Trained in Munich by Defregger and Kaulbach, the Innsbruck artist enjoyed international success as a landscape painter from 1920 until his career ended with the Nazi takeover. He did not use photography for templates, but as a medium in its own right and experimented in many photographic genres and pictorial languages in his mostly very small-format prints; yet his astonishing photographic oeuvre did not receive attention until the 1980s. This photo features the artist’s second wife Barbara Hoyer (1907–1970), who posed for many of his staged photographs.