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Fred Koch (1904-1939?), 8 Animal Photographs, Germany, 1920s

Currency:EUR Category:Collectibles Start Price:1,000.00 EUR Estimated At:1,600.00 - 2,000.00 EUR
Fred Koch (1904-1939?), 8 Animal Photographs, Germany, 1920s
Vintage gelatin silver print mounted on green cardboard
Germany, 1920s
Fred Koch (1904-1939?) – German photographer
4 different motifs: ‘Crustacea/marine creatures prawn’, ‘Pappillon machaon on Daucus carota’, ‘locusta viridissima’, ‘Little grasshopper on wild teasel’
Verso on the cardboard typographically inscribed label with information of title, date and photographer
Verso on the cardboard various stamps ‘Folkwang Verlag, Photo: Fred Koch’, ‘Wilhelm Arnholdt Maschinensetzerei Hamburg 20, Falkenried 42’ as well as ‘Maya Heya Isolde Arnholdt’
Dimensions: each 12 x 17 cm
Provenance: Estate Wilhelm Arnholdt
Fred Koch’s works range between science and art; his photographs fetch up to 1,800 Euros at international auctions

These are eight vintage gelatin silver prints by the German photographer Fred Koch from the 1920s. The eight prints depict the four different motifs ‘Crustacea/marine creatures prawn’, ‘Pappillon machaon on Daucus carota’, ‘locusta viridissima’ and ‘Little grasshopper on wild teasel’. The austere elegant studies of plants by Fred Koch range between science and art. In their formal aesthetic they reduce the depicted to the substance, similar to Albert Renger-Patzsch’s work. The stamps on the reverse prove that Fred Koch took these photos for the Folkwang Verlag. The prints were generated from the negatives under the supervision of Ernst Fuhrmann, the director of the publishing house. Fuhrmann gave the archive to Wilhelm Arnholdt when he left Germany.



The eight photographs bear verso on the cardboard a typographically inscribed label with information of title, date and photographer. Also verso on the cardboard of each photograph are various stamps ‘Folkwang Verlag, Photo: Fred Koch’, ‘Wilhelm Arnholdt Maschinensetzerei Hamburg 20, Falkenried 42’ as well as ‘Maya Heya Isolde Arnholdt’. The photographs are partly slightly rubbed on the surface as well as with small scratch marks, several few photographs show dents. The dimensions are each 12 x 17 cm.



Fred Koch (1904-1939?)

The German photographer Fred Koch was mainly active during the 1920s. Of his works are mainly animal and plant photographs in the style of the Neue Sachlichkeit known, as well as landscape depictions. He was also active for the Folkwang publishing house. The photographer was born in 1904 in Berleburg and his track was lost after he was called up to fight in the Second World War. (tm)
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