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Otto Steinert

Saarbruecken 1915 – 1978 Essen

"Der Sohn“, auch "Mutter und Sohn“ (The Son / Mother and Son). 1948

3 Vintages. Gelatin silver prints. 1 photo Agfa Brovira paper. Photomontages from photographic images of 1947. Each approx. 38 × 29 cm (15 × 11 ⅜ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Otto Steinert.

Estimate:

EUR 5,000

 

- 7,000

USD 5,490

 

- 7,690

Sold for:

11,250 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn 2019

Photography, Wednesday, 27.11.2019

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3 Vintages. Gelatin silver prints. 1 photo Agfa Brovira paper. Photomontages from photographic images of 1947. Each approx. 38 × 29 cm (15 × 11 ⅜ in.). 1 photo titled in pencil by Otto Steinert on the reverse: "Der Sohn" as well as annotated et al.: "Zur Ausstellung fotoform, Fotogr. Studien zum Thema - das Menschenbild in unserer Zeit". Photographer's stamp: "Foto Dr. Steinert, Saarbrücken 2, St. Johannerstr. 46" and copyright stamp. Numbered in pencil by various hands. 1 photo on the reverse with photographer's stamp: "Otto Steinert" and estate stamp: "NACHLASS-ESTATE OTTO STEINERT / STEFAN STEINERT“, therein signed, dated and titled: "Mutter und Sohn" in pencil by Stefan Steinert. Numbered in pencil by various hands. 1 photo mounted on original cardboard (57,7 x 46 cm), thereupon signed and dated in pencil lower right. On reverse of the cardboard photographer's stamp: "Otto Steinert" and estate stamp: "NACHLASS-ESTATE OTTO STEINERT / STEFAN STEINERT“, therein signed, dated and titled: "Der Sohn" in pencil by Stefan Steinert. Inscribed and numbered in pencil by various hands.

Exh. cat.: Der Fotograf Otto Steinert. Essen, Museum Folkwang; Saarbrücken, Saarland Museum in der Stiftung Saarländischer Kulturbesitz; Kiel, Kunsthalle, 1999/2000, p. 122, ill. 2 (there titled and dated: Mutter und Sohn, 1948)

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