Feb 07, 2008 - Sale 2135

Sale 2135 - Lot 61

Price Realized: $ 9,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
FIEDLER, FRANZ (1885-1956)
"Narre Tod Mine Spiegesell" [Fool Death, My Playmate]. Portfolio with 9 (of 10) photographs. Text by Thea Girardelli. Silver prints, approximately 8x6 inches (20.3x15.2 cm.) and the reverse, double-mounted to a sheet measuring 13x10 inches (33x25.4 cm.). Small folio, cloth-backed boards, with calligraphic title, edgewear; contents loose as issued. Dresden: Verlag der Schönheit [circa 1922]
Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

From William Dailey Books; to the present owner in 1999.


Franz Fiedler, a Czechoslovakian photographer born in Moravia, produced work that spanned from pictorialism to modernism. Fiedler worked with photographers Rudolf Duhrkoop in Hamburg and Hugo Erfurth in Dresden. He worked with advertising and portrait photography and began using a 9x12 folding camera, becoming one of the first professional photographers to use a Leica in 1924. Widely exhibited in the U. S. and Europe, in 1925, he took part in the exhibition, "Film und Foto" in Stuttgart and two years later he exhibited at the International Ausstellung des Deutschen Werkbund's "Film und Foto" show.


JPGs are available upon request.