Heinz Hajek-Halke fait partie de ces très rares artistes demeurés en Allemagne durant la guerre et qui tentèrent après 1945 de renouer avec le fil d'une pratique d'avant-garde qui avait été la leur dans les années 20.
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La maison de vente américaine Sotheby's a remplacé Londres par Paris pour organiser sa vente annuelle de photographie, qui se tient au mois de mai. Les anglaises Christie's et Phillips de Pury maintiennent leur vente de photographie à Londres, quelques jours après Sotheby's.
La première partie de la vente Sotheby's sera consacrée au photographe allemand Heinz Hajek-Halke, dont une rétrospective s'était tenue au Centre Pompidou à l'été 2002. Après avoir été montrés à New York et Londres, les 78 clichés, qui oscillent entre 3 000 et 25 000 euros, seront exposés cinq jours à Paris, avant la vente qui aura lieu le 10 mai. La seconde partie traversera l'histoir...
This large-format monograph is the first extensive review of the work of Heinz Hajek-Halke, an unrecognized pioneer of early twentieth-century experimental photography. Hajek-Halke surmounted the purely documentary nature of the medium in the turbulent 1920s to develop a variety of aesthetically challenging photo-manipulation and montage techniques. He used these methods not only in excellent compositions made for their own sake, but also in commissioned advertising work, which can now be understood as innovative forerunners of todayís altered photography and web design. Artist, Anarchist encompasses all the creative phases of Hajek-Halkeís career--his nude photography, his photo-montages, picture stories, the images of small animals with which he kept his nose down during the war, and his late abstract Lic...
Heinz Hajek-Halke fait partie de ces très rares artistes demeurés en Allemagne durant la guerre et qui tentèrent après 1945 de renouer avec le fil d'une pratique d'avant-garde qui avait été la leur dans les années 20.
Réalisée à partir du fonds très complet conservé par le photographe Michael Ruetz, cette exposition réunit une centaine de pièces originales, dont la plupart sont des grands formats.
Heinz Hajek-Halke (Berlin 1898-1983) vient à la photographie après des études à la Königlichen Kunstschule de Berlin et travaille pour l'agence Presse-Photo de 1923 à 1933.
Photographe illustrateur il pratique avec succès le photomontage dans un esprit très dadaïste et...
Sotheby's May 2010 auction of Photographs features remarkable works from all periods of the history of photography.
Amongst the highlights of the sale is an exquisite albumen print of the eminent La Villette, rue Asselin, fille publique faisant le quart devant sa porte, 1921 by the famous and acclaimed early 20th century French photographer Eugène Atget.
The modern section comprises an intriguing group of vintage prints from the estate of the German avant-garde photographer Heinz Hajek-Halke. The collection is headed by two vintage silver prints from the Black and White Nudes series (1930-36) and includes a selection of photo-montages and abstract experimental studies from the 1930s and 1940s.
Furthermore, the Property from an Important French Collection includes significant works by such outstanding figure...
There is no photography. There is always only the photograph which gazes back at the viewer. Sometimes with a careful, tentative and questioning look; sometimes with a brisk or hasty glance. But it always offers something: an invitation to brief conversations. The viewer always looks, and the photograph, full of curiosity, gazes back. As in 1966, when the German reportage photographer Robert Lebeck took a portrait of the former German chancellor Konrad Adenauer at his 90 th birthday celebration in Bonn. The image, published in the magazine „Kristall”, shows nothing more than the left eye of the aged chancellor. The rest is covered by the portly body of a stranger. But this eye was already enough. The magazine photo engaged the reader in a dialogue. What really moved Adenauer on this winter day, what he saw or...
Heinz Hajek-Halke (1898-1983)
FANTASY AND DREAM
Johanna Breede presents Heinz Hajek-Halke (1898-1983), one of the great photography pioneers of the 1920s and early 1930s in Germany.
© Heinz Hajek-Halke: Das Eva-Chanson, 1928-32 © Sammlung Ruetz /Courtesy Johanna Breede PHOTOKUNST.
He was one of the first to experiment with superimposed images and montages, to leave the documentary aspect of photography behind him and enter the world of the unreal and the ambiguous. An oversized female nude appears in the middle of a street scene. With alienations such as those in "Üble Nachrede (Slander)&q...
On 10 May 2011, Sotheby’s European Photographs department will hold two photographs sales: L’Essentiel Heinz Hajek-Halke an auction which comprises the most compelling vintage prints from the 1920s to the 1950s of this German avant-garde photographer coming to auction directly from the artist’s estate, and Photographies a various owner sale offering an exceptional selection of works by the leading photographers of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
Prior to the auction date the highlights from both sales are sent on a travelling exhibition to Sotheby’s New York and London in addition to the preview in Paris. The exhibition in London will be on show from 16 to 21 April and will focus on high quality material from the 19th century and early 20th century - the vintage era.
A prime example ...
On 10 May 2011, Sotheby’s European Photographs department will hold two Photographs sales: L’essentiel Heinz Hajek-Halke an auction which comprises the most compelling vintage prints from the 1920s to the 1950s of this German avant-garde photographer coming to auction directly from the artist’s estate, and Photographies a various owner sale offering an exceptional selection of works by the leading photographers of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
Prior to the auction date the highlights from both sales are sent on a travelling exhibition to Sotheby’s New York and London in addition to the preview in Paris. The exhibition in New York will be on show from 2 to 5 April and will focus on high quality material from the 19th century and early 20th century - the vintage era.
Man Ray, the gre...
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...
Heinz Hajek-Halke: Form from Light and Shadow
With his collages and experiments, his nude studies and advertising photographs, Heinz Hajek-Halke belongs to the big names among the pioneers of photography in the 1920s and early 1930s in Germany. His 'combi-photographs' innovatively combined photographs with text and graphic elements. A trained graphic designer, Hajek-Halke had his experimental photographs published in the leading glossies and magazines of the Weimar Republic. In addition, he designed book covers and adverts.
In 1934, he retired to the Lake Constance region, working as a photographer of insects and small animals, but after the Second World War he managed to join avantgarde ranks once more through 'fotoform', a group founded by a number of younger colleagues. The exhibition presents Heinz Hajek-Halke...