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Kurt Kranz (born 1910)

Hülsen

signed and dated lower right Kurt Kranz 1933 and inscribed with title lower left and inscribed Naturselbstdruck, photogram on paper, unframed
46.5 x 31.5 cm

Lot Essay

Kranz possibly made his first photogram in the Advertising work class at Bauhaus in Dessau. At that moment Joost Schmidt was in charge.
"Kranz greift in diesen Werken auf eine Technik zurück, die schon zu Beginn des 16. Jahrhunderts zur wissenschaftlich-exakten Illustration botanischer Bücher in Italien entwickelt wurde." (See for more information on these works Gerda Wendermann in Werner Hofmann (ed), Kurt Kranz, Das Unendliche Bild, Hamburg 1990, p. 37

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