Heinrich Kühn
The Meadow

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Artist Heinrich Kühn (Austrian, 1866–1944)Austrian, 1866–1944

CultureAustrian

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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, The Manfred Heiting Collection

Object number2014.641

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Photography

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Manfred Heiting Collection of Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

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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