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FIEDLER, Frans. Narre Tod, Mein Spielgesell', ca. 1923. Kunstbildner Frans Fiedler, Text: Thea Giradelli ; Verlag. Der Schönheit, Dresden – A. 24. 10 plates, Folio, 34 cm x 27 cm. Original cloth portfolio. A weird and wonderful album of life's dance with sex, love and death by the eccentric photographer Franz Fiedler (1885-1956). which shows a nude woman with a skeleton in various erotic poses. The preceding text, tells about death who is a fool and her playmate. A wonderful and in every sense of the world unique album, made against the backdrop of unstable Weimar republic, in which hedonism, sex and fear where indeed intimated companions. Fiedler won at the 1911 world exhibition in Turin the first prize and had another exhibition in Prague in 1913. He belonged to the circle of Jaroslav Hašek and Egon Erwin Kisch and in 1916 married Erna Hauswald in Dresden where he occupied astudio at Sedanstraße 7. From 1919, he began to work with a 9×12 folding camera and in 1924 became one of the first… Read More