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Lot Essay
Heinrich Kühn découvre la photographie pendant ses études de médecine et de sciences naturelles. Il s’y plonge entièrement à partir de 1890, développant le style pictorialiste qui l’amène à rejoindre le Vienna Camera Club. Kühn entretenait des liens avec l’avant-garde de son temps, la Sécession viennoise, regroupée autour de Gustav Klimt et caractérisée par le désir de créer une synthèse des différentes disciplines artistiques. Il a été par la suite influencé par son ami et photographe américain Alfred Stieglitz ; grâce à son influence, il se libère en partie des conventions du pictorialisme et expérimente des compositions audacieuses et des cadrages en contre-plongée.
Ici la technique du bromoil sert parfaitement cette belle nature morte, aux contours flous et à l’ambiance enveloppante qui rappelle les intérieurs de Vermeer et préfigure les compositions de Morandi.
Heinrich Kühn came to photography while studying medicine and natural sciences. Becoming fully immersed in 1890 he developed a Pictorialist style that led him to join the Vienna Camera Club. Kühn maintained relations with the avant-garde of his time, the Vienna Secession, which centred around Gustav Klimt and was characterised by a desire to merge various artistic disciplines. Also influenced at this time by his friend, the American photographer, Alfred Stieglitz. With his encouragement , he partially liberated himself from pictorialist conventions to experiment with bold compositions and low-angle framing.
The bromoil process is perfectly suited to this beautiful still life, featuring blurred contours and an enveloping atmosphere that calls to mind Vermeer interiors and anticipates the compositions of Morandi.
Ici la technique du bromoil sert parfaitement cette belle nature morte, aux contours flous et à l’ambiance enveloppante qui rappelle les intérieurs de Vermeer et préfigure les compositions de Morandi.
Heinrich Kühn came to photography while studying medicine and natural sciences. Becoming fully immersed in 1890 he developed a Pictorialist style that led him to join the Vienna Camera Club. Kühn maintained relations with the avant-garde of his time, the Vienna Secession, which centred around Gustav Klimt and was characterised by a desire to merge various artistic disciplines. Also influenced at this time by his friend, the American photographer, Alfred Stieglitz. With his encouragement , he partially liberated himself from pictorialist conventions to experiment with bold compositions and low-angle framing.
The bromoil process is perfectly suited to this beautiful still life, featuring blurred contours and an enveloping atmosphere that calls to mind Vermeer interiors and anticipates the compositions of Morandi.