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Robert Frank
Elevator - Miami Beach (from the series: The Americans), 1955
Gelatin silver print, printed before 1989
22.9 x 33.3 cm (27.7 x 35.5 cm)
Estimate €30,000 - 40,000
Lot 80 / Auction 1098 Photography

Lempertz - Photography

Vernissage: Friday, 24 November 2017 18:00

Preview: Saturday 25th November 10:00 – 16:00 | Sunday 26th November 11:00 – 15:00 |
Monday 27th Nov – Thursday 30th November 10:00 – 17:30

Further information:

Lempertz

Neumarkt 3 . 50667 Cologne / Germany
Experts: Maren Klinge M.A. & Dr. Christine Nielsen
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Heinrich Kühn
Miss Mary, 1908
Gum dichromate over platinum print
29.3 x 23.3 cm (29.8 x 23.8 cm)
Estimate €8,000 - 10,000
Lot 216 / Auction 1098 Photography

Auction 1098 | Heinrich Kühn. Sixty Photographs | Friday, 1st December 2017 16:00

Online Catalogue: Heinrich Kühn. Sixty Photographs

Highlight of this autumn’s photography sale is an important collection of 60 photographs by Heinrich Kühn (1866 – 1944). This rare selection of exceptionally fine works is sure to resonate well with collectors.

What makes this group of works from South German private ownership so special is the exceptional quality of the individual sheets, the range and variety of the subjects, and the perfection with which they are printed. Kühn was a master of various printing techniques: Gum dichromate, gum dichromate over platinum, photogravure, oil transfer print, and - his favourite method in his later years - the multiple oil transfer print. Kühn’s goal was to establish photography as an artistic medium on par with painting. His photographs are characterised by their impressionist blurring, which separates his work as an ambitious "art photographer" from the products of other professional photographers in the early 20th century. Kühn’s favoured motifs, including landscapes, figures in landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and nudes, are all to be found among the lots on offer. The sale also includes several of his well-known "tonal value studies" in which Kühn experimented with transferring visual impressions into monochromatic images. One of the highlights of the collection is a portrait taken by Kühn in 1904 of his friend and fellow photographer Alfred Stieglitz, a key player in the American Pictorialist movement (lot 206, €10 – 15,000). Both this work and the self-portrait of the photographer have never been offered before at auction (lot 206, €10,000 – 15,000).

Otto Steinert
Die Lampen der Place de la Concorde, 1952
Vintage or early ferrotyped gelatin silver print
24 x 34 cm
Estimate €9,000 - 12,000
Lot 63 / Auction 1098 Photography

Auction 1098 | Photography | Friday, 1st December 2017 14:00

Online Catalogue: Photography

The photography auction will begin with a series of exceptionally well-preserved works by Wilhelm von Gloeden and Gugielmo Plüschow, some originating from the Texbraun Collection, Paris (lot 6 – 13, from €1,200 – 1,500 to €1,500 – 2,000). The special catalogue of photographs by Heinrich Kühn is enriched in the regular Photography auction by another pictorialist highlight: A mountainous landscape from around 1900 by Hans Watzek, an acquaintance of Kühn who passed away at a tragically young age. Notes on the reverse of the piece indicate that it was probably used as a printing template in the magazine "Camera Work" (lot 14, €3,000 – 4,000). The photograph was formerly owned by Heinrich Kühn.

Alfred Stieglitz, mentioned above, is also represented in this autumn’s sale by a photogravure of his work from 1907 entitled "The Steerage", a print on thin Japan paper in excellent condition, taken from the "Camera Work" journal. Looking back on his career, Stieglitz himself regarded this image as his most important work, and it is considered a prime example of the American Straight Photography movement, which superseded Pictorialism (lot 48, €4,000 – 5,000).

The sale also includes a significant number of important photographs depicting the German "Neues Bauen" architectural style of the 20s and 30s. Among these are three weighty assorted lots of the most important architectural exhibitions of the period: The Werkbundausstellung with the Weißenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart in 1927, the exhibition "Damerstock-Siedlung. Die Gebrauchswohnung" in Karlsruhe, and "Das Wachsendes Haus" in Berlin (lots 30, 31, and 34, from €5,000 – 6,000 to €8,000 – 10,000). Alongside the vintage photographs taken by Dr. Otto Lossen, Arthur Köster and other architectural photographers, which provide comprehensive documentation of the exhibitions, the lots also include letters and other documents such as an original exhibition catalogue and a pamphlet from the Dammerstock exhibition in Karlsruhe designed by the Merz artist Kurt Schwitters (lot 31).

