| | | | | | | | Auction 1246/lot 529
Aenne Biermann
Helga, c. 1930
Vintage gelatin silver print
21.5 x 17.8 cm
Estimate € 8,000 – 10,000 | | | Lempertz – Photography | | | Auction 1246
Photography | Tuesday, 4 June, 2024, 2 pm (lots 500 – 682)
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Auction 1247
Evening Sale | Tuesday, 4 June, 2024, 6 pm (lots 1 – 70)
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Auction 1248
Day Sale | Wednesday, 5 June, 2024, 2 pm (lots 300 – 433)
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Dr. Richard Neuhauss
Self portrait, 1901
Interferential photograph (Lippmann process)
6.9 x 4.7 cm (8.5 x 6.3 x 1.9 cm)
Estimate € 6,000 – 8,000 | | | | | | Auction 1246 Classical Photography
A highlight of museum quality is the early interference colour photograph by Dr. Richard Neuhauss from 1901. The Berlin medical doctor and anthropologist was also a pioneer in the exploration of photographic processes. He took up the process developed by the Luxembourg physicist Gabriel Lippmann, presented to the Paris Academy of Sciences in 1894 and named after him, in order to further develop it for his own research purposes. The "self-portrait" from 1901 shows Neuhauss in a checked housecoat, a particularly suitable accessory for his photographic purposes (lot 501, estimate € 6/8000).
The transition to classical photography of the first half of the 20th century takes the form of a vintage print of a leaf study: "Silphium Laciniatum (Compass Plant)" by Karl Blossfeldt, in excellent condition (lot 506, € 20/25,000). Alfred Ehrhardt's large-format vintage print "Sandformen, Kurische Nehrung", also in very good condition, is exemplary of his New Objectivity photographs of natural forms and structures in the 1930s (lot 505, € 2500/3000). "Mädchen im Kirmeswagen" by August Sander, here as a print by Gunther Sander, is one of the most sought-after motifs of Sander's opus People of the Twentieth Century (lot 503, € 3500/4000). A series of photographs by Albert Renger-Patzsch - above all his famous "Bäumchen" from 1929 as a large-format vintage print (lot 507, € 40/50,000) - show various facets of his New Objectivity landscape photography of the pre-war and immediate post-war years (lots 510-513, from € 2500/3000 to 3500/4000). | | | | | | | | | Auction 1246/lot 506
Karl Blossfeldt
Silphium Laciniatum, 1915-25
Vintage gelatin silver print
29.8 x 23.7 cm
Estimate € 20,000 – 25,000 | | | | | | Aenne Biermann's youthful portrait of her daughter "Helga", a high-quality vintage print from around 1930 (lot 529, € 8/10,000), is almost iconic for the photography of Neues Sehen (New Vision), whilst "Self-Portrait with Leica" by Ilse Bing from 1931 epitomises the image of the modern woman in the Weimar Republic, here in the form of a later print by Abe Frajndlich (lot 528, € 3/4000). Bauhaus Photography forms a special thematic focus of the auction, with works by various photographers from two private collections. Of particular note are the architectural photographs of Bauhaus buildings by T. Lux Feininger (lots 517/520, € 2000/2500 and 3/4000) and Lucia Moholy (lot 522, € 2500/3000), as well as the latter's subject photographs of Bauhaus designs (lots 521/524, € 1800/2000 and € 4/5000 respectively).
The large-format photograph of an anti-war collage "Niemals wieder!" (Never again!) by John Heartfield in the form of a GDR poster design is an impressive period document from 1959, which emerged from various earlier versions from 1930-32 (lot 548, € 2500/3000). The works of Peter Keetman are representative of the contemporaneous West German post-war photography, with eight works on offer, including a self portrait and the famous "Schallplatte" as a vintage print (lots 560/561, € 1800/2000 and € 2500/3000 respectively). The non-figurative gelatin silver paintings by Chargesheimer, two of which are in the auction (lots 580/581, € 2500/3000 each), form an artistic counterpoint to Keetman's fotoform photography. | | | | | | | | | Auction 1246/lot 596
Diane Arbus
Lady Bartender at Home with a Souvenir Dog, New Orleans, LA, 1964
Gelatin silver print on Agfa paper, printed later by Neil Selkirk
From an edition of 75
Estimate € 12,000 – 15,000 | | | | | | US American photography of the second half of the 20th century is represented in this catalogue by big names and famous motifs. A piece of scientific photography by Berenice Abbott, for example, is offered in aesthetic perfection: "Van De Graaff Generator, Cambridge/MA" from 1958 as a large-format gelatin silver print (lot 556, € 5/6000). The name Joel Meyerowitz is synonymous with New Colour photography in the USA, represented by a rare vintage contact print of "Red Interior, Provincetown" from 1977 (lot 604, € 3/4000). Robert Mapplethorpe portrayed his favourite model "Phillip Prioleau" in 1979 seated on a pedestal in various positions. The gelatin silver print offered here shows the back view of the artist's muse (lot 597, € 8/10,000). For the photograph "Schiaparelli Jacket with Tinsel and Glass" - here as a platinum-palladium print - Irving Penn created a surrealistic-looking portrait by arranging a figurine and exhibits from an exhibition on haute couture of the 1920s and 1930s at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (lot 606, € 10/15,000). In the humorous double portrait "Lady Bartender at Home with a Souvenir Dog, New Orleans, LA" from 1964, Diane Arbus shows a bartender in her domestic ambience (lot 596, € 12/15,000).
Fashion and glamour photography round off this season's offerings once again. Albert Watson offers a back nude of "Kate Moss, Marrakech" from 1993 (lot 664, € 4/5000), whilst Peter Lindbergh shows a fragile "Nadja Auermann" in the Mojave Desert in California (lot 665, € 12/15,000). | | | | | | | | | Auction 1247/lot 47
Candida Höfer
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg Herzog & de Meuron, 2016
Chromogenic print, flush-mounted to aluminium composite panel
139.5 x 157.5 cm (184 x 201.5 cm frame)
From an edition of 6
Estimate € 40,000 – 50,000 | | | Auction 1247 / 1248 Contemporary Art and Photography
A large-format exterior view of Hamburg's "Elbphilharmonie" by the architects Herzog & de Meuron by Candida Höfer will be called as part of the Evening Sale following the Photography Auction (lot 47, € 40/50,000). Further high-priced works by contemporary photographers will be auctioned the following day in the Day Sale on 5th June, including three portraits of famous pop icons by Bettina Rheims (lots 418-420, € 10/15,000 each), the replica of a "Fotoecke/Photobooth" in a GDR prison by Thomas Demand (lot 406, € 25/30,000) and the large-format lightbox "Saturday Night", in which the Korean photographer Kim In Sook assembled 66 different nocturnal scenarios under a house roof using a montage technique (lot 426, € 25/30,000). | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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