Heinrich Kühn
Sonnenbild im Atelier

ArtistAustrian, 1866–1944
CultureAustrian
Titles
  • Sonnenbild im Atelier
  • Sun in the Studio
Date1914–1918
MediumMultiple bromoil transfer print
DimensionsImage: 11 × 7 7/8 in. (28 × 20 cm)
Sheet: 14 1/16 × 10 1/2 in. (35.7 × 26.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Manfred Heiting, the Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2004.548
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 208
Exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

The Viennese photographer Heinrich Kühn was among the leading figures of international Pictorialism at the turn of the century, a movement that presented photography as equal in artistic control and expression to the other fine arts. Like many of his peers, he favored intimate subjects, focusing on his friends and family in domestic settings. This photograph, however, suggests a transition from the soft-focus style of Pictorialism to a more Modernist aesthetic. Although it depicts Kühn’s studio, the play of light, pattern of lines, and abstracted forms of off-kilter boards are what take center stage.


ProvenanceEx-collection Lotte Schönitzer-Kuehn; Galerie Rudolf Kicken, Cologne.

Bought by Manfred Heiting from Galerie Rudolf Kicken GmbH on 12/1/1977.
Exhibition History"Heinrich Kuhn: The Perfect Photograph," Albertina, Vienna, June 11–September 12, 2010; Musee National de l'Orangerie, Paris, October 19, 2010–January 23, 2011; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 6–May 30, 2011.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked in pencil, verso, upper right corner: "heg 12"; lower left corner: "MHC 1388"
Vertical and horizontal pencil lines marking center of sheet
There is no evident signature.

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

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