Foto Ada (Elemérné Marsovszky)
Untitled

CultureHungarian
Titles
  • Untitled
Date1930s
PlacePoland
MediumHalftone print collage
DimensionsImage: 10 7/8 × 7 7/16 in. (27.6 × 18.9 cm)
Sheet: 10 7/8 × 7 7/16 in. (27.6 × 18.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Louisa Stude Sarofim in honor of Wallace S. Wilson on the occasion of his birthday
Object number98.332
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

The Hungarian artist Ada Ackermann, known as Foto Ada, was a studio photographer by day and by night produced surreal photomontages that expressed the social and political anxieties in the years leading up to World War II. In this image, the sailors and ships have become monstrous, with half-human and half-machine elements. In a climate of fear created by Nazi propaganda and the rise of fascism, these personal compositions were kept hidden from public view during Ackermann’s lifetime. Sadly, the artist disappeared in 1944, likely killed during the Nazi invasion of Budapest or sent to her death in a German concentration camp.



Provenance[Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco]; purchased by MFAH, 1998.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso bottom right corner in pencil "FAD 97 3.14"

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