id:			165100
accession number:	2007.111
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2007.111
updated:		2020-01-24 09:00:49.422000

Nude in Light, 1925. Franz Roh (German, 1890-1965). Gelatin silver print, montage; image: 14.5 x 21.2 cm (5 11/16 x 8 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2007.111

title:				Nude in Light
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creation date:			1925
creation date earliest:		1925
creation date latest:		1925
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Germany, 20th century
technique:	gelatin silver print, montage
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - German 20th Century
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Franz Roh (German, 1890-1965)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 14.5 x 21.2 cm (5 11/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy
	opening date:   2004-09-14T04:00:00
	<i>Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy</i>. Palmer Museum of Art (September 14-December 5, 2004); McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, MA (January 16-March 27, 2005); Crocker Art Museum, Sacaramento, CA (July 9-September 11, 2005); Portland Museum of Art (January 1-March 19, 2006).

	title:		Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography
	opening date:   2014-10-19T00:00:00
	<i>Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

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An example of montage, this image was produced by stacking several negatives together and printing through the sandwich. Roh experimented freely with different techniques to obtain the widest range of psychological expression. He described the technique of photomontage: "from simple fragments of reality, a more complex unit is piled up." This process, he believed, was "based on a deep need of human imagination."
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E. Hinson, Ian Walker, and Lisa Kurzner. Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography : the David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2014.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 60; mentioned p. 61; reproduced and mentioned: p. 233.
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	Schaffner, Ingrid, Julien Levy, and Colin Westerbeck. Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy. Pasadena, Calif: Curatorial Assistance, Inc, 2004.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 77; mentioned p. 124.
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