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7290 - Beckmann, Otto
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Beckmann, Otto Architectural Project by the Sea; Illustration 32 for Song 57 2 sheets of color photographs (hand prints) on photographic paper. 1980/81. 30 x 40.5 and 40.5 x 30 cm, respectively. Both signed “Otto Beckmann”; one sheet bears the artist’s Vienna address stamp on the reverse. Beckmann called his 1980 series of virtual architectural objects, which he placed within a real landscape, “Metropolis 2080”; one of the sheets comes from this series. The other is an experimental photograph (Beckmann called the technique “Cinematrix”) taken in polarized light and is a graphic interpretation of the song “Ain mensch von achtzehen jaren klüg” by Oswald von Wolkenstein. We thank Irene and Albert Beckmann, Otto Beckmann Archive, Sollenau, for their kind information provided on October 16, 2026. - Please request condition reports for the lots, as the condition is usually not listed in the catalog. - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalog.
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