In the space of a single decade, the so-called “Golden Twenties”, photographer Marta Astfalck-Vietz (1901–1994) created a glittering corpus of portrait, nude and dance photography and conceptual series. Idiosyncratic enactments reveal her interest in self-invention. For these she not only took the pictures, but also arranged the setting, directed and posed.
The innovative images composed under shared copyright with photographer Heinz Hajek-Halke
(1898–1983) achieve dreamy, often surreal effects by experimenting with techniques like distortion, double exposure and shadow play.
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Marta Astfalck-Vietz, Untitled (Selfportrait), c. 1927, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025 (JPG, 2 MB)
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Marta Astfalck-Vietz, Untitled (Selfportrait), c. 1927, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025 (JPG, 1 MB)
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Marta Astfalck-Vietz, The legs of the dancer Daisy Spies, c. 1929, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025 (JPG, 2 MB)
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Marta Astfalck-Vietz, The figures from the artist’s ashtray, c. 1930, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025 (JPG, 3 MB)
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Marta Astfalck-Vietz, Heinz Hajek-Halke, Untitled, c. 1927, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025 / © Heinz Hajek-Halke Collection, Courtesy CHAUSSEE 36 (JPG, 3 MB)
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Marta Astfalck-Vietz, Heinz Hajek-Halke, Untitled (Marta Astfalck-Vietz), c. 1927, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025 / © Heinz Hajek-Halke Collection, Courtesy CHAUSSEE 36 (JPG, 2 MB)
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Marta Astfalck-Vietz und Heinz Hajek-Halke, Untitled, c. 1927, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025 / © Heinz Hajek-Halke Collection, Courtesy CHAUSSEE 36 (JPG, 4 MB)
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Marta Astfalck-Vietz, Poppy, c. 1942, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025 (JPG, 3 MB)
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Marta Astfalck-Vietz, Untitled, from the series: Courtesy, undated, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025 (JPG, 3 MB)
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Marta Astfalck-Vietz, Untitled (The Companionate Marriage), c. 1930, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025 (JPG, 2 MB)
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Marta Astfalck-Vietz, Suicide in Spirits, c. 1927, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025 (JPG, 3 MB)
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Marta Astfalck-Vietz, Untitled, c. 1927, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025 (JPG, 3 MB)
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Marta Astfalck-Vietz, Untitled, c. 1927, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025 (JPG, 2 MB)
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Marta Astfalck-Vietz, Untiteld, um 1927, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025 (JPG, 3 MB)
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Marta Astfalck-Vietz, Untitled, after 1929, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025 (JPG, 3 MB)
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Marta Astfalck-Vietz, Untitled, c. 1927, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025 (JPG, 1 MB)
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