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Strasbourg 1871 – 1956 Zurich
Metamorphosis through Light, Tel-Aviv. 1935–1936
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Estimate:
EUR 25,000
- 30,000
USD 29,400
- 35,300
Auction 375
Thursday, 04.06.2026, 6:00 PM
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Estate of the artist, Zurich / Rudolf Kicken Gallery, Cologne (14 photographs of the convolute) / Barry Friedman Gallery, New York, and Mayer & Mayer Gallery, Düsseldorf (5 photographs and 2 photographs, acquired from Kicken in 1989/90 and 1992 respectively) / Private Collection, Brandenburg
Ute Eskildsen (Ed.): Helmar Lerski. Verwandlungen durch Licht. Freren 1982, unpaginated (510, 558, 563, 574, 580, 581, 589, 590, 594, 597, 598, 599, 608) / Exh.cat.: Helmar Lerski. Lichtbildner. Fotografien und Filme 1910-1947. Essen; Museum Folkwang; Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum; München, Fotomuseum im Stadtmuseum; Frankfurt, Kunstverein, and San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art, 1982/84, title (555), p. 106 (520), p. 110 (555) / Florian Ebner: Metamorphosen des Gesichts. Die ,Verwandlungen durch Licht‘ von Helmar Lerski. Göttingen, Steidl, 2002, p. 20 (510, 517), p. 24 (546, 550), p. 25 (554, 555, 558), p. 26 (563, 567, 568, 571), p. 27 (574, 580), p. 28 (581, 589), p. 29 (590, 594, 597, 598), p. 30 (599), p. 31 (608), p. 36 (581) / Annette and Rudolf Kicken (Hg.): Exposures 2. Cahier 5. Berlin 2012, p. 34 (517) and p. 35 (594) / Exh.cat.: Object: Photo. Modern Photographs. The Thomas Walther Collection 1909-1949. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 2014/15, p. 259, Cat.-No. 163 (599) / Exh.cat.: Helmar Lerski. Pionnier de la lumière. Paris, Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme, 2018, p. 95 (510) / Exh.cat.: Faces - die Macht des Gesichts. Helmar Lerski und die Porträtfotografie der Zwischenkriegszeit. Wien, Albertina, 2021, p. 9 (599), p. 78 (550)
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