Heinrich Kühn
The Meadow

ArtistAustrian, 1866–1944
CultureAustrian
Titles
  • The Meadow
Date1898
MediumBromoil print
DimensionsImage: 26 1/4 × 19 1/16 in. (66.6 × 48.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2014.641
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionThe Viennese photographer Heinrich Kühn was among the leading European Pictorialists at the turn of the century, remarkable for his intimate portraits and his large, colorful, and painterly landscapes reminiscent of Impressionism. Kühn used gum bichromate, a pigment process that yields prints that often resemble paintings, pastels, or drawings in red chalk or charcoal. At a time when the Kodak sales slogan promised amateur snapshooters “You press the button, we do the rest,” and when photography already seemed to permeate all aspects of life, photographic artists like Kühn sought to prove that their medium could rival the scale, beauty, and expressiveness of the traditional arts.
Provenance[Manfred Heiting, Malibu, California]; purchased by MFAH, 2014.
Exhibition History“A History of Photography II: Selections from the Museum's Collection,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 17–July 19, 2015.

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Sonnenbild im Atelier
Heinrich Kühn
1914–1918
Multiple bromoil transfer print
2004.548
Karaffe mit Blumen
Heinrich Kühn
c. 1913
Bromoil print
2004.559
Akt in der Morgensonne
Heinrich Kühn
c. 1920
Bromoil print
2004.549
Frauentorso im Sonnenlicht
Heinrich Kühn
c. 1920
Multiple bromoil transfer print
2002.1501
Jars in the Sunlight
Heinrich Kühn
c. 1915
Bromoil print
91.794
[Edeltrude and Hans]
Heinrich Kühn
no date
Gum bichromate print
2023.634
Der Bildhauer Professor Hans Perathoner
Heinrich Kühn
1906–1907
Platinum print
2004.555
Hans
Heinrich Kühn
c. 1908
Gum bichromate over platinum print
2004.558
Walther
Heinrich Kühn
c. 1905
Gum bichromate over platinum print
2004.557
Nacktes Paar
Heinrich Kühn
c. 1907
Gum bichromate print
2004.553
Morgentoilette (Mary Warner)
Heinrich Kühn
1907
Gum bichromate print
2004.550
Rider, Standing
Heinrich Kühn
c. 1909
Gum bichromate over platinum print
2004.556