bozen - Vintage Photo - 1935
Located in Roma, IT
'Mussolini In Manoeuvres of Bolzano' is a b/w photographic print on glazed paper. Stamp of agency Trampus, Paris and cliché applied on the back, realized on 2 September 1935.
Fair c...
Category
1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Castle tower and St. Lambert
s church Duesseldorf, Germany 1937 Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Ships at Koenigsberg harbor in East Prussia, Germany 1937 Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirties, Karl Heinrich Lämmel produced several photographic reports of cities, including Munich and Cologne. Photographs that have yet to be seen and appreciated. Lämmel's pictures show a different view of Germany. His documentation is an unparalleled and intriguing insight into the working and everyday life of the time. Impressive images of cities and their architecture before the destruction of WWII .
The print is new, a Premium-FineArt-Print (Hahnemühle 308g), it comes in a secure role without passpartout and frame to reduce shipping cost. This sizes are limited to 25 copies per size.
Description: Schiffe im Hafen von Königsberg in Ostpreußen, Deutschland 1930er Jahre. Ships at Koenigsberg harbor in East Prussia...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Brassaï Original Black
White Photograph of a Street Fair
By Brassaï
Located in New York, NY
BRASSAI (Hungarian–French, 1899-1984)
Street Fair on the Place d'Italie, 1931
Medium: Sheet-fed Gravure
Printing Date: 1970's
Printed in the USA
Image: 10 1/2 x 8 inches
Framed: 14 1/2 x 12 inches
Although his real nameis Gyula Halasz, he took the name Brassai from his birthplace, and it means someone who comes from Brasov. He used the name all his adult life and is known throughout the world as Brassai.
He was of Hungarian ethnic origins. Brasov in Transylvania has been a part of Romania since the end of the First World War, and that region is still largely populated by ‘Romanain-Hungarians.’ Two of these became well known in the film industry: Bela Lugosi and Gabriel Pascal. When the Austro-Hungarian Empire was dismantled after the War, most of its territories were distributed amongst a number of nations. It was at this time that Transylvania returned to its earlier identity as part of Romania.
Brassai had served in the Austro-Hungarian cavalry for the last year of the War, 1917-1918. After he settled in Paris in 1924, Brassai never returned to his homeland, remaining in exile for the rest of his life. His parents continued to live in Brasov but joined him for long visits in Paris.
In 1949 Brassai became a French citizen, having been a stateless person since 1947. He fell in love with a French woman, Gilberte Boyer, and they married in 1948. Gilberte worked closely with her husband as he pursued his photographic career, helping him develop prints in his dark-room, and often writing descriptions of the subjects and personalities. It was also in 1949 that a book with 207 photographs of Picasso’s sculptures was published, with photographs by Brassai. He and Picasso became friends and the latter asked him to photograph his work for this volume. Brassai was a frequent visitor to Picasso’s studio and there he took several portraits of the artist.
Brassai has become one of the leading photographers of the twentieth century with collectors all over the world seeking his work. In an era which produced several brilliant and inspired photographers, not least Brassai’s friend Man Ray, he was able to capture a quality of magic in the atmosphere, bordering on the supernatural. Many of his pictures were taken at night or in fog, a frequent condition in Paris in the early part of the twentieth century. Even his day time photographs capture a moment of eerie transition between the mundane and the surreal. He is on the doorstep of another world where time stands still. Light becomes spectral as if it is the breath of an invisible power. Figures seem set in amber. Wet cobbles seem to slither and flow. A Master of capturing the ordinary, Brassai saw things as they were but transmuted the scene through his use of the lens into something outside the ordinary.
Brassai was a familiar figure prowling round Paris after dark with his camera and tripod and heavy bag of glass photographic plates. He was sometimes accompanied by Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, or Leon Paul...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photogravure
Copper sculpture of Hercules at Kassel, Germany 1937 Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Steering wheel on a ship, Germany 1937 Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirties, Karl Heinrich Lämmel produced several photographic reports of cities, including Munich and Cologne. Photographs that have yet to be seen and appreciated. Lämmel's pictures show a different view of Germany. His documentation is an unparalleled and intriguing insight into the working and everyday life of the time. Impressive images of cities and their architecture before the destruction of WWII .
The print is new, a Premium-FineArt-Print (Hahnemühle 308g), it comes in a secure role without passpartout and frame to reduce shipping cost. This sizes are limited to 25 copies per size.
Description: Steuerrad an Bord eines Schiffes auf der Linie Memel Königsberg auf der Ostsee in Ostpreußen, Deutschland 1930er Jahre. Steering wheel on a ship voyaging between Memel and Koenigsberg in East Prussia...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Freight ship "Samland" on the river, Germany 1934 Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
People on old bridge at Neckar to Heidelberg, Germany 1936, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Exploring the countryside in a Volkswagen beetle, Germany 1939 Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Protestant St. Martin
s church at Kassel, Germany 1937 Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Front of Wilhelmshoehe castle at Kassel, Germany 1937 Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
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