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Astfalck-Vietz, Martha
(1901-1994)Nude self-portraits

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 29.11.2025

Nude self-portraits. Circa 1925. 2 vintage reproduction gelatin silver prints by the artist. 10 x 14,5 cm and 14,5 x 10 cm. Each signed in the negative in lower left; one annotated in pencil on the verso.

In the 1920s, Marta Astfalck-Vietz, who collaborated with photographer Heinz Hajek-Halke on a series of experimental “Combi-Phots”, also created numerous self-portraits in varying settings and costumes, exploring themes of identity, performance, and theatricality. Much of her archive was lost during the 1943 bombing of Berlin, and her work remained largely forgotten until it was rediscovered by Janos Frecot, then head of the photography department at the Berlinische Galerie. A major retrospective followed in 1991. While most of her commercial photography is presumed lost, the surviving works were later donated to the Berlinische Galerie. – Minimal oxidation mirroring in edges, otherwise in very good condition.

Lit.: Janos Frecot , ed. Marta Astfalck-Vietz - Photographien 1922-1935. Berlin: Berlinische Galerie, 1991.