CATEGORY: PHOTOGRAPHS
This vintage print bares no marks like copyright credits, stamps, annotations or a signature). Based on research including the provenance (Prague, Czech Republic), the time of printing (1925-1930), the theme, the similarity of the model compared to other works and the high quality of execution, we attribute this photograph to the early Czechoslovakian master photographer František Drtikol (1883-1961).
Provenance: Greisen Auction (adhesive sticker on backside of passe-partout). Described by them as: 502. Unknown Author, Female Nude, Undated, Vintage print, Unsigned, USD 800.
Creator:
František Drtikol (1883-1961), attributed
Object:
Photograph, gelatin silver print.
Country:
Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic, Slovakia
Design period:
1920s
Production period:
1920s
Identifying marks:
No
Style:
Fine art nude
Condition:
In good condition.
Material:
Gelatin silver print on baryta paper, double matted
Colour:
Black & White
Dimensions:
Image W 13.7 x H 19.1 cm | paper W 21.0 x H 29.7 cm
Biography:
František Drtikol (Příbram, March 3, 1883 - Prague, January 13, 1961) was a Czech photographer. Drtikol actually wanted to become a painter, but his father chose photography for him, in which he trained in Munich. After working for various European studios, he opened his first studio in Prague in 1907. He initially photographed mainly landscapes and portraits, with pictorialist techniques, influenced by Symbolism and Art Nouveau. From 1914 he also began to make nude studies, in a dynamic style that gradually became more modernist. Influences of Cubism and Futurism are clearly recognizable. He tried to create balanced geometric shapes through balanced body postures in combination with light and shadow effects. Drtikol also became known as one of the first to work with cutouts, often resembling silhouettes of the human body, a technique he called "photopurism". He often incorporated these cutouts into collage-like compositions.
In the 1920s Drtikol won several international prizes and published several photo books, of which Le nus de Drtikol (1929) is best known. After he sold his photo studio in 1935, he focused mainly on painting, especially Buddhist, religious and philosophical themes. However, his fame as an artist quickly deteriorated as a painter and he died lonely and forgotten in Prague in 1961, aged 77. He is generally considered the most important Czech photographer before the Second World War.
This vintage print bares no marks like copyright credits, stamps, annotations or a signature). Based on research including the provenance (Prague, Czech Republic), the time of printing (1925-1930), the theme, the similarity of the model compared to other works and the high quality of execution, we attribute this photograph to the early Czechoslovakian master photographer František Drtikol (1883-1961).
Provenance: Greisen Auction (adhesive sticker on backside of passe-partout). Described by them as: 502. Unknown Author, Female Nude, Undated, Vintage print, Unsigned, USD 800.
Creator:
František Drtikol (1883-1961), attributed
Object:
Photograph, gelatin silver print.
Country:
Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic, Slovakia
Design period:
1920s
Production period:
1920s
Identifying marks:
No
Style:
Fine art nude
Condition:
In good condition.
Material:
Gelatin silver print on baryta paper, double matted
Colour:
Black & White
Dimensions:
Image W 13.7 x H 19.1 cm | paper W 21.0 x H 29.7 cm
Biography:
František Drtikol (Příbram, March 3, 1883 - Prague, January 13, 1961) was a Czech photographer. Drtikol actually wanted to become a painter, but his father chose photography for him, in which he trained in Munich. After working for various European studios, he opened his first studio in Prague in 1907. He initially photographed mainly landscapes and portraits, with pictorialist techniques, influenced by Symbolism and Art Nouveau. From 1914 he also began to make nude studies, in a dynamic style that gradually became more modernist. Influences of Cubism and Futurism are clearly recognizable. He tried to create balanced geometric shapes through balanced body postures in combination with light and shadow effects. Drtikol also became known as one of the first to work with cutouts, often resembling silhouettes of the human body, a technique he called "photopurism". He often incorporated these cutouts into collage-like compositions.
In the 1920s Drtikol won several international prizes and published several photo books, of which Le nus de Drtikol (1929) is best known. After he sold his photo studio in 1935, he focused mainly on painting, especially Buddhist, religious and philosophical themes. However, his fame as an artist quickly deteriorated as a painter and he died lonely and forgotten in Prague in 1961, aged 77. He is generally considered the most important Czech photographer before the Second World War.
