Vintage gelatin silver print on Leonar paper
Yugoslavia, Zagreb, circa 1960s
Toni Schneiders (1920-2006) – German photographer
Verso inscribed in pencil and with Toni Schneiders’s archive stamp
Image size: 24.4 x 30.1 cm
Very good condition
High-contrast shot by Toni Schneiders, one of the most important German photographers after 1945; his works fetch over €5,800 on the international auction market

Toni Schneiders took the present photograph from an unusual angle. It depicts a bustling train platform in bird's eye view. The people appear like small figures from a distance, casting long shadows, which creates an interesting play of light. As a representative of the ‘Neues Sehen’ (New Seeing), his oeuvre occupies a sphere between photojournalism and abstracted realism. Nature has been a recurring theme in Schneiders’s work. In addition, he created portraits and photographs of motifs that he found in the reality surrounding him.

The photograph is inscribed in pencil on verso, further it bears Toni Schneiders’s archive stamp. The print is in very good condition consistent with age; there are some inconspicuous handling creases, the corners show some wear. The sheet-sized image measures 24.4 x 30.1 cm.

Toni Schneiders (1920-2006)

In 1939 Toni Schneiders finished an apprenticeship as a photographer. During World War II he worked in the photocopying service of the army and from 1942 he was a war correspondent in France and Italy. Here he created impressive shots of Mussolini’s liberation on the mountain massif of Gran Sasso. After the war Schneiders returned to Germany and created photo essays, advertising and travel photographs. He opened a photography studio and worked as a freelance photojournalist. In 1949 he co-founded the avant-garde group ‘fotoform’ together with Otto Steinert, Peter Keetman, Siegfried Lauterwasser, Wolfgang Reisewitz und Ludwig Windstoßer. From the 1950s onwards he undertook extensive travels to Southern Europe, Scandinavia, Ethiopia, North Africa, Japan and Southeast Asia. In 1999 Toni Schneiders was awarded the ‘Kulturpreis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Photographie‘ along with Lauterwasser and Reisewitz. (tfa)

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