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Hermann Heid
Portrait of young woman
1885 (ca)
Albumen print
26 x 18,7 cm
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Auction 108, Photography, 30 November 2016, Lot: 4045
LL/70610
Bassenge (5 December 2018, Photography, Auction: 112, Lot: 4050) provides the following information:
Photographer's name and number in the negative in lower edge, mounted to board, Kupferstecherschule der k.k. Akademie d. bild. Künste in Wien. Inv. Nr. 130 stamp on mount verso.
Along with Carl Haack, Rudolf Carl Huber and Otto Schmidt, Dr. Hermann Heid produced various images such as architectural studies and genre scenes for artists. As the stamp on the verso of the mount indicates, this exceptional portrait was used by students of the engraving school of the Academy of Arts in Vienna. – Some light surface scuff marks, otherwise in good condition.
Lit.: Ulrich Pohlmann/Johann Georg Prinz von Hohenzollern (eds.) Eine neue Kunst? Eine andere Natur! Fotografie und Malerei im 19. Jahrhundert. Munich 2004, ill. p. 64 (variant).
Verein zur Erarbeitung der Geschichte der Fotografie in Österreich (ed.). Geschichte der Fotografie in Österreich. Bad Ischl 1983, ill. p. 107 (same model).
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