Chargesheimer (Karl Hargesheimer)
Untitled (From: La Logeuse)
1963
59 vintage gelatin silver prints on various Agfa papers. From 29.6 x 23.8 cm to 39.8 x 29.7 cm, portrait and landscape formats. One print signed and inscribed in pencil, 19 prints annotated in an unknown hand in pencil and ballpoint pen resp., two prints with paper labels, thereon typewritten notes on the subject. Each print with Gisela Holzinger's estate stamp on the verso.
Gisela Holzinger was a character actress who specialized mostly in contradictory female characters on German stages and in postwar television. One of her most famous theater roles was that of the room hostess in Jacques Audiberti's play 'La Logeuse' (Die Zimmerwirtin). Chargesheimer's rehearsal photographs also paint a very personal, up-close picture of the actress, with whom he lived from the late 1950s to the early 1960s.
Supplements:
Contact prints with photographs of theater rehearsals as well as portrait studies of Gisela Holzinger: 21 vintage gelatin silver prints on Agfa paper, of which 5 are torn or trimmed, the others in the format 39.7 x 29.8 cm. Each with Gisela Holzinger's estate stamp.
Chargesheimer/Martin Walser, Theater - Theater, Velber (Friedrich Verlag) 1967 (with personal dedication by Chargesheimer to Gisela Holzinger)
Chargesheimer, Zwischenbilanz, Cologne (Greven Verlag) 1961 (with personal dedication by Chargesheimer to Gisela Holzinger)
Provenance
Estate of Gisela Holzinger