OTTOMAR ANSCHÜTZ (1846-1907)

Animal studies, mid to late 1880s

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OTTOMAR ANSCHÜTZ (1846-1907)
Animal studies, mid to late 1880s
Thirty two albumen prints, sizes approx. 3¾ x 5½ in. to 7¾ x 5¾ in. or the reverse, thirty-one signed Ottomar Anschütz Lissa (Posen) and dated and each numbered in the negative, one with photographer's blindstamp and date on recto, each with photographer's ink credit stamp on verso. (32)

Literature

Jacobson, Études d'Après Nature: 19th Century Photographs in Relation to Art, pl. no. 5 and p. 169; Gernsheim, History of Photography, p. 443

Lot Essay

Anschütz was a German photographer who invented a 1/1000 second shutter which was later sold as the famous Goerz Anschütz camera. In the 1880s Anschütz used this apparatus to take a series of remarkably natural studies of the wild animals which roamed around his large estate. Such studies were refered to in the Photographic News, 1885, Vol. XXIX as being an enormous asset to artists.

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