GEORGE HOYNINGEN-HUENE
Erna Carise
1930
Platinum Palladium Print
27 + 3 AP
Paper size: 61 x 50.8 cm | Image size: 50.5 x 35 cm
Embossed recto, Estate stamped, titled, numbered and signed by R. J. Horst verso.
included and issued by the George Hoyningen-Huene Estate Archives
In this virtuosic example of Huene’s skill with lighting, the lithe form of Austrian dancer Erna Carise is repeated and enlarged in silhouette. Carise was born Erni Kaiser in 1906 in Vienna and she found fame in the 1920s starring with Josephine Baker in the Folies Bergère show Un Vent de Folies.
George Hoyningen-Huene Estate Archives / 29 ARTS IN PROGRESS gallery