Heinrich Kühn
Walther I

ArtistAustrian, 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
Object Type
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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