Herbert List GREECE. Cyclades. Santorini (Santorin) Island. 1937. Goldfish bowl. "The captive fish in its bowl and the open sea symbolize man who, being tied to earth, can never quite break free from matter, an (...)
d who, while having intimations of a sublime world, is yet unable to immerse himself in it because he is trapped in his body". Herbert List. © Herbert List | Magnum Photos
Herbert List AUSTRIA. Vienna. "Trepanation". (skull operation)
From the photo-essay on "Praüscher's Panoptikum" at the Prater. A grotesque chamber of horrors dating from 1870, it contained wax figures of hist (...)
orical personages, inventions, events, crimes, illnesses, and anatomical depictions. It was already banned at this time, and by the end of the war had been pretty much demolished by the SS.
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Herbert List AUSTRIA. Vienna. "Transplantation".
From the photo-essay on "Praüscher's Panoptikum" at the Prater. A grotesque chamber of horrors dating from 1870, it contained wax figures of historical persona (...)
ges, inventions, events, crimes, illenesses, and anatomical depictions. It was already banned at this time, and by the end of the war had been pretty much demolished by the SS.
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Herbert List AUSTRIA. Vienna. 1944.
From the photo-essay on "Praüscher's Panoptikum" at the Prater. A grotesque chamber of horrors dating from 1870, it contained wax figures of historical personages, invention (...)
s, events, crimes, illenesses, and anatomical depictions. It was already banned at this time, and by the end of the war had been pretty much demolished by the SS. © Herbert List | Magnum Photos
Herbert List GERMANY. Munich. Circa 1949.
During the rebuilding of the Technical University.
Hermann Hahn's "Rosseführer" (Man Leading Horse) has already been re-erected, whereas Bernhard Bleeker's is still o (...)
n the ground.
(List noted 1952 on the back of print, which is unlikely since the rebuilding of the institution should have been further along by then )
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Herbert List GERMANY. Munich. In the devasted Academy of Arts' storeroom. Plaster-cast group. Winter 1945-46. The upright
The figural group on the left is probably a design for a large motorway monument by Jo (...)
sef Thorak, who, as Academy lecturer, had an atelier here. The seated figure in the middle is a plaster cast of the seated Hermes of the Herculaneum with an aries-relief from the school of German artist Adolph Hildebrand.
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Herbert List GREECE. Athens. 1937. "Marble statue from Antikythera I".
This and other sculptures were taken from the Aegean by fishermen near Antikythera. List photographed them in the courtyard of the Nation (...)
al Museum.
The photograph was first reproduced in "Verve" (March-June 1938).
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Herbert List Edouard DERMIT in front of COCTEAU's pastel drawing "Judith et Holopherne".
France. Milly-la-Forêt. 1948.
Photographed in Cocteau's country house, Edouard DERMIT ("Doudou"), Cocteau's friend, b (...)
ecame an actor, starred in some of Cocteau films, and was later his heir.
The drawing is at the Severin Wunderman Museum in Menton, France, and was made into a tapestry in 1951.
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Herbert List FRANCE. PARIS. SPANISH artist Joan MIRÓ at Mourlot Studios checks printing of lithograph plate 7 for his Album 13 published by Maeght Editeur. 1948.
In 1948–49 Miró lived in Barcelona and made fre (...)
quent visits to Paris to work on printing techniques at the Mourlot Studios. He developed a close relationship with Fernand Mourlot and that resulted in the production of over one thousand different lithographic editions.
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Herbert List ITALY. Naples. Benedetto CROCE in his study. 1949.
The philosopher, historian, politician is one of the intellectual leaders of Italy during the first half of the century. As Minister of Educatio (...)
n and later leader of the Liberal Party, he vigorously opposed the Fascist regime during the 1940's.
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Herbert List ITALY. Rome. Trastevere. Proud Father with mano cornuta: A young man is holding two babies while two women are making fun of him and signal that he might not be the father. This use of le corna or (...)
mano cornuta refers to a husband who has been betrayed by his wife. 1953.
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