Professor Vogel

1886, printed 1895/1896

Alfred Stieglitz

Associated Names
Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    platinum print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 11.7 × 8.8 cm (4 5/8 × 3 7/16 in.)
    page size: 34.8 × 27 cm (13 11/16 × 10 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.3.26

  • Volume Title

    Sun Prints, 2

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    72E

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    1

Associated Artworks

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The image shows a woman standing in a grassy field with one hand on her forehead and holding a rake in the other hand. She is wearing a long-sleeved blouse, a long skirt, and an apron tied around her waist. She has a solemn expression on her face and her hair is pulled back. The background includes rolling hills, trees, and a path leading off into the distance. No jewelry or additional objects can be seen.

The Harvest, Mittenwald

Alfred Stieglitz

1886

The image depicts two individuals: a woman and a child. The woman is standing in a doorway with one hand on the door frame, wearing a long light-colored dress with long sleeves and a braided hairstyle. The child, barefoot and wearing high socks, short pants with suspenders, a light shirt, a jacket, and a brimmed hat, stands beside her leaning against the door frame. A wooden structure resembling a barrel on a stand is on the right, with a plain wall forming the backdrop.

The Truant, Mittenwald

Alfred Stieglitz

1886

The image is a sketch of a profile view of a person's head and neck facing left. The person has delicate facial features, with a straight nose, downturned lips, and closed eyes. The person's hair is styled elaborately with swirls and curls. The sketch is in a soft sepia tone. The background is a plain textured surface, and there are no objects or scenery in the image.

From a Lenbach Sketch

Alfred Stieglitz

1886

The image shows a man leaning his head on his hand, positioned with his face resting on his left hand. He has a mustache, thin-framed eyeglasses, and thick, greying hair that curls slightly at the edges. He is dressed in a formal jacket, a white shirt, and a black bow tie. The background is a soft, dark blur.

Alfred Stieglitz

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2002

  • Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 2–September 2, 2002; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 6, 2002–January 5, 2003

Bibliography

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 1.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, lower right, in graphite: Prof. Vogel / 1886

Wikidata ID

Q64037703

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

A highly respected photographic chemist and professor of chemistry and metallurgy at the Königliche Technische Hochschule in Berlin, Hermann Wilhelm Vogel discovered how to make photographic plates sensitive to the full spectrum of light. Stieglitz, who was enrolled at the Technische Hochschule from 1882 to 1886, studied with Vogel whose lectures and publications challenged the young photographer to make some of his most accomplished early work and provided him with an excellent grounding in the chemistry, optics, and techniques of photography.

Other Collections

A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):

Location unknown [platinum]

Lifetime Exhibitions

A print from the same negative—perhaps a photograph from the Gallery’s collection—appeared in the following exhibition(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:

1891, Hartford (no. 77, as Prof. Vogel (of Vienna))
1891, New York, Fourth Annual Joint Exhibition (no. 308, as Prof. Vogel, platinotype, silver medal)
1891, Glasgow (no. 145, as Professor Vogel, platinotype)
1891, New York, Society of Amateur Photographers (no. 225, as Prof. Vogel, platinotype)
1892, New York, The Society of Amateur Photographers of New York (as Professor Vogel, lantern slide)
1892, Boston (no. 316, as Prof. Vogel)
1900, Newark, Ohio (no. 169, as Portrait of Professor V., 1886)

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