Rudolf Koppitz

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In the lap of nature , self-portrait (1923)

Rudolf Koppitz (born January 3, 1884 in Schreiberseifen , Austrian Silesia , Austria-Hungary , † July 8, 1936 in Perchtoldsdorf , Lower Austria ) was an Austrian photographer .

Life

In 1897 he trained as a photographer with the studio photographer Robert Rotter in Freudenthal . From 1913 he was an assistant and, after the First World War, a teacher at the graphic teaching and research institute in Vienna .

In the 1920s, Koppitz became known primarily for his nudes , some of which are still close to Art Nouveau and some to Constructivism in terms of their shape and design . His most famous photo shows a movement study of the dance group of Claudia Issatschenko, mother of choreographer Tatjana Gsovsky and linguist Alexander Issachenko , recorded in 1925 , in which an unclothed dancer can be seen walking in a back bend in front of a triangular formation made up of three dark-clad dancers. One of his most important students was Edward Hartwig .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1924: Rudolf Koppitz , Gewerbeförderungsinstitut, Chamber for Trade, Commerce and Industry, Vienna
  • 1928: Rudolf Koppitz , Academy of Sciences, Vienna
  • 1930: Rudolf Koppitz , Boston Camera Club (further positions in the USA: Kodak Park Camera Club Rochester; Camera Club of New York; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (there titled: Fifty-five Pictorialist Views by Professor Rudolf Koppitz ); Chicago Camera Club; San Francisco Camera Club; Fort Dearborn Camera Club; Photographic Society, Philadelphia)
  • 1936: Rudolf Koppitz. Country and People , Austrian Museum for Art and Industry, Vienna (today: Museum for Applied Arts ); Chamber of Commerce, Graz
  • 1995: Rudolf Koppitz: 1884-1936 , Historical Museum of the City of Vienna (further stations: Frankfurter Kunstverein, 1995; USA 1996 ao: University of Iowa Museum of Art; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery at Northwestern University; Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University)
  • 1999: Rudolf Koppitz. Vintage Photographs 1908-1927, Galerie Rudolf Kicken, Cologne
  • 2002: Rudolf Koppitz and Heinrich Kühn , Kicken Berlin
  • 2003: The Eye and the Apparatus. A history of photography from the collections of the Albertina, Albertina , Vienna (further station: Photo Museum in the Munich City Museum)
  • 2007: Photo: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945 , National Gallery of Art, Washington DC (further stations: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Milwaukee Art Museum; Scottish National Gallery of Art, Edinburgh)
  • 2008: Football in Vienna. The world champions , Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
  • 2009: Pictorialism. Hidden Modernism. Photography 1896-2008 , Kicken Berlin
  • 2010: Rudolf Koppitz. Photographs 1912-1936 , Galerie Johannes Faber, Vienna
  • 2012: Rudolf Koppitz and Other European Masters , Kicken Berlin
  • 2013: Rudolf Koppitz , Moravská Gallery, Brno
  • 2016: Country & People. From the photo collection of the Albertina, Albertina, Vienna

literature

  • Koppitz Rudolf. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 120.
  • Josef Gottschammel (Ed.): Rud. Koppitz (Master Books of Photography, Vol. 3), Vienna 1937.
  • Monika Faber (Ed.): Rudolf Koppitz 1884–1936. Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85447-575-6 .
  • Monika Faber, Klaus Albrecht Schröder (ed.): The eye and the apparatus. The Albertina photo collection. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2003, ISBN 978-3-7757-1307-8 .
  • Matthew Witkovsky: Photo: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918–1945. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Washington 2007, ISBN 978-0-500-54337-5 .
  • Georg Kargl, Annette and Rudolf Kicken (eds.): Pictorialism. Hidden Modernism. Photography 1896-2008. Berlin u. Vienna 2008.
  • Monika Faber (Ed.): Rudolf Koppitz 1884–1936. Photogeny. Photoinstitut Bonartes, Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-85033-744-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Koppitz, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian photographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Writing soaps , Austrian Silesia
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1936
Place of death Perchtoldsdorf , Lower Austria