Lot 39: Water behind glass, 1930

WILLY ZIELKE (1902-1989)
Water behind glass, 1930
gelatin silver print
signed, dated and annotated 'München' by photographer, credited and numbered '47','295' [crossed out] in other hands in graphite/coloured was pencil, 'Gesellschaft Deutscher Lichtbildner' [German Photographic Society] stamp on verso
9 x 7in. (23 x 17.8cm.)

For another image from this series, see: Auer, Photographers Encyclopedia International: 1839 to the present, Editions Camera Obscura, 1985, n.p.

As lot 27.

PROPERTY FROM THE SPRINGEFELD COLLECTION

Zielke, of Polish origin, studied at Tashkent in the Soviet Union and in Munich, where he became a teacher in 1928. He was fascinated by the transformative possibilities of photography that gave a new visual materialisation to transparent substances such as glass and water.