Gertrude Käsebier

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Self-portrait , around 1899
Blessed Art Thou Among Women (quote from the Western church form of the Ave Maria , German equivalent: "You are blessed among women"), around 1899

Gertrude Käsebier , also Gertrude Stanton Kasebier , née Stanton, (born May 18, 1852 in Des Moines , Iowa , † October 13, 1934 in New York ) was an American photographer . She is considered to be one of the most important representatives of pictorialism .

Live and act

The Cristal Gazer , 1904
Rose O'Neill, portrayed in Gertrude Käsebier's studio, 1907

Gertrude Stanton, who grew up in Colorado and moved to New York as a teenager, only came to professional photography at a more mature age . In 1874 she married Eduard Käsebier, a businessman of German descent. Towards the end of the 1880s she completed an artistic training at the Pratt Institute in New York. A wife and mother of three, she began taking occasional family photos in the 1890s. Only later, after further training with a portrait photographer, did she open her own photo studio in New York in 1897.

With her portrait photographs she quickly had economic success; as early as 1898 an exhibition in the New York Camera Club was dedicated to her. In 1903, Alfred Stieglitz published six of her photographs in the first edition of his magazine for photography, Camera Work , including the picture opposite, Blessed Art Thou among Women .

Her painting The Manger (The Manger) fetched 100 dollars in 1899, the highest sales price ever paid for an art photograph . Käsebier was the first woman to be accepted into the Brotherhood of the Linked Ring ; in 1902 she was a founding member of the Photo-Secession . Due to differing views, however, she separated from the Secession, which was largely influenced by Stieglitz, and founded the Picturial Photographers of America in 1910 as a rival association .

In addition to portrait photographs and, later, landscape photographs, Gertrude Käsebier is known for her romantic mother-child motifs, in which she gave priority to the design of the tonal values ​​over compositional questions. Although Gertrude Käsebier's work is not known for nudes, she has taken at least two photos of undressed women. One photograph entitled "The Bat", from 1902 to 1904, depicts Jane White, wife of photographer Clarence Hudson White .

literature

  • Barbara L. Michaels: Gertrude Kasebier: The Photographer and Her Photographs . Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York 1992, ISBN 0-8109-3505-8 .
  • Boris Friedewald : Gertrude Käsebier . In: Boris Friedewald: Masters of Light - Great Women Photographers from Two Centuries . Prestel, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7913-4673-1 , pp. 102-107

Web links

Commons : Gertrude Käsebier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Käsebier, Gertude Stanton ( memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), iphf.org, accessed on November 9, 2013
  2. ↑ Christopher Hudson (Ed.): Masterpieces in the J. Paul Getty Museum . The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 1999, ISBN 0-89236-523-4 , p. 66
  3. ^ Walter Koschatzky: The art of photography. Technology, history, masterpieces . dtv, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-7010-0386-6 , p. 154
  4. ↑ Judith Fryer Davivdov: Women's camerawork: self / body / Other in American Visual Culture . Duke University Press, Durham, New York 1998, p. 52
personal data
SURNAME Cheese beer, Gertrude
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stanton, Gertrude (maiden name); Kasebier, Gertrude Stanton (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Des Moines
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1934
Place of death New York City