Elisabeth Hase Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1905 - d. 1991

Elisabeth Hase began her studies in 1924 at the Art Academy in Frankfurt. For five years she studied typography and graphic design with renowned teachers like Willi Baumeister and Paul Renner. By 1933 assignments became a political issue and Elisabeth Hase set up a studio of her own to stay as independent as possible. Her focus was on still lives, plants, dolls, people and especially intriguing self-portraits. She made her own person the object of photographic sequences that tell a story in stills which experiment with identity and perceived reality. During the air raid on Frankurt in 1944 her cameras and other equipment were lost, however, her archives of glass and film negatives survived. Hase's work has been shown in the Folkwang Museum, Essen; the Historical Museum, Frankfurt; and the Museum of Photography, Braunschweig. Her work is found in prominent museum collections internationally, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Gallery, The Museum of Modern Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Chrysler Museum of Art, Folkwang Museum in Essen, The Albertina Museum in Vienna and The Bauhaus Museum of Design in Berlin.