Untitled (Ms Schürmann, Negative), Hugo Erfurth
Hugo Erfurth
Untitled (Ms Schürmann, Negative)
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Hugo Erfurth

Untitled (Ms Schürmann, Negative), after 1925


Darstellung
48.6 x 36 cm
Physical Description
Silver gelatin negative print
Inventory Number
St.F.2588
Acquisition
Acquired in 2013 with support from the Kulturstiftung der Länder and the Hessischer Kulturstiftung, joint property with the Städelscher Museums-Verein e.V.
Status
Not on display

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Like the art photographers at the turn of the century, Hugo Erfurth relied on the painterly effect of soft focus. Flowing contours and soft colour gradients in the positive consciously make use of stylistic devices of pictorialism, at the same time he positions his model before a monochrome background and shows a reduced detail as is characteristic of representations in the style of Neue Sachlichkeit. In the negative the values of dark and light are inverted and the work seems abstract and evokes surrealism: the eyes of the sitter stare demonically at the onlooker, while the rest of her face is obscured by darkness.

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15.11.2024