Bent standing nude (1920s)

Pictorialist standing female nude bent forward, 1920s

M. Lambert :: Frauenakt gebeugt, 1920er Jahre | Female nude bent forward, 1920s. Vintage toned gelatin silver print. | src Koller Auktionen — **M. Lambert ::** Frauenakt gebeugt, 1920er Jahre | Female nude bent forward, 1920s. Vintage toned gelatin silver print. | src Koller Auktionen

Vlna · Wave by Drtikol ca. 1926

**František Drtikol (1883-1961) ~** Vlna (Wave), 1926 | src Uměleckoprůmyslové museum v Praze

**František Drtikol** ~ Vlna (Wave), 1925. One of the ten versions of this picture kept at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague

**František Drtikol (1883-1961) ~** Temná vlna (The Dark Wave), 1926, pigment print

Photographer František Drtikol / Works from 1903 – 1935, Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, December 1972 – February 1973
Fotograf František Drtikol / Tvorba z let 1903 – 1935, Uměleckoprůmyslové Muzeum, Praha, Prosinec 1972 – Únor 1973
poster designed by unknown artist in 1972 | src Jozef Square

From: Exhibition catalogue: “Frantisek Drtikol Works between 1903 and 1930” at the UMPRUM Museum Prague December 1972 – February 1973. | src Abebooks

Edle Nacktheit in China (1928)

**Heinz von Perckhammer ::** “Edle Nacktheit in China”, Macao, ca. 1920; photogravure on Japan paper | src Collezione Molinario

**Heinz von Perckhammer ::** The Culture of the Nude in China. Berlin; Eigenbrodler Verlag, [1928] | src heritage auctions

**Heinz von Perckhammer ~** From “Edle Nacktheit in China”. Eigenbrödler Verlag [Berlin, 1928] 1st edition (cover) | src sworders

**Heinz von Perckhammer ~** From “Edle Nacktheit in China /The culture of the Nude in China”. Eigenbrodler Verlag [Berlin, 1928]

**Heinz von Perckhammer ::** “The culture of the Nude in China”, Macao, ca. 1920; original photogravure on Japan paper | src Collezione Molinario

Heinz von Perckhammer was born in Merano, Austria-Hungary (now Italy) in 1895. During the First World War he served aboard the SMS Kaiserin Elisabeth during the Siege of Tsingtao and between 1917 and 1919 was held as a prisoner of war. It was during this time when he was held captive that his interest in photography began. He apparently remained in China for much of the 1920s, and took these soft-focused and stylized photographs of women from Macao brothels.

In the introduction to Edle Nacktheit in China he writes: ‘Pictures of nude women, setting aside the ugly caricatures of the “Spring pictures” of erotic scenes, simply do not exist in China. Therefore I believe, I have created something entirely new and of value.’ Edle Nacktheit in China was later banned by the Nazis as degenerate art (Entartete Kunst) and appeared on the Liste des schädlichen und unerwünschten Schrifttums [List of harmful and undesirable writing].

**Heinz von Perckhammer ~** Nude from “Edle Nacktheit in China”. Eigenbrödler Verlag [Berlin, 1928] Heliogravür | src Koller Auktionen

**Heinz von Perckhammer ~** Young nude girl. Rotogravure. From “Edle Nacktheit in China”, Berlin, 1928 | src Drouot

**Heinz von Perckhammer ~** From “Edle Nacktheit in China”. Eigenbrödler Verlag [Berlin, 1928] 1st edition | src sworders

*Edle Nacktheit in China* (1928); book with 32 original photographs by Heinz v. Perckhammer | src Abebooks

Nude against Tree, ca. 1930

Consolation by Moise Benkow

**Moise Benkow** (1892 – 1952) ~ Tröst (Consolation), ca. 1930 | src Moderna Museet

Nude Studies, ca. 1927

**Moise Benkow** (1892 – 1952) ~ Studie, u.å. (ca. 1927) Gelatinsilverfotografi monterat på kartong | src Modernamuseet

**Moise Benkow** (1892 – 1952) ~ Modell, 1927. Signed and dated on bottom right | src Moderna Museet

Nude dancer by Genthe

**Arnold Genthe ::** Untitled [Nude dancer], 1906-1942. Autochrome. | src Library of Congress

La Cigale by Frank Eugene

**Frank Eugene ~** La Cigale. Photogravure. Published in Camera Work, 1904 | src The Cleveland Museum of Art

**Frank Eugene** ~ La Cigale, No. 3 from the portfolio “American Pictorial Photography, Series II” (1901) | src AIC

**Frank Eugene ~** La Cigale. From : Camera Notes, Vol 3 No 4, 1900. | src Le Monde Blog (broken link)

**Frank Eugene ~** La Cigale, 1898. Photogravure. The Alfred Stieglitz Collection. | src Art Institute Chicago

**Frank Eugene ~** La Cigale, 1898. Platinum print. | src Art Institute Chicago

**Frank Eugene ~** La Cigale, 1901. Photogravure. The Camera Club of New York | src MoMA

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