portfolio 1

Werner Mantz
10 Photographs 1927–1935

Portfolio 1977

WERNER MANTZ (1901–1983)

Bridge, Cologne, 1927

gelatin silver print, printed 1980

17 x 22,5 cm

© Galerie Kicken & Schürmann, Aachen, 1977 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

WERNER MANTZ (1901–1983)

Title of WDR–Radio Program, Cologne, 1928

gelatin silver print, printed 1977

22,4 x 16,6 cm

© Galerie Kicken & Schürmann, Aachen, 1977 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

WERNER MANTZ (1901–1983)

Advertisement for pavement stones, Cologne, 1928

gelatin silver print, printed 1977

22 x 16,6 cm

© Galerie Kicken & Schürmann, Aachen, 1977 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

WERNER MANTZ (1901–1983)

Detail Kalkerfeld settlement, Cologne, 1928

gelatin silver print, printed 1977

22,7 x 16,7 cm

© Galerie Kicken & Schürmann, Aachen, 1977 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

WERNER MANTZ (1901–1983)

Staircase Ursuliner Lyzeum, Cologne, 1928

gelatin silver print, printed 1977

22 x 15,6 cm

© Galerie Kicken & Schürmann, Aachen, 1977 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

WERNER MANTZ (1901–1983)

Detail Kalkerfeld settlement, Cologne, 1928

gelatin silver print, printed 1977

22 x 12,8 cm

© Galerie Kicken & Schürmann, Aachen, 1977 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

WERNER MANTZ (1901–1983)

Interior, Cologne, 1928

gelatin silver print, printed 1977

17 x 21,5 cm

© Galerie Kicken & Schürmann, Aachen, 1977 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

WERNER MANTZ (1901–1983)

Sinn-Department Store, Gelsenkirchen, 1928

gelatin silver print, printed 1977

22 x 17 cm

© Galerie Kicken & Schürmann, Aachen, 1977 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

WERNER MANTZ (1901–1983)

Kölnische Zeitung, Pressa, Cologne, 1928

gelatin silver print, printed 1977

16,5 x 21,5 cm

© Galerie Kicken & Schürmann, Aachen, 1977 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

WERNER MANTZ (1901–1983)

Communion bench, Kerenheide, 1935

gelatin silver print, printed 1977

22,5 x 17 cm

© Galerie Kicken & Schürmann, Aachen, 1977 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

 

Biography
1901 born in Cologne, Germany. 1915 first contact with photography. 1920–1921 education as photographer. At the "Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt" in Munich with Professor Spörl and Professor Lähnemann. 1926 starting to work as an achitectural photographer for the architects Lüttgen, Riphahn, Schumacher, and Reitz. Visually influenced by Eisenstein's film "Battle-cruiser Potemkin". Member of the "Vereinigung Kölner Fachphotographen". 1932 moved to Maastricht, Holland, to open a studio with his friend Karl Mergenaum. Worked as a photographer, mostly portraits, until 1971. Died in 1983.

The portfolio contains ten original photographs signed by Werner Mantz. It is published in a limited edition of twenty-Five numbered copies and ten artist's proofs in Roman numerals. The photographs were processed to archival standard, and printed on Agfa-Gevaert paper, Portriga Rapid 111, under the supervision of Werner Mantz. Published in 1977.

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