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Frans Blei.
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Hugo ErfurthGerman Photographer · 1874–1948
All works by this person →While studying painting at the Fine Arts School in Dresden in 1892, Hugo Erfurth became an apprentice photographer. Two years later, he received a silver medal at an amateur photography show, and in 1896 he took over the studio of Dresden's court photographer. His work was largely Pictorialist in style, and he was aligned with the *Kunstfotografie* (art photography) group in Germany and Austria, t
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- 1928
- Medium
- Oil pigment print
- Culture
- German
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
The bespectacled Franz Blei, a scholar of erotic poetry, holds aloft an unlighted cigarette between the fingers of his rigid right hand and props his chin on an outstretched thumb. Wearing a knowing expression, he leans slightly toward the camera while resting his elbow on his gracefully cupped left hand. The acute right angle of his arm is absorbed into the deep black of his jacket. Hugo Erfurth printed the image using the painterly oil pigment process, which produced a grainy texture, obliterating hard edges and crisp detail and softening features.
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