The sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736-1783) is one of the most interesting figures in central European 18th-century art. Even his earliest works were surprising in their professional maturity, impeccable sove ...click for details

An album of 75 cigarette cards featuring images from Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen was issued in Stuttgar ...click for details

Hugo Erfurth (1874-1948) ...click for details

Gelatin silver print, press photo, 1970s
8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Stamped verso BFI (British Film Institute, London)

Berlin Cigaretten Bilderdienst Altona-Bahrenfeld, 1935. Book with glued in black and white photographs of famous film stars of Germany. Bound in stiff blue wraps with a pictorial cover. With 136 pages and 200 tipped in photographs. The photos are extremely clear and sharp. With original c ...click for details

Vintage silver print
Verso with atelier stamp
Good condition ...click for details

Original photographic duotone print with wide margins. Internegative copyright registration (Fritz Lang), identification of publisher. Underscored in margin: "Metropolis". Single card from a series produced in the year of release of Lang's classic futuristic Expressionist film. Pristine and unused condition, Grade I. ...click for details

Published in 1935 as part of a series of German cigarette cards - Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst, Der Stumme Film (The Making of German Ci ...click for details

Fantastic volume on Molinier's compelling and obsessive photography - fetishist images of transgendered figures in dark boudoir settings. Great collection of his work, with many ...click for details