Austrian, 1884 – 1936
Koppitz taught photography for 20 years at the famed Graphischen Lehrund Versuchsanstalt in Vienna. His pictorialist nude studies, portraits, and landscapes are rendered with beautiful tonal values inherent to gum-bichromate, bromoil, and bromoil transfer process.
He work is known for its delicate and sensual rendering of the the human form, as seen in his iconic Bewegungsstudie (motion study). Through his darkroom virtuosity he created prints that had an exceptional object quality; beautifully grainy, subtly tinted images that aligned the artist with the work of American Pictorialists such as Edward Steichen and Clarence White. His mastery of process: pigment, carbon, gum, and bromoil transfer gained him the respect of his colleagues world wide.
His work was shown in the important Pittsburgh Salons of 1926, 1927, and 1928 at the Carnegie Museum of Art and featured in important photography publications of that era, including: American Photography, Photo-Era, and Camera Craft.
His photographs are in the collections of many prominent museums both here and abroad, including: the Smithsonian Museum, George Eastman Museum, Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Koppitz taught photography for 20 years at the famed Graphischen Lehrund Versuchsanstalt in Vienna. His pictorialist nude studies, portraits, and landscapes are rendered with beautiful tonal values inherent to gum-bichromate, bromoil, and bromoil transfer process.
He work is known for its delicate and sensual rendering of the the human form, as seen in his iconic Bewegungsstudie (motion study). Through his darkroom virtuosity he created prints that had an exceptional object quality; beautifully grainy, subtly tinted images that aligned the artist with the work of American Pictorialists such as Edward Steichen and Clarence White. His mastery of process: pigment, carbon, gum, and bromoil transfer gained him the respect of his colleagues world wide.
His work was shown in the important Pittsburgh Salons of 1926, 1927, and 1928 at the Carnegie Museum of Art and featured in important photography publications of that era, including: American Photography, Photo-Era, and Camera Craft.
His photographs are in the collections of many prominent museums both here and abroad, including: the Smithsonian Museum, George Eastman Museum, Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Victoria and Albert Museum.