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Gertrude Käsebier — Portrait of the Artist's Daughter (Hermine Käsebier)
Gertrude Käsebier

Portrait of the Artist's Daughter (Hermine Käsebier)

A tender and intimate portrait by pioneering photographer Gertrude Käsebier, this image captures her daughter Hermine in a softly rendered composition characteristic of the Pictorialist movement. The work reflects Käsebier's mastery of light and atmosphere, lending the image a painterly, dreamlike quality that elevates photography to fine art. The portrait speaks to both a mother's intimate gaze and an artist's deliberate aesthetic vision.

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December 22, 2014

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Gertrude Käsebier, Portrait of the Artist's Daughter (Hermine Käsebier)

A tender and intimate portrait by pioneering photographer Gertrude Käsebier, this image captures her daughter Hermine in a softly rendered composition characteristic of the Pictorialist movement. The work reflects Käsebier's mastery of light and atmosphere, lending the image a painterly, dreamlike quality that elevates photography to fine art. The portrait speaks to both a mother's intimate gaze and an artist's deliberate aesthetic vision.

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Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Intimate, American, Photograph, Soft Focus, Early Modern, Portrait, Sepia, Woman, Pictorialism, Figurative

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Collected by

Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art