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Da collezione personale, rara  fotoincisione  (photogravure)  di Germaine Krull (Poznan 1897 - Wetzlar 1985) originale del 1926 dal titolo: - Nude Study. Berlin 1925 -  splendidamente stampata nei toni seppia.

La fotoincisione presenta leggeri segni d'uso non fotografabili.

dimensioni immagine 151x192 mm
dimensioni foglio 214x253 mm
dimensioni passepartout 50x40 cm

La foto viene venduta unitamente al passepartout a cartella di qualità museale e da certificato di autenticità (come da immagini).
La cornice non fa parte del lotto e non viene venduta insieme alla foto.

Imballo professionale in robusto cartone polionda incrociato.

Germaine Krull è stata una pioniera nei campi del fotomontaggio d'avanguardia, del libro fotografico e del fotogiornalismo, e ha abbracciato sia lealtà commerciali che artistiche. Nata a Wilda-Poznań, nella Prussia orientale, nel 1897, Krull visse una vita straordinaria durata nove decenni in quattro continenti: era il prototipo della Neue Frau (Nuova Donna) sessualmente libera e tagliente, considerata un'icona della modernità. Ha studiato fotografia dal 1916 al 1918 al Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Lichtbildwesen (Istituto didattico e di ricerca per la fotografia) e nel 1919 ha aperto il suo studio di ritratti. Il suo precoce impegno con l'attivismo politico di sinistra portò alla sua espulsione da Monaco. Poi, durante una visita in Russia nel 1921, fu incarcerata per il suo sostegno controrivoluzionario alla causa della Francia libera contro Lenin. Nel 1926 si stabilì a Parigi, dove strinse amicizia con gli artisti Sonia e Robert Delaunay e con gli intellettuali André Malraux, Jean Cocteau, Colette e André Gide, che furono anche soggetti dei suoi ritratti fotografici.
La svolta artistica di Krull iniziò nel 1928, quando fu assunta dalla nascente rivista VU, il primo grande settimanale illustrato francese. Insieme ai fotografi André Kertész e Éli Lotar, ha sviluppato una nuova forma di reportage radicata nella libertà di espressione e nella vicinanza ai suoi soggetti che ha portato a primi piani intimi, il tutto facilitato dalla sua Icarette di piccolo formato, una fotocamera portatile e pieghevole. . Durante questo periodo pubblicò il portfolio Metal (Métal) (1928), una raccolta di 64 immagini di giganti modernisti del ferro, tra cui gru, ferrovie, generatori di corrente, il ponte trasportatore di Rotterdam e la Torre Eiffel, scattate da angolazioni vertiginose. Krull partecipò all'influente mostra Film und Foto, o Fifo, (1929–30). Fifo ha segnato l'emergere di una nuova teoria critica della fotografia che ha posto Krull in prima linea nella fotografia Neues Sehen o Neue Optik (Nuova Visione), una nuova direzione radicata nell'esplorazione completa delle possibilità tecniche del mezzo fotografico attraverso una profusione di obiettivi non convenzionali. tecniche basate e di camera oscura. Dopo la fine della seconda guerra mondiale, viaggiò nel sud-est asiatico, per poi trasferirsi in India, dove, dopo una vita dedicata a registrare alcuni dei maggiori sconvolgimenti del XX secolo, decise di vivere da reclusa tra i monaci tibetani.

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From a personal collection, rare photogravure by Germaine Krull (Poznan 1897 - Wetzlar 1985) original from 1926 entitled: - Nude Study. Berlin 1925 - beautifully printed in sepia tones.

The photoengraving shows light signs of use that cannot be photographed.

image dimensions 151x192 mm
sheet dimensions 214x253 mm
mat dimensions 50x40 cm

The photo is sold together with a museum-quality folder mat and a certificate of authenticity (as shown in the images).
The frame is not part of the lot and is not sold together with the photo.

Professional packaging in sturdy cross-corrugated cardboard.

Germaine Krull was a pioneer in the fields of avant-garde photomontage, the photo book and photojournalism, and she embraced both commercial and artistic loyalties. Born in Wilda-Poznań, East Prussia, in 1897, Krull lived an extraordinary life spanning nine decades on four continents: she was the prototype of the sexually liberated and edgy Neue Frau (New Woman), considered an icon of modernity. She studied photography from 1916 to 1918 at the Bavarian State School of Photography (Bavarian State University of Photography) and opened her own portrait studio in 1919. Her early involvement with left-wing political activism led to her expulsion from Munich. Then, during a visit to Russia in 1921, she was imprisoned for her counter-revolutionary support of the Free French cause against Lenin. In 1926, she settled in Paris, where she befriended artists Sonia and Robert Delaunay and intellectuals André Malraux, Jean Cocteau, Colette, and André Gide, who were also the subjects of her photographic portraits. Krull’s artistic breakthrough began in 1928, when she was hired by the nascent magazine VU, France’s first major illustrated weekly. Together with photographers André Kertész and Éli Lotar, she developed a new form of reportage rooted in freedom of expression and closeness to her subjects that resulted in intimate close-ups, all facilitated by her small-format Icarette, a portable, foldable camera. . During this period, she published the portfolio Metal (Métal) (1928), a collection of 64 images of modernist iron giants, including cranes, railways, power generators, the Rotterdam Transporter Bridge, and the Eiffel Tower, shot from dizzying angles. Krull participated in the influential Film und Foto, or Fifo, exhibition (1929–30). Fifo marked the emergence of a new critical theory of photography that placed Krull at the forefront of Neues Sehen or Neue Optik (New Vision) photography, a new direction rooted in the full exploration of the technical possibilities of the photographic medium through a profusion of unconventional lens-based and darkroom techniques. After the end of World War II, she traveled to Southeast Asia, eventually settling in India, where, after a life devoted to recording some of the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century, she settled into seclusion among Tibetan monks.






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Germaine Krull (1897–1985) - Nude Study. Berlin 1925

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