<i>Bewegungsstudie</i> (<i>Movement Study</i>, in German), 1925, black and white photograph by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Koppitz" class="extiw" title="en:Rudolf Koppitz">Rudolf Koppitz</a> (1884-1936). Gelatin silver print on carte-postale, printed c. 1930.
<p>In 1925 Koppitz created his masterpiece, <i>Bewegungsstudie</i>, in which he photographed the nude dancer, credited to be the Russian Claudia Issatschenko, but who is more likely the daughter of this woman, ballet dancer and choreographer, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatjana_Gsovsky" class="extiw" title="en:Tatjana Gsovsky">Tatyana Issatschenko Gsovsky</a>, with her head thrown dramatically back and flanked by three dark-robed women, lends <i>Bewegungsstudie</i> to the highly decorative and symbolist tradition of the Viennese Jugendstil.
Photographer's blind stamp (margin); photographer's <i>Prof. R. Koppitz, Photo-Werkstätte</i> address and copyright credits in print, numbered '1' with various annotations in pencil (verso). Image: 4 1/8 x 3 3/4 in. (13 x 9.4 cm.). Sheet: 5 x 4 in. (15.2 x 10 cm.).
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Provenance: Private Collection, New York; with Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York; with Galerie Kicken, Berlin; Katrina Doerner Photographs, New York, 2011.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Rudolf_Koppitz" class="extiw" title="w:en:Rudolf Koppitz"><span title="Austrian photographer">Rudolf Koppitz</span></a>
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