Heinrich Kühn
Walther, Edeltrude, and Hans Kühn

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

CultureAustrian

Titles

Walther, Edeltrude, and Hans Kühn

Datec. 1905

MediumPlatinum/palladium print

DimensionsImage: 11 5/8 × 12 5/8 in. (29.5 × 32.1 cm)
Sheet: 11 5/8 × 12 5/8 in. (29.5 × 32.1 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mike and Mickey Marvins

Object number2013.717

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Marvins Family Collections

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionAbout 1904–5, inspired in part by his contact with the American photographer, publisher, and gallerist Alfred Stieglitz and by having seen the outdoor figural compositions of the American Pictorialists Gertrude Käsebier and Clarence White, the Viennese photographer Heinrich Kühn turned from monumental landscapes and carefully composed still lifes to intimate and informal images of his four children and their nanny, often out-of-doors in the countryside. Walther, Edeltrude, and Hans Kühn is an almost dreamlike depiction of childhood innocence: three young siblings, dressed in white, hand in hand, playing ring-around-the-rosy on a hillside of wildflowers, all rendered in delicate tones that imbue the scene with an Impressionist sensibility.
Provenance[Rudolf Kicken Gallery, Berlin, 1990]; purchased by Michael Marvins and Michele Marvins, Houston, 1990; given to MFAH, 2013.
Exhibition History“A Photographer’s Collection: Gifts from Michael and Michele Marvins,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 4–July 5, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscribed RK-HL 2288 - 1QT2/8108020 verso in pencil.

Printed label on verso from The Private Eye exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston from June 11-August 13, 1989.

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