21st Nov, 2025 17:00

OstLicht Photo Auction Autumn 2025

 
  Lot 34
 

GERMAINE KRULL (1897–1985)
Seaside resort Juan-les-Pins, Côte d'Azur, France 1931

Estimate
€2,000 - €2,400
 

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Lot details

Start price: € 1,200

Estimate: € 2,000–2,400

Vintage silver print on double-weight semi-matte paper, in good condition. Photographer's copyright stamp with address in Paris, "Schostal" agency stamp and various handwritten notations in pencil and crayon on the reverse.

The avant-garde photographer Germaine Krull created major works of the "New Vision" and the modernist photo book. Her unconventional approach was also evident in the wide range of her working areas. As a press photographer, she toured through France in her own car. In a series about Mediterranean beaches, she showed by no means only glamorous or atmospheric postcard motifs, but also the bustling density of less mundane seaside resorts. Here the socio-political context of paid holidays and mass tourism becomes manifest, in which France played a pioneering role in the 1930s.

Deutsch:

Vintage-Silbergelatineabzug auf kartonstarkem, halbmattem Papier, in gutem Zustand. Rückseitig Copyrightstempel der Fotografin mit Adresse in Paris, "Schostal"-Agenturstempel sowie verschiedene handschriftliche Vermerke in Bleistift und Buntstift.

Die Avantgarde-Fotografin Germaine Krull schuf Hauptwerke des "Neuen Sehens" und des modernen Fotobuchs. Ihre unkonventionelle Herangehensweise zeigte sich auch in der großen Bandbreite ihrer Arbeitsbereiche. Als Pressefotografin tourte sie mit ihrem eigenen Auto durch Frankreich. In einer Serie über Mittelmeerstrände zeigte sie keineswegs nur glamouröse oder stimmungsvolle Postkartenmotive, sondern auch die geschäftige Dichte preiswerter Seebäder. Hier wird der gesellschaftspolitische Kontext von bezahltem Urlaub und Massentourismus deutlich, worin Frankreich in den 1930er-Jahren eine Vorreiterrolle spielte.

Image Size: 15.8 x 14.6 cm

 

Auction: OstLicht Photo Auction Autumn 2025, 21st Nov, 2025

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