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Rare portrait of the famous Viennese photographer, at whose studio Brandl worked. Fleischmann was what is now called a good networker and cultivated customer contacts like friendships with costume parties in her studio. The portrait most likely shows her dressed for such an occasion.

Seltenes Porträt der berühmten Wiener Fotografin, in deren Atelier Brandl arbeitete. Fleischmann war, wie man heute sagt, eine gute “Netzwerkerin”, die ihre Kundenkontakte und Freundschaften auch mit der Veranstaltung von Kostümfesten in ihrem Atelier pflegte. Es ist anzunehmen, dass sie dieses Porträt in einer Garderobe für einen solchen Anlass zeigt.






Photographer’s stamp with address at “Wien I. Ebendorferstraße 3”, her copyright stamp and her re-order stamp with handwritten negative no. “281” in ink, and handwritten title in pencil on the reverse [‘Die Tänzerin Ronny Johansson’]. Ronny Irene Johansson was born 1891 in Latvia, to Swedish and Scottish parents. Her father, a businessman in the shipping industry, sent Ronny to Russian and Swedish boarding schools. It was in Sweden that she established a professional dancing career, debuting in Weisbaden in 1916. After touring and performing throughout Europe, she moved to the USA in 1925 to pursue Modern dance. [quoted from source]



Photographer’s stamp with address at “Wien I. Ebendorferstraße 3”, her copyright stamp and her re-order stamp with handwritten negative no. “1039/a” in ink, “Wiener Foto-Kurier” agency stamp, several numbers and handwritten annotated “Frl. Marianne Rosenberg” in pencil on the reverse. LITERATURE “Die junge Frau von Heute”, in: Die Bühne, no. 299, March 1931, Vienna, p. 5 (titled “Fräulein Maria Rosenberg”); Frauke Kreutler, Anton Holzer (eds.), Trude Fleischmann. Der selbstbewusste Blick, cat. Wien Museum, Vienna 2013, p. 127 (ill. from “Die Bühne”).







An alternative rendition of this photograph titled: ‘Porträt eines Mädchens, Wien’ and dated between 1930-1940 is hosted at Wien Museum: permalink



