HOEPPFNER MARTA (active 1930s) Traum [Sudden Fright]

Sale 2124 - Lot 80

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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500

HOEPPFNER, MARTA (active 1930s)
"Traum [Sudden Fright]." Collage with original photographic elements, overall size 5x7 inches (12.7x17.7 cm.), flush mounted, with Hoeppfner's hand stamps, label and a handwritten title and date on mount verso. 1935

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Reproduced in Das Illustrierte Blatt, March 1936. An unabashedly Freudian-inspired image, from the fanciful series, "Tonight I Dreamed (A Stroll Over the Waves of Consciousness.)"

The caption translates: "Sudden Fright. Suddenly a bizarre being appears before her. Its form is indescribable, and its glowing breath hisses menacingly. In horror, the dreamer screams." (See: The New Yorker Magazine, Feb. 17-24, 1936, p. 20.)