12th Oct, 2019 16:00

OstLicht Photo Auction Autumn 2019

 
  Lot 7
 

ANTON JOSEF TRCKA (1893–1940)
‘Aktstudie’, Vienna c. 1925

Sold for €6,500


Lot details

Estimate: € 10.000–12.000

Vintage silver print

17,8 x 13 cm

Anton Josef Trčka started his artistic education in 1911 in Karel Novák’s photography class at the Grafische Lehrund Versuchsanstalt. Unfortunately his career was not very successful and his oeuvre was almost completely destroyed when in 1944 a bomb strike hit his studio. Trčka had been working at the studio of photographer Hella Katz, situated on the Viennese Stubenring since 1925, there he founded the »Ringwerkstätten für Kunsthandwerk und Lichtbildkunst« in 1926, which existed until 1934. During this time Trčka was working on a group of nude and dance studies, including the present print, which has not been published until now. The model appears on a couple of published nude studies, which makes it easy to attribute and date the print. (see: Monika Faber, Anton Josef Trčka. 1893–1940, Vienna 1999, p. 104). The vintage print is offered for the first time at an auction.

Start price: €5.000