Max Burchartz
Lotte's Eye

Lotte's Eye

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Lotte's Eye
Lotte's Eye
ArtistGerman, 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)
Credit LineGift of Manfred Heiting, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.735
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


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.



ProvenanceEx-collection: Kurt Kirchbach (Helene Anderson collection); Sotheby's, London, May 2, 1997, lot 15.

Bought by Manfred Heiting from Sotheby's London, on 5/1/1993.
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]
Unsigned.

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