Betty Siebauer

Portrait of Fidus, Looking Toward the Light

circa 1914-1919

gelatin silver photograph on photo paper, mounted on beige cardboard

22 x 16,5 cm

with the photographer's blind stamp "Betty Siebauer" lower right

with the photographer's stamp on the reverse of the cardboard

The Daulton Collection

Large format photography by Betty Siebauer, Berlin-Charlottenburg, Waitzstraße 9.

"With bright eyes and a calm, relaxed expression, his head slightly raised, the artist looks up towards the light - a programmatic expression for the light seeker Fidus."  B

Betty Siebauer

Portrait of Fidus, in Contemplation

circa 1914-1919

gelatin silver photograph on photographic paper, mounted on grey cardboard

21,7 x 16,3 cm (8.5 x 6.3 in.)

with the photographer's blind stamp "Betty Siebauer" lower right

The Daulton Collection

Publication History:

Georg Förster, Meister Fidus, Freund und Führer, zum 70. Geburtstag des Meisters (Dresden: Verlag "Vegetarische Presse," 1938), ill. pg. 4.

Discussion:

Large format photography by Betty Siebauer, Berlin-Charlottenburg, Waitzstraße 9.

"The artist sits cross-legged, facing left, much like Auguste Rodin's ‘The Thinker,’ his chin in his right hand in the famous pose, ‘whose brooding look meanwhile already betrays his higher-flying temple dreams’ (Frecot/Geist/Kerbs, p. 215)."  B

Betty Siebauer

Portrait of Fidus, in Profile to the Left

circa 1918

gelatin silver photograph on photographic paper, mounted on grey cardboard

22 x 16 cm

with the photographer's blind stamp "Betty Siebauer" lower right

The Daulton Collection

Publication History:

Dr. Egbert Delpy, “Hugo Höppener (Fidus), zu seinem fünfzigsten Geburtstag am 8. Oktober,” Illustrierte Zeitung (Leipzig: Verlag J. J. Weber), Nr. 3926 (Kriegsnr. 217), 1918, ill. at pg. 333.

Discussion:

"Photographs hardly ever show the artist in the high-necked shirt with tie; only in the wedding photo with his second wife Elsbet from October 1922 (Wolfgang de Bruyn, ed., Fidus. Künstler alles Lichtbaren, Berlin 1998, p. 12, fig. 13) does he appear dressed in the same way, with a white shirt and the dark tie."  B