Category: pictorialism, pictorialisme, pictorialismo, Piktorialismus, Piktorialismi

Two nudes by Henry Goodwin

Henry B. Goodwin (1878-1931) ~ Two Reclining Female Nudes, 1920. Photogravure | src Peter Fetterman gallery & artnet

Two portraits by Dührkoop

Portrait by Rudolf Dührkoop. The American annual of photography (1912) Harold B. Lee Library / Brigham Young University
Portrait by Rudolf Dührkoop. From: The American annual of photography (1912) Harold B. Lee Library / Brigham Young University on internet archive

Kupferova in oriental costume

František Drtikol (1883-1961) ~ Ervina Kupferová in oriental costume with fan, ca. 1920. Bassenge Auktionen Photographs 2015 lot 4176 & LL/59783
František Drtikol (1883-1961) ~ Ervína Kupferová (oriental costume), ca. 1920 | src mutualArt

Dancer by Edward Weston

Edward Weston (1886-1958) ~ Dancer in front of a silver screen, Glendale Studio, ca. 1921 | src Swann galleries

Undulating Sand by Weston

Edward Weston (1886-1958) ~ Undulating Sand [Mather on Beach], 1923. Palladium print | src liveauctioneers
Edward Weston (1886-1958) ~ Undulating Sand [Mather on Beach], 1923. Palladium print | src liveauctioneers

Alinari monograph on Weston

Edward Weston ~ Margrethe Mather (?) 1920s. Cover of Alinari’s monograph on Weston, published 1999
Cover of Alinari’s monograph on Edward Weston, published 1999

Hairstyle photo by Merkelbach

Jacob Merkelbach (1877-1942) ~ Kapsel / Hairstyle, 1920 [by stage hairdresser Maurice Vanstaen] | src Beeldbank
Jacob Merkelbach (1877-1942) ~ Kapsel / Hairstyle, 1921 [by stage hairdresser Maurice Vanstaen] | src Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden

Pensive draped lady by Drtikol

František Drtikol (1883-1961) ~ Untitled, ca. 1923-29 | src Gitterman Gallery ~ Czech Avant-Garde (2023)
František Drtikol (1883-1961) ~ Untitled, ca. 1923-29. Courtesy Gitterman gallery | src ODLP ~ l’œil de la photographie

Drtikol modernist nudes

František Drtikol (1883-1961) ~ Untitled, 1927 (Carbon print) | src Gitterman Gallery ~ Czech Avant-Garde 2023

Czech Avant-Garde (2023) at Gitterman Gallery (NY)

Gitterman gallery presents a selection of avant-garde Czech photography with a focus on rare vintage works by two seminal figures, František Drtikol and Josef Sudek. Each created exquisite prints that added dimension to their innovative visions.

František Drtikol’s (1883-1961) photographs are distinctly emblematic of the Art Deco period (1920s and 30s) by merging styles of Symbolism, Pictorialism, and Modernism. These two photos are an example of his best known works: Pictorial images of nudes in Modernist (Art decó) stagings.

František Drtikol (1883-1961) ~ Kruh a Přímky (Circle and lines), 1926. Vintage pigment print, carbon. | src Gitterman gallery
František Drtikol ~ Akt s dekoracio | Nude with quarter circle, ca. 1926. Bromoil print | src Galerie Kicken Berlin

Black cat autochrome by Steichen

Edward Jean Steichen ~ Portrait of the Misses Sawyer, ca. 1914. Autochrome | src MoMA