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ALBERT STEINER

Albert Steiner (1877-1965) is one of Switzerland's outstanding 20th century photographers. His landscape photographs taken in the Engadine, where he lived and worked for 46 years, are unique on an international as well as a national level. They have had a major influence on an awareness of Switzerland as an unspoiled alpine country of surpassing beauty. Inspired by painters such as Giovanni Segantini and Ferdinand Hodler, Steiner took pictures that reveal a profound respect for and love of nature, as well as a tireless search for timeless beauty and metaphysical truth. His meticulously structured, light-saturated compositions are expressive witnesses of his experience of human insignificance in the face of the greatness and sublimity of the mountain world. Surprisingly, up till now Steiner's work has not been accorded the appreciation it deserves. (www.fotostiftung.ch)

albert steiner

Albert Steiner

Uber den St. Moritzersee, 1930s

Vintage gelatin silver print
Mounted, signed and titled on mat recto.

Albert Steiner

St. Moritz, 1930s

Vintage gelatin silver print
Mounted, signed and titled on mat recto.
17 x 23 cm

Albert Steiner St. Moritz

Albert Steiner

Am St. Moritzersee mit St. Moritz-Bad, 1930s

Vintage gelatin silver print
Photographer's stamp on print verso
17 x 23 cm

Albert Steiner

Albert Steiner

Der Hahnensee, Blick gegen Piz Polaschin, 1930s

Vintage gelatin silver print
Photographer's stamp on print verso
17 x 23 cm

albert steiner

Albert Steiner

Berner Oberland, Lenk i. S., Blicktalauswärts gegen Lenk, 1940s

Vintage gelatin silver print
Underwood & Underwood, 3 West 46th New York stamp, photographer's stamp on print verso
23 X 16 cm

albert steiner

Albert Steiner

Novembertag am Stmoritzersee, 1930s

Vintage gelatin silver print
Mounted on paper and mat board,
signed and titled on mat recto.
23 x 16 cm


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Publication: Albert Steiner. Das fotografische Werk. Edited by Peter Pfrunder and Beat Stutzer, with contributions by Anne Hammond, René Perret, Peter Pfrunder, Beat Stutzer and Hans Peter Treichler. 240 pages, 198 illustrations. Benteli Verlag, Bern.