Eugene Von Bruenchenhein
[Marie]

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • [Marie]
Date1945–1951
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 3/16 × 7 in. (23.3 × 17.8 cm)
Sheet: 9 15/16 × 7 15/16 in. (25.2 × 20.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Barrett Reasoner and Robin Gibbs in honor of Susan Reasoner and Lela Gibbs at "One Great Night in November, 2016"
Object number2016.217
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionEugene Von Bruenchenhein was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee who worked in a variety of media. He set up a darkroom in his bathroom in the early 1940s and began photographing his wife, Marie, who posed nude or in stylish, often revealing costumes. Von Bruenchenhein transformed their home into a studio full of exotic stages on which Marie played the role of the glamour girl, frequently situated before backdrops with floral motifs. Numbering in the thousands, these photographs reveal the intimate, erotically charged relationship between husband and wife, artist and muse.
ProvenanceThe artist, d. 1983; Estate of artist; [Galerie Susanne Zander, Cologne, Germany];[Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2016.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, verso, bottom left corner: 181

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