Tag: 1930s

Exercising in the Trümpy school

Alfred Eisenstaedt ~ Women doing exercises in the Trümpy school, 1934. Published in Die Dame 9/1934 | src getty images
Alfred Eisenstaedt ~ Woman doing exercises in the Trümpy school, 1934. Published by Die Dame 9/1934 | src getty images
Alfred Eisenstaedt ~ Woman doing exercises to make the hip elastic and to develop a sense of equilibrium according to the Trümpy school, 1934. Published in Die Dame 9/1934 & Bazar 4/1935 | src getty images
Alfred Eisenstaedt ~ Women doing exercises in the Trümpy school, 1934 | src getty images
Alfred Eisenstaedt ~ Woman doing exercises in the Trümpy school, 1934 | src getty images

Drtikol · Cut-outs · early 1930s

František Drtikol (1883-1961) ~ Composition, 1931 | src Gitterman Gallery ~ Czech Avant-Garde 2023
František Drtikol (1883-1961) ~ Soul, 1930 | src Gitterman Gallery ~ Czech Avant-Garde 2023

Czech Avant-Garde at Gitterman Gallery ~ Nov 14 – Dec 22, 2023

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. Though most known for his Pictorial images of nudes in Modernist stagings, we highlight a series from the early 1930s he referred to as “photopurism.” In this series, he photographed paper cut-outs and carved wood figures, as Mannerist silhouettes of the human form, in geometric abstract environments, to explore themes of Buddhism. He gave up photography in 1935 to concentrate on painting.

František Drtikol (1883-1961) ~ Composition, ca. 1930 | src Gitterman Gallery ~ Czech Avant-Garde 2023
František Drtikol (1883-1961) ~ Composition, 1930 | src Gitterman Gallery ~ Czech Avant-Garde 2023

Gerdago by Atelier Manassé

Atelier Manassé ~ Gerda Gottschlich [Gerda Gottstein, Gerda Irro], genannt Gerdago, 1920s | src Lempertz
Atelier Manassé ~ Costume-design by Austrian costume-designer Gerdago (Gerda Gottschlich), 1932 | src getty images
Atelier Manassé ~ Costume-design by Austrian costume-designer Gerdago (Gerda Gottschlich), 1932 | src getty images
Atelier Manassé ~ Austrian costume-designer Gerdago [Gerda Gottstein (1906-2004)], Vienna, ca. 1930 | src getty images

Dora Maar in Autochrome

Dora Maar (1907-1997) ~ Autoportrait, vers 1935 (Autochrome) (detail) | src Centre Pompidou
Dora Maar (1907-1997) ~ Autoportrait, vers 1935 (Autochrome) (detail) | src Centre Pompidou
Dora Maar (1907-1997) ~ Autoportrait, vers 1935 (Autochrome) | src Centre Pompidou

Slavenska in Triumphant David

Mia Slavenska in ‘Triumphant David’. Paris, theatre Cite Universitaire, December 1936. (Detail) | src getty images
Mia Slavenska in ‘Triumphant David’. Paris, theatre Cite Universitaire, December 1936. (Roger-Viollet) | src getty images
Mia Slavenska in ‘Triumphant David’. Paris, theatre Cite Universitaire, December 1936. (Roger-Viollet) | src getty images

Mia Slavenska bending back

Mia Čorak Slavenska (1916-2002): one of the greatest ballerinas of all time who was also called a masterpiece of human mechanics Photographer’s blindstamp on right bottom (G. Reputin?) Zagreb | src Zadovoljna

La Jana in the film Truxa · 1937

La Jana. Tanzszene aus dem Film ‘Truxa‘ mit Tamburin. Regie: Hans H. Zerlett, nach dem Roman von Heinrich Seiler. Deutschland, 1936 (23.01.1936) | src getty images
Truxa (1937) Illustrierter Film-Kurier (IFK) Filmprogramm Nr. 2564 (BFK : Berliner Film-Kurier) | src eBay
La Jana (aka Jenny Hiebel) in a dance scene with a tambourine from the movie 'Truxa' (Hans H. Zerlett, 1937). Published by 'Die Dame' 04/1937 | src getty images
La Jana (aka Jenny Hiebel) in a dance scene with a tambourine from the movie ‘Truxa’ (Hans H. Zerlett, 1937). Published by ‘Die Dame’ 04/1937 | src getty images
La Jana [b. Henriette Margarethe Hiebel] in the film ‘Truxa‘ (Hans H. Zerlett, 1937) | src getty images
La Jana in a dance scene from the movie ‘Truxa’ (Hans H. Zerlett, 1936). Published by Berliner Morgenpost 18.01.1937 | src getty images
La Jana and Ernst Fritz Fürbringer in ‘Truxa‘ (Regie: Hans H. Zerlett). Published by ‘Hier Berlin’ 36/1936 | src getty images
La Jana in the film ‘Truxa’. Regie: Hans H. Zerlett (1937). Published by ‘B.Z.’ 14.08.1936 | src getty images

Fred Peel · Vase and maid · ca. 1935

Fred P. Peel (active ca. 1920s-1930s) ~ The Vase and the Maid, ca. 1935. The Royal Photographic Society Coll. | src getty images
Fred P. Peel (active ca. 1920s-1930s) ~ The Vase and the Maid, ca. 1935. The Royal Photographic Society coll. V&A museum