Photographs from the Private Collection of Margaret W. Weston

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Lot 85
  • 85

Anton Stankowski 1906-1998

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Description

  • Anton Stankowski
  • 'ZEITPROTOKOLL MIT AUTO'
ferrotyped, signed and dated by the photographer in pencil on the reverse, matted, 1929

Provenance

The Collection of Anton Stankowski 

Rolf Mayer, Köln

Acquired by Margaret W. Weston from the above, 1991

Literature

Other prints of this image:

Van Deren Coke, Avant-Garde Photography in Germany, 1919-1939 (Munich, 1982), pl. 45

Anton Stankowski: Fotografie (Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1991, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 32

Ulrike Gauss, ed., Stankowski 06: Aspects of His Oeuvre (Ostfildern, 2006), p. 167

Catalogue Note

Zeitprotokoll mit Auto (Time Protocol with Car), one of Stankowski's best-known images, was made just after his arrival in Zürich in 1929 to work at the cutting-edge advertising agency, Max Dalang.  Having completed his studies at the Folkwang School in Essen, western Germany's answer to the Bauhaus, Stankowski became the most progressive graphic designer in Zürich--one of the Zürich 'Konkretes'--among the first to introduce the oblique into poster design and other printed media.  Zeitprotokoll mit Auto anticipates the importance of the oblique angle in Stankowski's work and is an example of his photographic experimentation with blurring and distortion.  In later years, Stankowski would become famous for his 1974 Deutsche Bank logo—a diagonal slash within a square.