Lot 1167 | Otto Steinert | Nobelpreisträger und Mitglieder des Ordens "Pour le Mérite"

STEINERT, OTTO
1915 Saarbrücken - 1978 Essen

Title: Nobelpreisträger und Mitglieder des Ordens "Pour le Mérite".
Subtitle: Series of 14 photographs.
Date: 1961/62.
Each: Gelatin silver print. From 36.5 x 29cm to 39 x 29cm. Two of the prints larger
format: 51 x 37cm (Schramm) resp. 53.5 x 40cm (Hertz). Each mounted on card (44 x 33cm
resp. 65 x 55cm). Partly signed and dated. Verso each inscribed. Frame: Framed.

The following prize winners were portrayed here by Otto Steinert:

Richard Kuhn (chemist); Gerhard Domagk (pathologist and bacteriologist); Werner Forßmann (physician); Theodor Litt (educationalist and philosopher); Gerhard Ritter (historian); Max Born (physicist); Percy Ernst Schramm (historian); Erich Haenisch (sinologist); Eduard Spranger (philosopher, educationalist and psychologist); Hans Kienle (astronomer and astrophysicist); Hermann Staudinger (chemist); Otto Warburg (physiologist and chemist); Werner Heisenberg (physicist and astrophysicist); Gustav Hertz (physicist).

Another complete set is in the possession of the photographic collection of the Museum Folkwang, which looks after the artist's estate. Thus we can also offer the complete photographic series here.

Exhibitions:
- Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen 2005/06

Literature:
- Heil, Axel/Schoppmann, Wolfgang/Museum Morsbroich (eds.): YES,YES,YES,YES - Differenz und Wiederholung in Bildern der Sammlung Olbricht, Heidelberg 2006, p. 180 - 187, ill.