The history of the École de Paris is inextricably linked to its representation - a process of image production and reception that was significantly influenced by the French photographer Brassaï, who came from Transylvania. For more than three decades he photographed painters and sculptors such as Georges Braque, Aristide Maillol, Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti and Pablo Picasso in their studios for art magazines and lifestyle magazines. This publication is the first to comprehensively devote itself to these recordings and their impact history. They focus on the staging, medialization and dissemination of romantic ideas about artistry, which are closely linked to the discourse and definition process of the École de Paris. Using a method that captures aspects of photography, studio and avant-garde history as mutual parameters, the author opens up the École de Paris as a (media) historical phenomenon that shapes our idea of the modern artist to this day.
This dissertation was awarded the Deubner Prize for Art History 2024.
