Swann Galleries - New York With Scheel's typed name, title and "Hamburg," on a caption label on mount recto.
Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity or New Dispassion) photographer Ernst Sheel and his German contemporaries, Albert Renger-Patzsch, August Sander and Werner Mantz, pioneered a style in which precise depiction, devoid of emotional content, characterized the new visual language. The idiom was popular amongst European and American artists between the wars from the 1920s-1930s.
This photograph was included in a lot sold at the Swann Galleries auction "Important 19th & 20th Century Photographs" (New York, Mon Oct 15, 2007).
