Collosseum in Rome, ca. 1900
Gelatin silver print
Image dimensions5 x 9,9 cm
About the workThanks to their unusual materiality, these images are not recognisable as photographs at first glance. As if painted with a fine brushstroke, the motifs emerge from their monochrome background by means of light and dark shades. These pictures were probably taken on a study trip to Italy that Elise Mahler undertook in 1901 together with the Austrian artist Maria Ressel, who attended the painting school Mahler founded in Rothenburg ob der Tauber in 1897. They ran the school together from 1900 and also opened a commercial gallery with a postcard publishing house.
AccessionGift 2019
Provenance[...]; 2019 erworben durch Schenkung von Kicken Berlin in Erinnerung an Rudolf Kicken
Inventory numberF.2019.797
