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Baronne Van Zuilen

Photograph
1943 (photographed), 1991 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Ilse Bing (1899-1998) was one of several leading women photographers in the inter-war period. Born into a Jewish family in Frankfurt, she initially pursued an academic career before moving to Paris in 1930 to concentrate on photography.In 1941 she emigrated from Paris to New York to escape imprisonment during the Second World War. After a break from photography, she began to start taking commissions for portraits again.

Bing applied elements of her oblique, sober, experimental style to commercial photography. This partly solarised print of Baroness Van Zuilen uses light and stark outlines to surreal effect, recalling some of Bing’s photographs from the 1930s. The lilies behind are abstract, framing the sitter as she floats in her lavish outfit.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleBaronne Van Zuilen (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Gelatin-silver print from solarised negative
Brief description
Baronne Van Zuilen, photograph by Ilse Bing (1899-1998), 1943, solarised gelatin-silver print, printed 1991
Physical description
Portrait of a woman from a solarised negative surrounded by lilies.
Dimensions
  • Sheet height: 35.4cm
  • Sheet width: 27.9cm
  • Image height: 34.2cm
  • Image width: 23.5cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'ILSE/BING/1943/[1991]/Baronne Van Zuilen' (reverse in pencil, written by Bing)
  • 'ILSE BING 1943' (artist's signature, white ink, top right of image)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Ilse Bing Wolff
Production
Printed 1991
Subject depicted
Summary
Ilse Bing (1899-1998) was one of several leading women photographers in the inter-war period. Born into a Jewish family in Frankfurt, she initially pursued an academic career before moving to Paris in 1930 to concentrate on photography.In 1941 she emigrated from Paris to New York to escape imprisonment during the Second World War. After a break from photography, she began to start taking commissions for portraits again.

Bing applied elements of her oblique, sober, experimental style to commercial photography. This partly solarised print of Baroness Van Zuilen uses light and stark outlines to surreal effect, recalling some of Bing’s photographs from the 1930s. The lilies behind are abstract, framing the sitter as she floats in her lavish outfit.
Collection
Accession number
E.3065-2004

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Record createdOctober 24, 2005
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