JAROSLAV RÖSSLER (1902–1990)
‘Konstrukce’ (Eiffel Tower), 1928

Estimate: € 20.000–25.000

Vintage silver print

22,4 x 22 cm

Signed and dated by the photographer in ink on the reverse, photographer's Praha studio stamp on the reverse, traces of retouche

LITERATURE Vladimír Birgus (ed.), Jaroslav Rössler, Prague 2001, plate 42. Between 1927 and 1935 Jaroslav Rössler lived in Paris.

There he took some of his most striking and modernistic photographs. Like a number of other photographers Rössler was drawn to the modern beauty of the Eiffel Tower, which he saw as a symbol of modernity, like the train, the motor car, the aeroplane, and the radio. Rössler photographed the Eiffel Tower in a variety of low-angle, diagonal compositions and striking details. His photographs share aspects with Moholy-Nagy’s details of a steel tower, Germaine Krull’s photographs of the Eiffel Tower, and Rodchenko’s constructivist photographs of the Moscow Radio Tower. Employing a number of approaches from Avant-garde photography, this photograph is proof that Rössler was a modern-thinking photographer in his own right, and his lifelong goal was to apply abstract tendencies to his creative photography.

Start price: €12.000