Franz Roh
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- Exposition
Exhibition : « THE PSYCHIC LENS - Surrealism and the camera » at the Atlas Gallery
Press Release - A new exhibition of nearly 50 works at Atlas Gallery will explore how photographers responded to Surrealism over the course of over 50 years. The Psychic Lens: Surrealism and the camera, will include vintage photographs by well-known figures such as Man Ray, Andre Kertesz, Florence Henri and Bill Brandt alongside rarely seen works by artists such as Vaclav Zykmund, Franz Roh and Raoul Hausmann to tell the story of Surrealism through photography.
Surrealism was an avant-garde movement in art and literature beginning in the 1920s when artists began to experiment with ways of unleashing the subconscious imagination. Poet Andre Breton is credited with launching the movement in Paris in 1924. Over time the influence of the movement spread far and wide, as evidenced in the inclusion of collages by Japanese a... - Exposition
Franz Roh présente son Collagen und Photographien à la Jörg Maaß Kunsthandel
The Jörg Maaß Kunsthandel presents an exhibition of over fifty artworks by the artist and art theorist, Franz Roh.
The rich spectrum of collages, which were created within a period of four decades, lends a deeper understanding to the work of the imaginative, Franz Roh, who felt particularly connected to the artwork of his artist colleague and friend, Max Ernst.
His early works were designed with collaged elements from wood engravings, in which an intuitive process found a new context, and through which the lyrical-surrealistic, almost psychoanalytical titles were perfected.
Frauenakt sitzend. Gelatin silver print. 1928-1934. 146 x 146 mm
It is here we find rhinoceroses that hover in Rococo interiors, athletes fleeing erupting volcanoes and tipsy gentlemen dwellin... - Exposition
Streetlife Photographs from our collections 1930-1975
Streetlife - Photographs from our collections 1930-1975
In addition to the Soulas exhibition 50 original photographs from our collections, titled "Streetlife" are on show. The selection documents a forty-year development of reportage photography.
During the Weimar Republic the first photo shots in public areas -on the streets- documenting focal pointsand events were done by Alfred Eisenstaedt or Tim Gidal. Outstanding photographers working for the illustrated magazines "Life" and "Stern", such as Jerry Cooke, Robert Lebeck, Stefan Moses and Thomas Hoepker continued in this tradition.
Again and again public streets became a stage for crucial contemporary historical happenings: so for example in the photo series, shot by Roman Vishniac of the Schtetln of Polish Jews, before their exp...
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Press Release - A new exhibition of nearly 50 works at Atlas Gallery will explore how photographers responded to Surrealism over the course of over 50 years. The Psychic Lens: Surrealism and the camera, will include vintage photographs by well-known figures such as Man Ray, Andre Kertesz, Florence Henri and Bill Brandt alongside rarely seen works by artists such as Vaclav Zykmund, Franz Roh and Raoul Hausmann to tell the story of Surrealism through photography.
Surrealism was an avant-garde movement in art and literature beginning in the 1920s when artists began to experiment with ways of unleashing the subconscious imagination. Poet Andre Breton is credited with launching the movement in Paris in 1924. Over time the influence of the movement spread far and wide, as evidenced in the inclusion of collages by Japanese a...
The Jörg Maaß Kunsthandel presents an exhibition of over fifty artworks by the artist and art theorist, Franz Roh.
The rich spectrum of collages, which were created within a period of four decades, lends a deeper understanding to the work of the imaginative, Franz Roh, who felt particularly connected to the artwork of his artist colleague and friend, Max Ernst.
His early works were designed with collaged elements from wood engravings, in which an intuitive process found a new context, and through which the lyrical-surrealistic, almost psychoanalytical titles were perfected.
Frauenakt sitzend. Gelatin silver print. 1928-1934. 146 x 146 mm
It is here we find rhinoceroses that hover in Rococo interiors, athletes fleeing erupting volcanoes and tipsy gentlemen dwellin...
Streetlife - Photographs from our collections 1930-1975
In addition to the Soulas exhibition 50 original photographs from our collections, titled "Streetlife" are on show. The selection documents a forty-year development of reportage photography.
During the Weimar Republic the first photo shots in public areas -on the streets- documenting focal pointsand events were done by Alfred Eisenstaedt or Tim Gidal. Outstanding photographers working for the illustrated magazines "Life" and "Stern", such as Jerry Cooke, Robert Lebeck, Stefan Moses and Thomas Hoepker continued in this tradition.
Again and again public streets became a stage for crucial contemporary historical happenings: so for example in the photo series, shot by Roman Vishniac of the Schtetln of Polish Jews, before their exp...