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Heinrich Kühn In Bacino di San Marco, Venezia Kombinationsgummidruck auf strukturiertem Aquarellpapier. 50,6 x 65,7 cm. Oben links mit Tusche signiert. Rückseitig mit Bleistift betitelt. Provenienz Sammlung George Eastman House, Rochester, New York; Sammlung Harvey Shipley und Randall Plummer; Christie's New York, The Miller-Plummer Collection, 8. Oktober 2009, Lot 609; Privatsammlung, USA Ausstellungen Rochester 1983 (International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House) u.a., Particulars: Selections from the Miller-Plummer Collection of Photography; Houston 2011 (The Museum of Fine Arts), Heinrich Kühn: The Perfect Photograph Literatur Alfred Stieglitz (Hg.), Camera Work, Heft 33, New York 1911 (Halbtondruck dieses Motivs, hier betitelt: venice); Particulars: Selections from the Miller-Plummer Collection of Photography, Rochester 1983, Tafel 132 (dieser Abzug); Simone Philippi/Ute Kieseyer (Hg.), Camera Work. The Complete Illustrations 1903 - 1907, Köln u.a. 1997, S. 554 mit Abb.; Monika Faber (Hg.), Heinrich Kuehn and his American Circle. Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen, Ausst.kat. Neue Galerie, New York, München u.a. 2012, S. 20 mit Abb. (hier datiert und betitelt: Fishermen on the Canal, 1908) Die Stadt Venedig gehörte zu jenen Reisezielen, die Heinrich Kühn wiederholt aufsuchte, um sie in seinen Bildern festzuhalten. Es mögen die der Stadt eigene Atmosphäre und insbesondere das Licht gewesen sein, die den Photographen anzogen, fügen sich diese Elemente doch auf ideale Weise in seinen Bilderkosmos ein. Seine in den späten 1890er Jahren entstandenen, großformatigen Gummidrucke gleichen eher impressionistischen Studien denn herkömmlichen Photographien, nicht die detailgetreue Wiedergabe des Gesehenen steht hier im Vordergrund, sondern die Betonung des Atmosphärischen sowie die vom Photographen momentan wahrgenommene Stimmung. Über das leicht gekräuselte Wasser, in dessen sanften Wellen sich die den Bildvordergrund bestimmenden Boote spiegeln, wandert der Blick über den Bacino di San Marco auf den Dogenpalast und den Campanile des Markusdoms. Deren zarte Silhouetten trennen das Wasser vom Himmel, der als unbewegt-einheitliche Fläche einen großen Teil des Bildes ausmacht und zu dem die bewegte Wasseroberfläche einen spannungsvollen Kontrast bildet. Kräftige Akzente setzt Kühn durch die sich dunkel abhebende Barke mit den zwei Ruderern links sowie dem Segelboot am rechten Bildrand, deren diagonal verlaufende Ruder, Masten und Taue die Komposition im Zusammenspiel mit den geschwungenen Reflexen auf den Wellen gleichsam in Schwingung versetzen. Kühn steht hier ganz in der Tradition der Vedutenmalerei des 19. Jahrhunderts, die weniger die exakte Darstellung der Architektur, als vielmehr die Wiedergabe stimmungsvoller Reize und genrehafter Details in den Mittelpunkt stellte. Im Jahr 1911 widmete Alfred Stieglitz seinem Kollegen und Freund Heinrich Kühn eine Ausgabe der von ihm herausgegebenen Zeitschrift Camera Work. Dass auch diese Ansicht Venedigs darin Eingang fand, zeugt von der besonderen Wertschätzung, die beide Photographen dem hier nun als repräsentativem Gummidruck vorliegenden Motiv entgegenbrachten. Heinrich Kühn In Bacino di San Marco, Venezia Gum dichromate print on structured water colour paper. 50.8 x 65.7 cm. Signed in Indian ink upper left. Titled in pencil on the verso. Provenance Collection of George Eastman House, Rochester, New York; collection of Harvey Shipley and Randall Plummer; Christie's New York, The Miller-Plummer Collection, October 8, 2009, lot 609; private collection, USA Exhibitions Rochester 1983 (International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House) i.a., Particulars: Selections from the Miller-Plummer Collection of Photography; Houston 2011 (The Museum of Fine Arts), Heinrich Kühn: The Perfect Photograph Literature Alfred Stieglitz (ed.), Camera Work, issue 33, New York 1911 (half tone reproduction of the image, here titled: Venice); Simone Philippi/Ute Kieseyer (ed.), Camera Work. The Complete Illustrations 1903 - 1907, Cologne i.a. 1997, ill. p. 554; Particulars: Selections from the Miller-Plummer Collection of Photography, Rochester 1983, plate 132 (this print); Monika Faber (ed.), Heinrich Kuehn and his American Circle. Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen, exhib.cat. Neue Galerie, New York, Munich i.a. 2012, ill. p. 20 (here dated and titled: Fishermen on the Canal, 1908) The town of Venice pertained to those travel destinations that Heinrich Kühn repeatedly visited in order to capture them in his photographs. It might have been the town's atmosphere and in particular the light that attracted the photographer, since these elements fit perfectly into his cosmos of pictures. His large-format gum bichromates, created in the late 1890s, resemble impressionistic studies rather than conventional photographs. The focus lies not on the faithful reproduction of what has been seen, but on the atmosphere and the mood perceived by the photographer at that moment. The gaze wanders across the softly rippling water, reflecting the boats that dominate the foreground of the picture in the gentle waves, and then continues to the Bacino di San Marco to the Doge's Palace and the campanile of St. Mark's Basilica. Their delicate silhouettes separate the water from the sky, which constitutes a greater part of the picture as an immobile, uniform surface forming an exciting contrast to the dynamic surface of the water. Kühn sets strong accents with the dark contrast of the barque with the two oars on the left and the sailing boat on the right, whose diagonal lines of oars and masts cause the composition to oscillate as if in interaction with the curved reflections on the waves. Kühn positions himself entirely in the tradition of 19th century veduta painting, which focused less on the exact depiction of architecture but rather on the reproduction of idyllic attractions and genre-like details. In 1911, the publisher Alfred Stieglitz dedicated an issue of the journal Camera Work to his colleague and friend Heinrich Kühn. The fact that this view of Venice was also included in the journal testifies to the particular esteem in which both photographers held this motif, which is now presented here as a representative rubber print.
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