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Louis Held

Oskar Schlemmer Theater "Meta or the Pantomime of Places", Bauhaus, Weimar, 1924

Lot Closed

December 4, 01:05 PM GMT

Estimate

500 - 800 EUR

Lot Details

Description

Louis Held

1851 - 1927

Oskar Schlemmer Theater "Meta or the Pantomime of Places", Bauhaus, Weimar, 1924


vintage silver print

photographer's stamp on the verso

matted and framed under museum glass


[tirage argentique d'époque

tampon du photographe au verso

sous passe-partout et encadré sous verre musée]


print/tirage: 21.5 x 15.4 cm; 8 7/16 x 6 1/16 in.

frame/cadre: 32.5 x 38.5 cm; 12 13/16 x 15 3/16 in.

Private collection, France

Aguttes, Photographie Moderne & Contemporaine, June 24, 2019, lot 14

Private collection, Switzerland


[Collection privée, Paris

Vente Aguttes, Photographie Moderne & Contemporaine, 24 juin , 2019, lot 14

Collection privée, Suisse]

Hans M. Wingler Das Bauhaus, Weimar Dessau Berlin 1919-1933, Dumont, 1962/2009, p. 355

Bauhausbücher, Die Bühne im Bauhaus4, p. 41 (similar image)


[Hans M. Wingler Das Bauhaus, Weimar Dessau Berlin 1919-1933, Dumont, 1962/2009, p. 355

Bauhausbücher, Die Bühne im Bauhaus4, p. 41 (image similaire)]

Louis Held opened his first studio in Liegnitz in 1876. He moved to Berlin three years later and then to Weimar. He became a protégé of Franz Liszt and was appointed court photographer for Carl Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, in 1888. From 1890 he toured Germany to illustrate magazines.


[Louis Held ouvre son premier atelier à Liegnitz en 1876. Il s'installe à Berlin trois ans plus tard, puis à Weimar. Il devint un protégé de Franz Liszt et fut nommé photographe de cour de Carl Alexander, grand-duc de Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, en 1888. À partir de 1890, il fit une tournée en Allemagne pour illustrer des magazines.]