Josef Ehm - Look Out Children! A Competition for You (Advertising Posters)
Click for Full Size
|
Contact: Alex Novak and Marthe Smith
Email: info@vintageworks.net
Phone: +1-215-822-5662
Company: Contemporary Works / Vintage Works, Ltd.
258 Inverness Circle
Chalfont, PA 18914 USA
URL: http://www.vintageworks.net
Ref.#: 10458Price: $4,500
Medium: Silver printMount: unmountedPhoto Date: 1936Print Date: 1936Dimensions: 3-1/2 x 3-3/8 in. (89 x 86 mm)Photo Country: Czech RepublicPhotographer Country: Czech Republic
|
DESCRIPTION:With photographer's stamp on verso. His vintage prints from the 1930s are very rare and sought after. See: Zdenek Kirschner, Josef Ehm: A Retrospective Exhibition (Catalog, Jacques Baruch Gallery, Chicago 1990), p.21. Provenance: the artist's wife's personal collection. Josef Ehm was born August 1, 1909 in Habartov, Czechoslovakia. Along with Jamomir Funke, he was a teacher at the State School of Graphic Art in Prague from 1934 to 1946. In 1935 he participated in preparation of the legendary book "Photography Sees Surface". His artistic photographs are renowned for a unique combination of avant-garde creative methods and technical brilliance. He was a part of the New Objectivity movement. He died in 1989. Shipping and insurance costs will be added to the price and must be paid for by the buyer. Pennsylvania and New York buyers must pay appropriate sales tax. International clients are responsible for their VAT and other custom's oriented charges.
