Lotte's Eye
Artist
Max Burchartz(German, 1887–1961)German, 1887–1961
CultureGerman
Titles
- Lotte's Eye
- Lotte's Auge
Date1928
PlaceGermany
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 11 15/16 × 15 11/16 in. (30.3 × 39.9 cm)
Sheet: 11 15/16 × 15 11/16 in. (30.3 × 39.9 cm)
Sheet: 11 15/16 × 15 11/16 in. (30.3 × 39.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Manfred Heiting, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.735
Not on view
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Department
PhotographySpecial Collections
Object Type
During the 1920s, photographers pursued many strategies to push the medium beyond the accepted norms of photographic representation—images made without a camera, “bird’s eye” and “worm’s eye” perspectives, negative prints, and chemical manipulations, for instance. Here, Max Burchartz’s radical cropping transformed an utterly banal portrait of a freckle-faced young girl in a sweater and felt hat into an emotionally engaging, graphically powerful, and boldly modern image.
ProvenanceKurt Kirchbach, Freiburg im Breisgau, Switzerland, collected by 1933-1967; Hildegard Kirchbach, Basel, Switzerland, 1967-1995; Angelika and Hans-Joachim Burdack, Heitersheim Switzerland, 1995-1997;
[Sotheby’s, London, May 2, 1997]; Manfred Heiting, Amsterdam, 1997-2002; given to MFAH, 2002.
Exhibition HistoryFilm und Foto", Deutscher Wekbund, Stuttgart, 1929.
"Das Lichtbild", Folkwang Museum, Essen, 1931.
"Avant-Garde Photography in Germany", San Francisco Museum of Art, 1980.
"Happy Birthday Photography", Kunsthaus Zürich, 1989.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, verso, lower right corner: 41
Stamped in blue, verso, lower right: MHC 1525 [numbers in pencil]
Stamped in blue, verso, lower right: MHC 1525 [numbers in pencil]
Unsigned.
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