Heinrich Kühn
Walther I

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

CultureAustrian

Titles

Walther I

Datec. 1908

MediumGum bichromate over platinum print

DimensionsImage: 11 9/16 × 9 1/8 in. (29.4 × 23.2 cm)
Sheet: 11 3/4 × 9 3/8 in. (29.8 × 23.8 cm)

Credit LineGift of Manfred Heiting, the Manfred Heiting Collection

Object number2004.554

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Manfred Heiting Collection of Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

Description

On both sides of the Atlantic, fine art photographers sought to make pictures that stood in contrast to commercial studios, industrial documentarians, and Sunday snapshooters. Heinrich Kühn chose intimate subjects in line with fine art traditions and utilized processes such as gum bichromate that allowed for painterly manipulation of the image during development. This portrait of his son Walther was one of many Kühn made of his children in the years following his wife’s death in 1906.

ProvenanceEx-collection Lotte Schönitzer-Kuehn; [Lunn Ltd, Washington, D.C.]; purchased by Manfred Heiting, May 22, 1979; given to MFAH, 2004.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Marked in pencil, verso: horizontal lines marking center of sheet
One vertical line at top center with crude circle
Right bottom: "glasplate stossi rech untello aks "[?]

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