Heinrich Kuhn - the Perfect Photograph
Heinrich Kühn
The Perfect Photograph
Alexander Stolz – Erasmus – N. et.: 11031891
Heinrich Kühn – The Perfect Photograph
Alexander Stolz – Erasmus – N. étudiant: 11031891
In recent years there have been an increasing number of shows about the Pictorialists, the fine art photographers around 1900. The Austrian photograph Heinrich Kühn counts as one of the most famous and most important among them. He is perceived as one of the founders of photography arts – the first style of art in photography, which could be established as own type of arts internationally. In the epoch between Post-Impressionism and the graphic planar of the Viennese Art Nouveau, Heinrich Kühn created a unique body of photographic work whose scope is still unknown, even to experts in that field. His work was shown at countless exhibitions and published in all the important art magazines between 1895 and 1915. The modernist potential of his art however was barely recognized during his lifetime. Heinrich Kühn was born in 1866 in Dresden. He came from a wealthy family, which was important to pursue his passion for photography, as this was an expensive hobby at that time. Once he completed his extensive studies in sciences, he became a member of the renowned Vienna Camera-Club. In association with other members of this club Kühn planned to develop photography into a medium of artistic expression rather than a medium that he and his associates felt had been demeaned by the advent of the professional photographic studio. Their English role models have been Peter Henry Emerson and George Davison. From the Frenchman Robert Demachy, they adopted the technique of gum bichromate prints, which is capable of rendering painterly images from photographic negatives. This technique suited well their vision of a photograph’s picture-like appearance. Heinrich Kühn and his fellows from the Vienna Camera-Club, can be seen as an early stream of “amateur” photography artists. More and more people of his
The Perfect Photograph
Alexander Stolz – Erasmus – N. et.: 11031891
Heinrich Kühn – The Perfect Photograph
Alexander Stolz – Erasmus – N. étudiant: 11031891
In recent years there have been an increasing number of shows about the Pictorialists, the fine art photographers around 1900. The Austrian photograph Heinrich Kühn counts as one of the most famous and most important among them. He is perceived as one of the founders of photography arts – the first style of art in photography, which could be established as own type of arts internationally. In the epoch between Post-Impressionism and the graphic planar of the Viennese Art Nouveau, Heinrich Kühn created a unique body of photographic work whose scope is still unknown, even to experts in that field. His work was shown at countless exhibitions and published in all the important art magazines between 1895 and 1915. The modernist potential of his art however was barely recognized during his lifetime. Heinrich Kühn was born in 1866 in Dresden. He came from a wealthy family, which was important to pursue his passion for photography, as this was an expensive hobby at that time. Once he completed his extensive studies in sciences, he became a member of the renowned Vienna Camera-Club. In association with other members of this club Kühn planned to develop photography into a medium of artistic expression rather than a medium that he and his associates felt had been demeaned by the advent of the professional photographic studio. Their English role models have been Peter Henry Emerson and George Davison. From the Frenchman Robert Demachy, they adopted the technique of gum bichromate prints, which is capable of rendering painterly images from photographic negatives. This technique suited well their vision of a photograph’s picture-like appearance. Heinrich Kühn and his fellows from the Vienna Camera-Club, can be seen as an early stream of “amateur” photography artists. More and more people of his