Discover the captivating Viennese photography of Franz Anton Adolf Setzer! Explore his portraits & social scenes from 1911-1939, featured in Orsay & more.
비엔나의 음악적 유산을 탐험하는 아르놀트 쇤베르크 센터. 20세기 혁신적인 작곡가 쇤베르크의 삶과 비엔나 모더니즘을 만나는 문화 중심지.
Franz Xaver Setzer’s photo studio was one of Vienna’s most renowned addresses around 1920 (Hofstallstraße, now Museumstraße). He took portraits of personalities from social circles, important artists such as Stefan Zweig and Arthur Schnitzler and musicians passing through in transit, including Giacomo Puccini and Maurice Ravel. Arnold Schönberg visited the studio with his pupil Alban Berg in February/March 1922. However, they were not photographed together; we know they went together from an entry in the list of photographic plates (which still survives today, along with the studio’s complete equipment and glass plate negatives). Schönberg was very satisfied with his portraits: “Dear Mr. Setzer, my most sincere thanks for the photographs. They are very fine and I will be completely satisfied if I succeed in looking as good as these pictures, which are entirely suitable as paragons.” (Arnold Schönberg to Franz Xaver Setzer, 16 March 1923)