Cora Pongracz (1943 – 2003)
Otto Breicha, Franz Ringel and Walter Navratil at Café »Giradi«, Vienna, 1971
From the edition »Austrian Avant-Garde in the 1970s«
Limited edition of 5
A scene in a Viennese coffee house on Girardigasse, near the Naschmarkt. In the background are the painters Walter Navratil and Franz Ringel, in front of them stands the graphic artist Gerri Zotter, and at the table in the foreground sits Otto Breicha (1932–2003), eating his soup and looking into the camera. The German scholar and art historian was an early apologist of photography, who also took numerous portraits himself. As a museum director in Salzburg he built up an Austrian photo collection from 1980. Cora Pongracz took the image in the course of her work on the photo book »Martha Jungwirth – Franz Ringel«, in which she circles the living and working environment of the two artists.
Gelatin silver print from the original negative, print date: 2015
Image dimensions 30 x 45 cm (30 x 45 inch)
Mounting, Framing Archival mat board 50 x 65 cm and frame on request
Condition
Double weight baryta, semi-matte surface
Annotations
Estate stamp »Nachlass Cora Pongracz © OstLicht« with edition number in pencil on the reverse
Literature
M. Röbl, P. Coeln (ed.), Cora Pongracz. Das fotografische Werk, Vienna 2016, p. 101.
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