FRANZ HUBMANN (1914–2007) École de Paris - A comprehensive collection of 215 photographs containing his most famous artist portraits, Paris 1950s

215 gelatin silver prints (211 images by Hubmann), printed in the late 1960s sizes vary, small format prints, majority c. 12 x 8 or 8 x 8 cm The prints were used as storyboard for Hubmann's movie École de Paris - Der Parnass der Kunst, which was featured in Austrian TV in 1970, they are mounted on loose paper sheets (A4 size), each photo series is accompanied by very personal typographic notes, some written directly on the paper, some on mounted labels, the notes were written by Hubmann, telling his very personal stories of his meetings with the depicted artists, the sheets also show Hubmann's handwritten notes and adjustments in pencil and ink LITERATURE Franz Hubmann, Pariser Parnass. Fotos zur französischen Kunstszene der fünfziger Jahre, Graz 1970. PROVENANCE Private Collection Vienna List of photographs (number of prints): Pablo Picasso (36), Marc Chagall (23), Le Corbusier (12), Hans Arp (3), Alberto Giacometti (1), Georges Braque (3), Bernard Buffet (8), K. R. H. Sonderborg (17), Georges Henri Adam, (18), Zao Wou-Ki (11), Jean Tinguely (4) (not by Hubmann), Alfred Manesier (7), Hans Hartung (7), Marcel Gromaire (7), Alberto Magnelli (7), Antoine Pevsner (9), Ossip Zadkine (20), Léopold Survage (10), Serge Charchoune and Max Ernst (8), Sonja Delaunay (1), Wassily Kandinsky (2), Frank Kupka (1)