Heinrich Kühn - Hans and Walther Kühn - image-1

Lot 511 Dα

Heinrich Kühn - Hans and Walther Kühn

Auction 1210 - overview Cologne
02.12.2022, 14:00 - Photography
Estimate: 5.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 5.040 € (incl. premium)

Heinrich Kühn

Hans and Walther Kühn
c. 1910

Gum dichromate over platinum print on heavy Japan laid paper. 45 x 33,3 cm (48,3 x 37 cm). Notes on the photochemical process by Heinrich Kühn in pencil as well as annotated in an unknown hand in pencil on the verso.

The photograph shows the eldest son Walther, who at this time had already begun his education as a painter, portraying his younger brother Hans.

Provenance

Formerly Harry H. Lunn Gallery, Washington; private collection, Austria

Literature

Harry H. Lunn (ed.), Photo-Secession, exhib.cat. Lunn Gallery, Washington, Washington 1977, ill. 126