Aura Hertwig
1900
Gerhart Hauptmann
[Die Kunst in der Photographie (Art Folio #4)]

Photogravure
19.5 x 14.0 cm
 
Photoseed
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Mrs. Aura Hertwig (Charlottenburg)
 
Any information on this photographer, including her dates, would be greatly appreciated.
 
Heliographed (Plate) & Printed by: Georg Buxenstein & Comp. (Berlin)
 
Hauptmann (1862-1946) was a prominent German dramatist of the early 20th century and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1912. His early naturalistic plays are still frequently performed. Hauptmann's best-known works include The Weavers (1893), a humanist drama of a rebellion against the mechanisms of the Industrial Revolution , and Hannele (1884), about the conflict between reality and fantasy. (Source: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hauptman.htm, April 2007)
 
In this photograph, the setting is the sea-side, with shells and seaweed evident at the bottom of frame. Hauptmann, deep in thought, writes standing up with a quill-tipped pen into a journal that he cradles with both arms.
 
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