Auction Photographie

251st Auction "Photography" on the 1st December 2006, 4 pm
Preview: 24th till 30th November 2006

On the first of December more than 450 photographs from the 19th up to the 21st century will be presented by VAN HAM Fine Art Auctions in Cologne. This offer includes works by notable national and international artists, including Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Éduard Baldus, Cecil Beaton, Monika von Boch, Brassaï, Julia Margaret Cameron, Giacomo Caneva, Lee Friedlander, Ron Galella, Gustave Le Gray, F.C. Gundlach, Hill & Adamson, Peter Keetman, Fritz Kühn, Robert McPherson, Walter Niedermayr, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Tata Ronkholz, Jaroslav Rössler, August Sander, Jörg Sasse, Karl Hugo Schmölz, Toni Schneiders, Steven Shore, Beat Streuli, Josef Sudek, Ludwig Windstosser and Piet Zwaart.

One highlight of the upcoming fall auction is photographs from the 19th century, especially photographs with roman architecture- and landscape scenery originating during the mid 1800s. Included are two rare salt prints by Giacomo Caneva (Estimate: 1 200€) as well as a large-format view on Tivoli by Robert McPherson (Estimate: 2 000€). One architecture photograph dating from the 1860s is by Charles Marville (Estimate: 1 200€). One large-format original print by the photographer Gustave Le Gray depicting Tour St. Jacques in Paris is estimated 3 000 €. Fritz Kühn is represented with a beautiful still life (Estimate: 5 000€).

Traditionally VAN HAM Fine Art Auctions offers a wide range of photographs from the 1920s to the 1960s. The oeuvre of Albert Renger-Patzsch is represented by a number of original prints stemming from several creative phases of the artist; from early flora and landscape themes, rare works depicting the Ore mountains up to his later works (Estimates up to 3 800€). Interesting are also the nature studies of Alfred Ehrhardts (Estimates up to 1 000€). Amongst the original prints of the Cologne photographer August Sander are a series of portraits from the 1910/20s set in the Western Woods (Estimates: 800€ - 2 400€). An outstanding piece by August Sander is a unique 1940-reproduction of an original photomontage (Estimate: 9 000€). Excellent architecture images of the 1950s by the >>Fotowerkstätte Hugo Schmölz>Gruppe ‘fotoform'