Moritz Nara, photographer of Viennese modernism, is shown in the Leopold Museum

23 October 2018, 00:51 | Art
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Thanks to Moritz Nara (1859–1945), we know what the three key figures of Europe looked like? cultures of the twentieth century: Gustav Klimt, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Gustav Mahler.

Nar began to shoot the artists of the Viennese Secession from 1898, when their first exhibition took place.. I also had a close friendship with Klimt.. It is even known that the landscape "Beech Forest" in 1902, the artist created under the influence of photographs of Nara. In 2012, at Sotheby's auction, the vintage print of “Klimt with a cat” (1910–1912), the most famous image of the author “Kiss,” was sold for € 32,000. , twice exceeding the estimate.

Nar had long acted as a freelance freelance artist, which was new in the early twentieth century; he was supported by the rich Wittgenstein family. Nar managed to work on the Austro-Hungarian Empire:

in 1908, Archduke Franz Ferdinand appointed him court photographer. From this time left a photo of the heir to the throne and portraits of Emperor Franz Joseph.

Eighty-four photographs from Austrian museums and private collections span a 30-year career in Nara. In addition to portraits and self portraits of different years, they include street photos of Vienna both before the advent of the modern Otto Wagner era, such as the Fish Market, and after its triumphant ascension to the European architectural throne.




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