"Sao Francisco de Xavier"
Brazil
pigment-based inkjet print
artist stamp on verso, signed on cover sheet
The clarity of the gaze, shown by Struth, who leaves the object as an object and finds its artistic strength in the "non-design", can be achieved not only by outstanding artists such as Struth, but also by so-called "lateral entrants": Already Dr. Gregor Krause, a trained physician who had spent a long time of his life in Southeast Asia and who, in addition to photo series about natives and monkey populations, had also photographed the jungle (1926! ), as well as the trained photographer Otto Schmidt, who in his portfolio "Studienblätter für Künstler" (Study Sheets for Artists) did not always follow his customary ways of seeing, but was led by an unpretentious gaze that depicted the object in a "pure" manner (1893!), especially in his studies of nature, achieved this 111 years before Struth.
(Fritz Simak, 2011)
S-1218, Front view
© Thomas Struth / Bildrecht, Wien
S-1218, Back view
S-1218, Vgl. Gregor Krause, „Urwaldbild IX“ aus der Mappe Borneo II, 1926, Heliogravur, Sammlung Simak 1578
S-1218, Vlg. Otto Schmidt, „19. Huflattich“ aus der Mappe Studienblätter für Künstler, 1893, Sammlung Simak 1182.
© Thomas Struth / Bildrecht, Wien