Wanda Wulz

Wanda Wulz (* 1903 in Trieste, † 1984 ibid ) was an Italian photographer who was associated with the art movement Futurism loose.

Life and work

Wanda Wulz learned portrait photography from her father and her grandfather Giuseppe Carlo Wulz, who in 1868 opened a photo studio in Trieste. After the death of her father in 1928 took Wanda and her sister Marion, the prestigious studio, which allowed them the freedom to work experimentally in addition to portrait photography for Trieste artists and aristocrats.

In 1932, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the founder of Italian Futurism, attentive to the avant-garde works by Wanda Wulz. For the exhibition of the Futurists in April of the same year in Trieste, the Mostra nazionale fotografia futurista, she handed him five of her photographs.

  • Wanda Wulz, Io gatto (1932 )

The artistic photographs of Wanda Wulz are mainly portraits, self-portraits, alienated in part, and nudes in black and white. Your well- known work entitled Io gatto ( German I and Cat, English Me and cat) from 1932 shows a synthesis of her face with a cat. For this composition she placed one above the other two negatives and developed them on a sheet of photo paper. The image looks like a vision from a dream, but less mystical, since the constructed character is obvious. Mia Fineman, Curator of Photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, refers to the art of Wanda Wulz the subversive spirit of surrealism influenced. The artist offer with their image Io gatto a strong visual metaphor for the fluidity of female identity and the scary -looking dissolution of the boundaries between the self and the other.

Wanda Wulz it to establish itself as a professional photographer at a time when women were usually only the goal of the photographic gaze succeeded. With her ​​sister she worked until 1981 in the shared studio in Trieste. Since she had no heirs, she handed her photographic work Fratelli Alinari. It is archived in the Museo di Storia della Fotografia Fratelli Alinari, founded in 1985 in Florence. Your images belong to the art collections of the great museum in the world.

Group exhibitions since 2004

  • Faking it Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York October 11, 2012 to January 27, 2013
  • Sight of Italy, 1841-1941. Great masters of Italian photography in Alinari Museum collections, Rosphoto State Museum and Exhibition Centre for Photography, St. Petersburg November 17, 2011 to January 15, 2012
  • Female Trouble. July the camera as a mirror and stage productions female, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich 18 to October 26, 2008
  • Sus ojos les delatan, Fundacion Photo Colectania, Barcelona November 22, 2006 to March 24, 2007
  • Vu d'Italie 1841-1941, Museo Nazionale Alinari della Fotografia MNAF, Florence 28 October to 10 December 2006
  • Vu d'Italie 1841-1941. La photographie italienne dans les collections du Musée Alinari, Pavillon des Arts, Paris, November 10, 2004 to March 6, 2005
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