Jaromír Funke
[Still-Life Abstraction]

ArtistCzech, 1896–1945
CultureCzech
Titles
  • [Still-Life Abstraction]
Datec. 1923
PlaceCzechoslovakia
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 1/8 × 11 1/2 in. (23.2 × 29.2 cm)
Sheet: 9 1/8 × 11 1/2 in. (23.2 × 29.2 cm)
Mount: 19 1/2 × 17 1/2 in. (49.5 × 44.4 cm)
Credit LineThe Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection
Object number91.637
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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionThis still life of a sheet of glass, a mirror, and a half-filled water glass, all strongly lit from one side, is characteristic of the Czech artist’s signature style of making a photograph of complex space, created with a mirror, an object, and light. Although softly printed like Pictorialist photographs from earlier in the century, Funke’s photograph shares the abstract complexity of the most advanced modernist experiments that were just then emerging, works such as photograms by Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy.
Provenance[Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco]; The Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection, February 4, 1987; given to MFAH, 1991.
Exhibition History"Tradition and the Unpredictable: The Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 16–March 27, 1994.
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