Hans Finsler
Switzerland (1891—1972)
Trained as art historian, Finsler became photographer as autodidact. He started to take still lifes and developed his own aesthetics with the New Objectivity movement. At the beginning of 1920s Most chocolate company in Halle commissioned him to take pictures of the factory and manufacturing process: these images became part of the FiFo touring exhibition in 1929. He became director of the photography course at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zürich and taught there for nearly 26 years.
Arts et métiers graphiques 16
Photographie / Magazine / 24 x 30.9 cm / Paris, 1930 (1980) / © 1930, Arts et Métiers Graphiques Paris
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Andreas Feininger / John Heartfield / Lucia Moholy / Walter Peterhans / Franz Roh / Jan Tschichold / Umbo (Otto Umbehr) / Piet Zwart / Eugène Atget / Albert Renger-Patzsch / Max Burchartz / Hans Finsler / Arvid Gutschow / Brett Weston / Max Ernst / Florence Henri / El Lissitzky (Lazar Markovich Lissitzky) / László Moholy-Nagy / Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)
Foto-auge
76 Fotos der Zeit / Photographic book with letterpress cover by El Lissitzky / Heliogravure / 20.6 x 29.2 cm / Stuttgart, 1929 (1973) / © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Eggs in the mirror II (Eier im Spiegel II)
Original photography / Gelatin silver print / 17.7 x 25.1 cm / 1929 (2003) / © Stiftung Moritzburg, Kunstmuseum des Landes. Sachsen-Anhalt