Franz Roh
Fotogramm

Fotogramm
Fotogramm
Fotogramm
ArtistGerman, 1890–1965
CultureGerman
Titles
  • Fotogramm
Datec. 1922
PlaceMunich, Germany
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 3/16 × 9 7/16 in. (18.3 × 24 cm)
Sheet: 7 3/16 × 9 7/16 in. (18.3 × 24 cm)
Credit LineGift of Manfred Heiting, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.2003
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Like László Moholy-Nagy, his colleague at the innovative German design
school the Bauhaus, and his contemporary Man Ray in Paris, Franz Roh used
photographic materials in untraditional ways. Here, he set a comb, wine glass,
and light bulb on a sheet of photographic paper and exposed it to light. When
developed, the paper revealed a nearly abstract composition that recorded the
shadows of the objects as white against a dark ground. Perhaps without knowing
it, artists making such cameraless images, or “photograms,” in the 1920s echoed
the earli­est surviving photographs, which similarly recorded the shadows of plants,
feathers, lace, and other objects.




ProvenanceFormer Bertonati assistant; [Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne]; purchased by Manfred Heiting, June 11, 1994; given to MFAH, 2002.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in red, verso, top center edge: 130 [underlined]
Stamped in blue, verso, upper left corner: dr. franz roh [underlined] // münchen 39 // pickelstrasse 11 // telefon 60277
Inscribed in pencil, verso, upper left: 85280[circled]
Inscribed in pencil, verso, upper left: fotogramm, FR
Stamped in purple, verso, upper left side: NACHLASS FRANZ ROH
Inscribed in pencil, verso upper left: fotogramm, FR

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