Jindřich Heisler
Photo-graphique

CultureCzech
Titles
  • Photo-graphique
  • from the cycle As Bad as Each Other
Date1944
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 1/8 × 9 3/8 in. (18 × 23.9 cm)
Sheet: 7 1/8 × 9 3/8 in. (18 × 23.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Louisa Stude Sarofim
Object number98.188
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Poet
and photographer Jindrˇich Heisler’s career was cut short by his sudden death
at age 38, but during that brief time he produced some of the most courageous
and remarkable works of the Czech Surrealist movement. Heisler joined the
movement in 1938, just as the Nazi occupation was driving it underground.



Heisler, a Jew, refused to respond to the 1941
Nazi summons requiring non-Aryans to register with the state, and he hid in
fellow artist Toyen’s apartment for most of the war. While in hiding, Heisler
created an extraordinary series of photographic works, including Photo-graphique, which is among his most
experimental. It portrays a deformed figure, created by arranging white flour
on a black background, in a distinctly dreamlike, Surrealist style.


Provenance[Ubu Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1998.
Exhibition History"Utopia/ Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 11 March - 10 June, 2012.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscription: In ink, lower right: "D17."
The photograph is signed in ink, verso: "Jindrich Heisler Photo-graphique du cycle De la meme farime / 1944."

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Jindřich Heisler
1943
Gelatin silver print, photomontage
98.187
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1943
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