Object Details
Artist
Hans Bellmer
Date
1936–1938
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 5 1/2 × 5 1/2 inches (14 × 14 cm)
Sheet: 6 1/4 × 5 7/8 inches (15.9 × 15 cm)
Mat: 14 × 11 inches (35.6 × 28 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired through the Ernest I. White, Class of 1893, Endowment Fund
Object
Number
87.024
Bellmer’s surrealist view of the human body is expressed in his life-size doll figures that he fir(…)
Bellmer’s surrealist view of the human body is expressed in his life-size doll figures that he first made in 1933, the year Hitler came to power. Whether the photographs he made of his dolls are seen as responses to the rise of Nazism or interpreted in Freudian terms, they also explore his hatred of his father who became a Nazi and his own sexual fantasies. (“Highlights from the Collection: 45 Years at the Johnson,” curated by Stephanie Wiles and presented at the Johnson Museum January 27–July 22, 2018)
