Pissenlit en fleur
1932
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 23.1 x 28.1 cm (9 1/8 x 11 1/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
René Huyghe Collection
Accession Number
2001.1.17
Art Historical Context
Raoul Hausmann's *Pissenlit en fleur* (Dandelion in Flower), created in 1932, the delicate beauty of a blooming dandelion in exquisite detail. This gelatin silver print, a hallmark medium of 20th-century photography prized for its sharp clarity and rich tonal range, measures 23.1 x 28.1 cm and invites viewers to marvel at nature's intricate forms up close. Hausmann, a pioneering Austrian artist associated with Berlin Dada in the 1910s and 1920s, shifted toward more contemplative subjects like flora in the interwar years, reflecting a personal exploration amid Europe's turbulent times. Printed...