Das Pferd in Bewegung, Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge
Das Pferd in Bewegung
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Eadweard Muybridge

Das Pferd in Bewegung, 1878


Darstellung
6.9 x 19 cm
Physical Description
Albumen print mounted on cardboard
Inventory Number
St.F.139
Acquisition
Acquired in 2011 with support from the Kulturstiftung der Länder and the Hessischer Kulturstiftung, property of the Städelscher Museums-Verein e.V.
Status
Not on display

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About the Work

Taken in "56 photographic snapshots" on albumen paper, Eadweard Muybridge recorded the movement of the horse and thus produced proof in 1878 that the creature briefly lifts all four legs off the ground and "hovers" in the air while it is galloping. Muybridge founded serial photography using technically complicated structures consisting of 12, 24 and eventually 36 cameras which took pictures in sequence. These early serial pictures and studies of human and animal movement sequences, known as chronophotography, provided important impulses for the development of moving pictures and are forerunners of the cinema film. Photography and film were, at the time, still very new technologies.

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Title
Das Pferd in Bewegung (Original Title)
Title Translation
The Horse in Motion
Photographer
Period Produced
School
Object Type
Physical Description
Albumen print mounted on cardboard
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Label at the Time of Manufacture
Bezeichnet recto oben links auf dem Karton: Druckschrift: Eigenthümer Gustav DITTMAR, 4, Elisabeth-Ufer. Berlin.
Bezeichnet recto oben rechts auf dem Karton: Druckschrift: ORIGINALPLATTE ANGEFERTIGT 1878.
Bezeichnet recto unten Mitte auf dem Karton: teilweise Druckschrift und Handschriftlich: No 6. DAS PFERD IN BEWEGUNG; Aufgenommen in 56 photographischen Augenblicksbildern von Muybridge in San Francisco; Für Deutschland debitirt von E. S. MITTLER & SOHN, Koenigliche Hofbuchhandlung und Buckdruckerei BERLIN s. w. Koch Str., 69 & 70; Das Pferd. Abe Edgington Geschwindigkeit. 200 Meter per minute.; Die verticalen Linien haben eine Entfernung von 533 mm, die horizontalen ein solche von 100 mm von einander.

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Departement
Collection
Creditline
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Eigentum des Städelschen Museums-Vereins e.V.
Picture Copyright
Public Domain
Acquisition
Acquired in 2011 with support from the Kulturstiftung der Länder and the Hessischer Kulturstiftung, property of the Städelscher Museums-Verein e.V.

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Last update

11.09.2023