Dr. Lossen & Co.
Weißenhofsiedlung, Stuttgart, 1927
(from a convolut of 12 vintage gelatin silver prints)
From 16.7 x 22.5 cm to 22.6 x 28.8 cm, both portrait and landscape formats
Estimate €6,000 - 8,000
Lot 30 / Auction 1098 Photography

Top lots among the German post war photography on offer include three vintage and some early prints by Otto Steinert, founder of "fotoform". A pristine copy of "Lampen der Place de la Concorde" from 1952 (lot 63, €9,000 – 12,000), the "2. Portrait hell-dunkel" from 1950 (lot 61, €6,000 – 8,000), and "Bäume in Solfatare" from 1964, as an exhibition print made before 1976 (lot 62, €6,000 – 8,000). There will also be an assorted lot of works by Ludwig Windstosser, another "fotoform" artist, in excellent condition comprising 18 photographs of industrial complexes for the "Mannesmann" Company in the original box from the 1950s (lot 64, €14,000 – 16,000).

Both collectors of classic French post-war photography and modern art should be happy to see a vintage print of the portrait "Giacometti à la porte de son atelier" by Brassaï from 1948 (lot 42, €4,000 – 5,000).

Making a rare appearance on the German auction market are photographs by the Swiss-American Robert Frank. His shot "Elevator – Miami Beach", showing a young and melancholy hotel employee going about her dreary work, was one of 83 motifs chosen by Frank for his legendary 1955 photobook "The Americans". It is available here as a later print purchased directly from the photographer (lot 80, €30,000 – 40,000).

Friends of classic nudes will be wowed by a wide selection of works by artists such as Heinz Hajek-Halke (lot 20, €6,000 – 8,000), Man Ray (lot 45, €3,500), André Steiner (lot 46/47, each €1,000), Jeanloup Sieff (lots 103/104, €2,000 to 3,000), and Bryan Adams (lot 154, €5,000 – 6,000).

Peter Hujar
Palermo Catacombs #8, skull in window, 1963
Vintage gelatin silver print
35.5 x 28 cm
Estimate €10,000 - 12,000
Lot 113 / Auction 1098 Photography

The American Peter Hujar’s "Memento Mori" images of the Catacombs of Palermo are both rare and moving. His "Skull in window" from 1963 is offered here as a particularly fine vintage print (lot 113, €10,000 – 12,000). Another poignant work is Sebastião Salgado’s series from 1986 documenting the abysmal working conditions of day labourers in the Brasilian "Serra Pelada" gold mine (lot 149, €8,000 – 10,000).

Kim In Sook
Saturday Night, 2007/2010
Lightbox
157.5 x 251 x 16 cm (total dimensions)
Estimate €30,000 - 40,000
Lot 645 / Auction 1100 Contemporary Art + Photography

Auction 1100 | Contemporary Art and Photography | Sat 2nd December 2017 14:00

Online Catalogues: Contemporary Art 1 | Contemporary Art 2

The Contemporary Art and Photography sale will include quintessential works of the Düsseldorf School. Photographic highlight in this sale is "Schwimmbad Ratingen" by Andreas Gursky, a chromogenic print from 1987 (lot 635, €18,000 – 22,000). Alongside this you will find two large-format nudes from Thomas Ruff’s eponymous series (lot 814/815, from €15,0000 – 20,000 to €25,000 – 30,000) as well as two Parisian libraries by Candida Höfer from the 1990s, both medium sized works from the edition of six (lot 816/817, €6,000 – 8,000 and €8,000 – 10,000).

The Contemporary Photography offer showcases a broad range of international artists: The Korean photographer Kim In Sook is represented by two works from her well known series of nocturnal building facades, one mounted over a lightbox (lot 645/646, €25,000 – 30,000 and €30,000 – 40,000). The Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra is known for presenting her subjects alone in the centre of the image before a neutral background. The two works in this sale both depict young girls and were taken in Brighton, England and Odessa, Ukraine (lot 869/870, €5,000 – 6,000 and €15,000 – 20,000). Photographs by Nan Goldin (lot 789, €3,500 – 4,500), Tina Barney (lot 468/469, each €4,000 – 6,000), and Doug Hall (lots 741 – 743, from €3,500 – 4,500 to €6,000 – 8,000) demonstrate the diversity of American photographic art.

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