L a - b e a u t é - s a u v e r a - l e - m o n d e ~ D o s t o ï e v s k i

L a - b e a u t é - s a u v e r a - l e - m o n d e  ~  D o s t o ï e v s k i



Showing posts with label Herbert List. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Herbert List. Show all posts

Friday, March 11, 2022

The antique and the eternal - three photographs by Herbert List


Youth and Roman bust, 1949. (Two images.)
Young man with laurel over the eyes, 1936.

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The model in the first two photographs was Swiss painter and ceramicist Rolf Dürig (25 April 1926 - 13 June 1985). Below are four of his paintings.

Garten in Bern, 1946.
Stillleben mit Artischocken, Kirschen, und Blumen in Vase, 1980.
Mahaweli - Ganga, 1964.
Stillleben mit Blumen, Obst, und Eidechse, 1982.




Friday, December 27, 2019

North Sea, 1934 - two photographs by Herbert List



"The pictures I took spontaneously… were often more powerful than those I had painstakingly composed” - Herbert List