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Heinz Hajek-Halke

1898 – Berlin – 1983

Heinz Hajek-Halke. Portfolio with 12 reprints from 1927–1960.

12 Gelatin silver prints, 1978. From 33,8 × 23 cm to 34 × 27,5 cm (each 40,4 × 30,4 cm) (13 ¼ × 9 in. to 13 ⅜ × 10 ⅞ in. (each 15 ⅞ × 12 in.)).
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Estimate:

EUR 2,500

 

- 3,500

Auction 765

Sunday, 11.10.2026, 6:00 PM

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12 Gelatin silver prints, 1978. From 33,8 × 23 cm to 34 × 27,5 cm (each 40,4 × 30,4 cm) (13 ¼ × 9 in. to 13 ⅜ × 10 ⅞ in. (each 15 ⅞ × 12 in.)). Each print signed in pencil in the margin lower right, edition number lower left. 10 prints numbered by an unknown hand in pencil on the reverse. Each is mounted on cardboard in a mat (50 x 40 cm), with an attached paper strip bearing printed work details. Title sheet with printed work- and edition information, thereupon on the reverse the edition number in pencil. Together in grey original-half linen-covered box (52,5 x 41,5 x 5 cm) with black title imprint; "HEINZ / HAJEK- / HALKE" and edition note: "Edition Werner Kunze. Berlin 1978". Each print is one of 28 + 3 H.C. editioned copies, published by Werner Kunze Gallery, Berlin, 1978. [2077]


The portfolio contains the following motifs:
1. Der Gassenhauer, 1927 - Belichtungsmontage/ 2 Negative
2. Spiegelakt, 1933 - Normalaufnahme, bei der Vergrößerung durch Spiegel verdoppelt
3. Stehender Akt, 1933 - Normalaufnahme
4. Liegender Akt, Ende der 20er-Jahre - Normalaufnahme
5. Die üble Nachrede, 1932 - Belichtungsmontage/ 2 Negative
6. Vorschlag für eine Werbeaufnahme, 1935 - Belichtungsmontage
7. Friedhof der Fische, 1939 - Table-Top-Aufnahme/ 2 Negative
8. Weibliche Impression, 1938 - Drahtmontage/ Fahrradspeichen (verchromt) mit fahrender Kamera aufgenommen
9. Gläsernes Monument - 1946, Drahtmontage und Normalaufnahme
10. Der Gong, 1960 - Belichtungsmontage/ 2 Negative kombiniert mit Uhren-Spirale
11. Leichte Dünung, 1956 - Licht-Grafik
12. Windrosen, 1956 - Licht-Grafik
Condition Report: In good to very good condition. Slightly satin finish heavy paper. No defects are visible in the illustrations. The sheet margins are slightly wavy; three of them a bit stronger, two of which have a faint horizontal crease mark in the right edge, and one has a mark from a paper clip in the centre of the top edge. Original box with minor signs of wear

Hajek-Halke: Experimentelle Fotografie. Lichtgrafik. Bonn 1955, p. 29 (there detail, Das trunkene Schiff), p. 39 (Weibliche Impression), p. 32 (Gläsernes Monument) / Hajek-Halke: Lichtgrafik. With an introduction by Franz Roh. Düsseldorf 1964, pl. 9 (Leichte Dünung) / Gesellschaft Deutscher Lichtbildner (Ed.): Heinz Hajek-Halke. Göttingen 1978, p. 25 (Üble Nachrede - Ende der zwanziger Jahre), p. 35 (Weibliche Impression, 1946) / Exh. cat.: Hajek-Halke. Basel, Art 25, Rudolf Kicken Gallery, 1994, pl. 1 (Katharina HHH, geb. Bayer, n.d.), pl. 9 (Die üble Nachrede, 1953) / Michael Ruetz and Rolf Sachsse (Ed.): Heinz Hajek-Halke. Form aus Licht und Schatten, Vol. 1. Göttingen, Steidl, 2005, p. 37 (Der Gassenhauer, ca. 1930), p. 45 (Die üble Nachrede, 1932), p. 89 (Untitled, 1930-32), p. 113 (Schwarz-Weißer Akt, Vorstudie, 1930-36), p. 145 (illustration rotated by 180°, Friedhof der Fische, ca. 1939), p. 171 (Untitled, ca. 1946), p. 177 (Weibliche Impression, 1947-50) / Michael Ruetz and Rolf Sachsse (Ed.): Heinz Hajek-Halke. Form aus Licht und Schatten, vol. 2. Göttingen, Steidl, 2005, p. 108 (there advertising page: ohne Stimme kein Gesang (Eukutol), ca. 1932), p. 128 (there variation for the newspaper page, „am morgen - am abend, 1941), p. 132 (there variation, dust jacket Eva und Melchior Vischer: Elisabeth geht zum Tonfilm, 1932) / Michael Ruetz and Rolf Sachsse (Ed.): Heinz Hajek-Halke. Form aus Licht und Schatten, Vol. 3. Der Alchimist. Göttingen, Steidl, 2012, p. 22 and p. 106 (Gläsernes Monument, ca. 1955), p. 98 (Das trunkene Schiff, 1951), p. 131 (Windrosen, ca. 1961)

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