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HVVACC Exhibits

Linking Collections, Building Connections

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Konrad Cramer
Eugene Ludins and Friend, ca. 1920
Gelatin silver print
6 3/8 x 8 1/4 in.
CPW; gift of Jean Gaede
CPW1998.082
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Unknown (possibly Konrad Cramer)
Hervey White, ca. 1920
Gelatin silver print
8 1/8 x 6 1/8 in.
CPW; gift of Jean Gaede
CW1998.074
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Konrad Cramer
Jason Wingreen and Edward Mann and Masks of Hatter and Dutchess, ca. 1920
Gelatin silver print
10 1/8 x 8 in.
CPW; gift of Jean Gaede
CPW1998.064
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Konrad Cramer
Family House, ca. 1935
Gelatin silver print
7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.
CPW; gift of Aileen Cramer
CPW2009.017

Konrad Cramer, trained as a painter, came to Woodstock from Germany in 1911 and settled at the Maverick Art Colony, Hervey White’s libertarian answer to the Byrdcliffe Colony, which Cramer perceived as regimented and aristocratic. The Cramers and other Maverick artists like Eugene Ludins, Russell Lee, and Emil Ganso formed alliances in the rustic, bohemian lifestyle of the Maverick.

With encouragement from his Pictorialist photographer friends, Alfred Stieglitz and Eva Watson-Schütze, Cramer took up photography and experimented with non-traditional processes such as solarization, photograms, and multiple exposures.