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Karin Székessy, 1960s, Portrait of the artist Hans Bellmer (1902-1975) in his studio with his surrealistic doll., Gelatin silver print, Bassenge Photography Auctions, LL/15779
Hans Bellmer


Born: 1902, 13 March - Germany, Silesia, Katowice (Katowize)
Died: 1975, 23 February - France, Paris
Gender: Male
Active: Germany / France
 
Studied engineering at the Technische Hochaschule in Berlin and met Georg Grosz at the drawing classes. He worked at Malik Verlag as a graphic designer and this was the influential publishing house set up by the brother of John Heartfield. He is particularly remembered for his images of articulated dolls taken in contorted positions that were published in a book and in the surrealist publication ‘Minotaur‘. A memorial plaque was dedicated on his house at Ehrenfelsstraße 8 A in Berlin-Lichtenberg, S-Bahn Karlshorst (April 15, 2008)

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Hans Bellmer, 1934, Self-portrait with doll, Paris, Photograph, Internet - Original source ill-defined, LL/118788
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Karin Székessy, 1960s, Portrait of the artist Hans Bellmer (1902-1975) in his studio with his surrealistic doll., Gelatin silver print, Bassenge Photography Auctions, LL/15779
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Karin Székessy, 1961, Portrait of the artist Hans Bellmer (1902 - 1975) in his studio with his surrealistic doll "La Poupée", Gelatin silver print, Bassenge Photography Auctions, LL/91421
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Karin Székessy, 1965 (taken) 1980s (probably, print), Hans Bellmer, Gelatin silver print, Lempertz - Cologne, LL/56655
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Influenced by surrealism, Bellmer used sexually taboo imagery to symbolize and protest Nazi German society of the 1930s. Bellmer fabricated a life-size doll of a pubescent girl to make ambiguously erotic and jarring tableaus. Published as an artists' book, Bellmer's hand-colored photographs contrasted Nazism's mythic, utopian celebration of youth with the reality that it fostered abuse, decay, and death.
 
(Author: RH)
 
Michael Peres (Editor-in-Chief), 2007, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, (Focal Press) [ISBN-10: 0240807405, ISBN-13: 978-0240807409] (Used with permission)
 
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Hans Bellmer (13 March 1902 - 24 February 1975) was a German artist, best known for his drawings, etchings that illustrates the 1940 edition of Histoire de l-™Åil, and the life-sized female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer.
 

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