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Padhi Frieberger (1931 – 2016)
Untitled (Ingeborg and Jawo), Vienna, Simmeringer Hauptstraße 130, ca. 1965
From the series »Huik's Caps«
Item number 063-00235
Padhi Frieberger used pictorial-sculptural as well as performative and linguistic means for his art, often using everyday objects, newspaper clippings and other found objects. In the medium of photography, he combined his interests in elaborate stagings and created an extensive body of work that has not yet been sufficiently researched. This photograph is from a series he took near his Vienna studio on Simmeringer Hauptstraße. The models were his nephew Jawo, who wears a chain of apples around his neck, and his partner Ingeborg Schneider, whom Frieberger called »Huik«.
The title of the series »Huik's Caps« refers to the peaked hats that Ingeborg sewed for Padhi and which were his trademark for a while – until Friedensreich Hundertwasser also began to constantly wear such caps and thus eventually became much reknown internationally than Frieberger, who largely avoided the art world and its mechanisms.
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Gelatin silver print, print date: 1980s
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Image dimensions 29,8 x 26,8 cm (29,8 x 26,8 inch)
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Object dimensions 37 x 26,8 cm (37 x 26,8 inch)
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Condition
Double-weight matte baryta paper, in very good condition -
Annotations
With certificate of authenticity and provenance from the artist's estate -
Prints / Fotokulturerbe Österreichs / Inszenierte Fotografie / Kind / Kunst /