Posing dance group
(Tanzgruppe Trude Goodwin)
(1930)
Medium
gelatin silver photograph
Measurements
15.9 × 19.8 cm (image) 16.8 × 20.7 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Bowness Family Fund for Photography, 2024
Gallery location
Special Exhibitions Gallery
Ground Level, NGV International
About this work
Kitty Hoffmann worked and studied at Vienna’s die Graphische visual arts college from 1922 to 1924. Three years later, upon completing her studies, she opened a photographic studio in the city, specialising in fashion and society portraiture. Hoffmann’s photographs were regularly published in popular lifestyle and theatre magazines of the time, including Die Dame von Heute (The Lady of Today) and Die Bühne (The Stage). This photograph depicts dancers from the Trude Goodwin dance group. The dancers form a graphic shape that echoes the oval stage-set behind them, encapsulating the Ausdruckstanz, or ‘expressive dance’ movement, which reached peak popularity in Vienna during the 1920s.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Vienna, Austria
Inscription
inscribed in pencil on reverse u.c.: 4949 / Tanzgruppe Trude / Goodwin
stamped (vertically) in purple ink and inscribed in pencil on reverse c.r.: COPYRIGHT BY / KITTY HOFFMANN, WIEN / Bei Nachbesttellungen ist diese / Platten Nr. 4949 anzugeben
Accession Number
2024.113
Department
International Photography