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Gertrud Arndt

Ratibor/Poland 1903 – 2000 Darmstadt

Negative Portrait Wera Meyer-Waldeck, Dessau. 1930

Vintage. Gelatin silver print, Negative print. Kodak-Bromid paper. 16,6 × 22,2 cm (16,8 × 22,7 cm) (6 ½ × 8 ¾ in. (6 ⅝ × 8 ⅞ in.)).
This picture shows the following artwork: Gertrud Arndt. Negative Portrait Wera Meyer-Waldeck, Dessau. 1930.

Estimate:

EUR 10,000

 

- 15,000

USD 11,400

 

- 17,100

Sold for:

52,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Spring Auctions 2016

Modern and Contemporary Photographs, Wednesday, 01.06.2016

Information

Vintage. Gelatin silver print, Negative print. Kodak-Bromid paper. 16,6 × 22,2 cm (16,8 × 22,7 cm) (6 ½ × 8 ¾ in. (6 ⅝ × 8 ⅞ in.)). Laid down on original cardboard, thereupon dated in pencil lower right: "1930". On the reverse annotated in black ink by Gertrud Arndt: "FOTO GERTRUD ARNDT DESSAU"; there too in pencil in Sütterlin script annotations with technical information regarding the photographic image and the print. Stamp: "Gertrud Arndt (15) Probstzella / Thür., Bocksbergweg 3" and further stamp: "GERTRUD ARNDT 61 DARMSTADT Beethovenweg 7. Tel. 74156". Also with the copyright stamp of the Alfred and Gertrud Arndt Archiv and the address label of the archive. Inscribed in pencil by Alexandra Bormann-Arndt: "Vintage" and work information. With faint oxidation mottling in the black areas.

Formerly Archiv Alfred and Gertrud Arndt, Darmstadt

Photographie and Bauhaus, ed. Carl Haenlein, Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover, Hannover 1986, p. 70, ill. 5 / Gertrud Arndt, Fotografien aus der Bauhauszeit, ed. Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt 1993, p. 3 / Photographien der Bauhaus-Künstlerin Gertrud Arndt, ed. Verborgenes Museum, Berlin 1994, p. 15 / Eigentlich wollte ich ja Architektin werden, Gertrud Arndt als Weberin und Photographin am Bauhaus 1923–31, ed. Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin 2013, p. 69, ill. 127

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