Erwin Steiner Text (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Quarto, un paginated (90 pages), illustrated throughout in black and white + 5 color plates. Typographic wrappers. - First edition. Exhibition from January 11 ? 29, 1978. This exhibition was shown in 1977 and in a different format as part of the II. International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg am Wechsel, Lower Austria. Contributions by Marc Adrian, Walter Angerer, Joannis Avramidis, Waltraud Cooper, Roland Goeschl, Hans Florey, Walter Kaitna, Kurt Kren, H.J. Painitz, Josef Pillhofer, Thomas Reinhold, Hermann Stiegler and Peter Weibel. …

Hard back binding in publisher's original Farrows cream cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front. 4to. 13'' x 9¼''. Contains 1 pp, 3 pp introduction followed by 28 splendid full-page single-sided duo-tone landscape photographs taken in the Engadine, where renown Swiss photographer Albert Steiner lived and worked for 46 years. Special presentation copy presented by St. Moritz on the occasion of the International Alpine Trial 1932 with additional presentation leaf in German, French, English and Italian dated July 1932 to this effect. Small repair to the centre of the lower spine edge, very minor spotting to the end papers, plates in fresh clean condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. SWITZERLAND (Culture).…

Hardcover. Condition: g to vg. First edition. Folio (13 x 9 1/2"). [8]pp (Text), 28 leaves (Photographs). Original tan cloth, with embossed lettering on gilt to front cover and spine. Splendid collection of 28 landscape photographs taken in the Engadine, where renown Swiss photographer Albert Steiner* lived and worked for 46 years. The photographs are reproduced in striking duo-tone photogravures, thus highlighting the reliefs and contrasts of this beautiful Alpine valley region of Switzerland. Tiny abrasion and moderate bumping to spine (not affecting pages throughout). Pages slightly and evenly age-toned. Text in German. Binding in overall good to good+, interior in very good condition. * Albert Steiner (1877-1965) is one of Switzerland's outstanding 20th century photographers. "His landscape photographs taken in the Engadine, where he lived and worked for 46 years, are unique on an international as well as a national level. They have had a major influence on an awareness of Switzerland as an unspoiled alpine country of surpassing beauty. Inspired by painters such as Giovanni Segantini and Ferdinand Hodler, Steiner took pictures that reveal a profound respect for and love of nature, as well as a tireless search for timeless beauty and metaphysical truth. His meticulously structured, light-saturated compositions are expressive witnesses of his experience of human insignificance in the face of the greatness and sublimity of the mountain world." (For more information, see: Albert Steiner. Das fotografische Werk. Edited by Peter Pfrunder and Beat Stutzer, with contributions by Anne Hammond, René Perret, Peter Pfrunder, Beat Stutzer and Hans Peter Treichler. Benteli Verlag, Bern.).…

4°, 62 S. m. 72 (Text-)Abb. (tlw. a. Taf.), 24 Bl. Anzeigen, Brosch. m. farb. Deckelill., Umschlag min. unfrisch u. am Kopf geleimt, Innendeckel u. 1. Anzeigenbl. min. stockfl., innen sonst tadellos; sehr gutes Ex. EA. Der Umschlag nach Augusto Giacometti, 27 Fotos von Albert Steiner (sonstige von J. Feuerstein, Meerkämper, Davos u. a.). - «Albert Steiner (1877 - 1965, Schulen in Thun. Abgebrochene Bäckerlehre im väterlichen Betrieb 1892. Fotografenlehre bei Jean Moeglé in Thun 1892 bis ca. 1897. Unterbruch der Lehre, Arbeit in der Munitionsfabrik Thun 1895. Anstellung bei Frédéric Boissonnas in Genf ca. 1897. Nach dem Tod des Vaters 1898 leitet Steiner die Bäckerei bis 1901. Rückkehr zu Frédéric Boissonnas 1901-1904, anschliessend eigenes Fotostudio in Genf. Angestellter des Fotografen Walther Küpfer in St. Moritz 1906-1909, danach selbständig. Entdeckung der Engadiner Landschaft. Im Ersten Weltkrieg Dienst als Fotograf und Festungspionier, Kriegsgefangenschaft in Italien 1917. Studio für Porträtfotografie mit einem Compagnon 1915 bis ca. 1919. Eröffnung eines eigenen Ateliers 1924. Übergabe des Geschäfts an Sohn Hans 1950, Rückkehr nach Frutigen. Die Porträt- und Landschaftsaufnahmen, die Steiner zum Teil über seinen Postkartenverlag vertrieb, machten ihn weltbekannt» (Schweizer Fotostiftung). 1200 gr. Schlagworte: Photographie, Helvetica - Graubünden.…