Lot 27
  • 27

Heinz Hajek-Halke (1898 - 1983)

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description

  • Heinz Hajek-Halke
  • Die Heimat der Matrosen, 1930s
  • Photograph
Vintage silver print. Monogrammed in ink at the lower right. On the reverse, with the photographer's 'H. Hajek-Halke Experimentelle Fotografie für Presse und Werbung Wasserburg - Bodensee' stamp, the archive 'HHH Inventar' stamp and the archive number in pencil, the typewritten title  "Die Heimat der  Matrosen" on a paper strip affixed to the reverse, and annotated wird im Text erwähnt  [is mentioned in the text] in pencil in an unknown hand.

Exhibited

Heinz Hajek-Halke: Form aus Licht und Schatten, Berlin, Kulturforum/ Museum für Fotografie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, 2007 and Munich, Kunstfoyer Versicherungskammer Bayern, 2008.

Literature

Heinz Hajek-Halke. Artist, Anarchist, Göttingen, Steidl, 2006, ill. p. 43 (The Home of Sailors).

Condition

In very good condition. Glossy surface with fine original retouching. With two very light folds in the upper right corner. On the reverse, with remnants of a paper strip glued horizontally along the upper edge.
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