Imre Kinszki - Wing of a lacewing - image-1

Lot 39 Dα

Imre Kinszki - Wing of a lacewing

Auction 1077 - overview Cologne
02.12.2016, 15:00 - Photography
Estimate: 1.200 € - 1.500 €
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Imre Kinszki

Wing of a lacewing
1930s

Vintage gelatin silver print. 13 x 12 cm (17.3 x 12.4 cm). Titled and inscribed '30 x' in pencil as well as typewritten photographer's name on the verso. - Here and there very fine retouchings..

Greatly influenced by the modernism of photography and its protagonists such as Brassai and László Moholy-Nagy Kinszki was an important spokesman and a committed representative of the 'Neues Sehen' [New Vision] movement in Hungary during the 1920s. He was particularly interested in macro photography for which he developed a special camera, the 'Kinsecta'. Despite good contacts to countrymen abroad Kinszki didn't succeed in leaving the country and he fell a victim of the Nazi regime due to his Jewish origin. (cf. also Károly Kincses (ed.), Photographes. Made in Hungary, Milan 1998, pp. 167)

Provenance

Private collection, Hungary