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ATLIER MANASSÉ (Biographical data unknown)

Portrait of a lady
gelatin silver print 22,3 x 15,9 cm
signed on the mount and in negative

SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE € 200 - 400
STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE € 200

The Atelier Manassé was a photography studio in Vienna and Berlin. It was founded in 1924 in Vienna by the married couple Adorján von Wlassics (1893–1946) and his wife Olga, née Spolarics (1896–1969). The studio‘s first illustrations appeared in magazines that same year. The Atelier Manassé achieved considerable fame in the 1920s through its erotic and glamorous (nude) photographs, primarily of women. The artists often combined eroticism with surreal motifs in their photographs. Some of the subjects were Viennese society figures. In the second half of the 1920s, the studio specialized in “bizarre nude montages”: Adorján von Wlassics processed photographs taken by Olga using painterly means, thus creating “photo paintings". Further artists and styles: Theater photography, film photography, dance photography, fashion photography, Art Deco Photography, Jazz Age, nude photography, advertising photography, Madame d‘Ora, Arthur Benda, Edith Glogau
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