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  Maywald, Willy, #15, Enghien-Les-Bains, 50-60ties

Maywald, Willy, #15, Enghien-Les-Bains, 50-60ties
Maywald, silver gelatin vintage print, 50s/60s, approx. 24 x 18 cm, stamped Maywald on the back as well as as well as various inscriptions, traces of use, price on request.


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  Maywald, Willy, #9, J. Faith 1, 50-60ties

Maywald, Willy, #9, J. Faith 1, 50-60ties
Maywald, silver gelatin vintage print, 50s/60s, approx. 24 x 18 cm, stamped Maywald on the back as well as stamp Jaques Fath, as well as various inscriptions, traces of use, price on request.


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  Maywald, Willy, #29, J. Fath 2, 01.03.1951

Maywald, Willy, #29, J. Fath 2, 01.03.1951
Maywald, silver gelatin vintage print, 1.3.1951, approx. 24 x 18 cm, stamped Maywald on the back as well as stamp Jaques Fath, as well as various inscriptions, traces of use, price on request.


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  Maywald, Willy, #4, J. Griffe 1, 06.09.1951

Maywald, Willy, #4, J. Griffe 1, 06.09.1951
Maywald, silver gelatin vintage print, 6.9.1951, approx. 24 x 18 cm, stamped Maywald on the back as well as stamp Jaques Griffe, as well as various inscriptions, traces of use, price on request.


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  Maywald, Willy, #7, J. Fath 5, 50-60ties

Maywald, Willy, #7, J. Fath 5, 50-60ties
Maywald, silver gelatin vintage print, 50s/60s, approx. 24 x 18 cm, stamped Maywald on the back as well as stamp Jaques Fath, as well as various inscriptions, traces of use, price on request.


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  Maywald, Willy, #5, J. Fath 6, 50-60ties

Maywald, Willy, #5, J. Fath 6, 50-60ties
Maywald, silver gelatin vintage print, 50s/60s, approx. 24 x 18 cm, stamped Maywald on the back as well as stamp Jaques Fath, as well as various inscriptions, traces of use, price on request.


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  Maywald, Willy, #12, Serge Kogan 1, 50-60ties

Maywald, Willy, #12, Serge Kogan 1, 50-60ties
Maywald, silver gelatin vintage print, 50s/60s, approx. 24 x 18 cm, stamped Maywald on the back as well as stamp Harrison Elliott, Paris, sticker Serge Kogan with costume description as well as various inscriptions, traces of use, price on request.


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  Maywald, Willy, #10, Mode Carvem, 12.04.1951

Maywald, Willy, #10, Mode Carvem, 12.04.1951
Maywald, silver gelatin vintage print, 1951, approx. 24 x 18 cm, stamped Maywald as well as stamp Carvem on the reverse, as well as various inscriptions, drawing, traces of use, price on request.


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  Maywald, Willy, #14, Christian Dior 1, 06.09.1951

Maywald, Willy, #14, Christian Dior 1, 06.09.1951
Maywald, silver gelatin vintage print, 1951, approx. 24 x 18 cm, stamped Maywald on the back as well as stamp Dior, and various inscriptions, traces of use, price on request.


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  Maywald, Willy, #40, Christian Dior 2, 1953

Maywald, Willy, #40, Christian Dior 2, 1953
Maywald, silver gelatin vintage print, 1953, approx. 24 x 18 cm, stamped Maywald on the back as well as sticker Dior and stamp Dior, as well as various inscriptions, drawing and description of the costume, traces of use, price on request.


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  Maywald, Willy, #18, Christian Dior 3, 1953

Maywald, Willy, #18, Christian Dior 3, 1953
Maywald, silver gelatin vintage print, 1953, approx. 24 x 18 cm, stamped Maywald on the back as well as sticker Dior and stamp Dior, as well as various inscriptions, drawing and description of the costume, traces of use, price on request.


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  Maywald, Willy, #41, J. Griffe 3, 13.03.1953

Maywald, Willy, #41, J. Griffe 3, 13.03.1953
Maywald, silver gelatin vintage print, 13.3.1953, approx. 24 x 18 cm,  Jaques Griffe, various inscriptions and date on back, traces of use, price on request.


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  Maywald, Willy, #27, J. Fath 6, 18.01.1951

Maywald, Willy, #27, J. Fath 6, 18.01.1951
Maywald, silver gelatin vintage print, 18.1.1951, approx. 24 x 18 cm, stamped Maywald on the back as well as stamp Jaques Fath, as well as various inscriptions, traces of use, price on request.


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  Maywald, Willy, #39, Christian Dior 4, 28.12.1953

Maywald, Willy, #39, Christian Dior 4, 28.12.1953
Maywald, silver gelatin vintage print, 1953, approx. 24 x 18 cm, stamped Maywald on the back as well as  stamp Dior, as well as various inscriptions, traces of use, price on request.


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  Maywald, Willy, #22, J. Griffe 2, 50ties

Maywald, Willy, #22, J. Griffe 2, 50ties
Maywald, silver gelatin vintage print, 50ties, approx. 24 x 18 cm, with sticker Jaques Griffe on back, as well as various inscriptions, traces of use, price on request.


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  Maywald, Willy, #16, J. Heim, 1951

Maywald, Willy, #16, J. Heim, 1951
Maywald, silver gelatin vintage print, 1951, approx. 24 x 18 cm, stamped Maywald on the back as well as stamp Jaques Heim, as well as various inscriptions, traces of use, price on request.


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  Maywald, Willy, #38, Robe, 07.09.1950

Maywald, Willy, #38, Robe, 07.09.1950
Maywald, silver gelatin vintage print, 1950, approx. 24 x 18 cm, stamped Maywald on the back as well as various inscriptions, traces of use, price on request.


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  Maywald, Willy, #3, Serge Kogan 2, 50ties

Maywald, Willy, #3, Serge Kogan 2, 50ties
Maywald, silver gelatin vintage print, 50s, approx. 24 x 18 cm, stamped Maywald on the back as well as  sticker Serge Kogan with costume description as well as various inscriptions, traces of use, price on request.


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  Maywald, Willy, #37, Jaques Heim, 1949

Maywald, Willy, #37, Jaques Heim, 1949
Silbergelatine Print, Vintage, stamped on back: Maywald, 22 x 22 cm


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  Maywald, Willy, #35, Serge Kogan 3, 06.03.1952

Maywald, Willy, #35, Serge Kogan 3, 06.03.1952
Maywald, silver gelatin vintage print, 1952, approx. 24 x 18 cm, stamped Maywald on the back as well as stamp Harrison Elliott, Paris, sticker Serge Kogan with costume description as well as various inscriptions, traces of use, price on request.


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Willy Maywald (1907-1985) was one of the most important photographers in Paris from the 1930s to the 1960s. His training at the Werkkunstschulen in Krefeld, Cologne and Berlin shaped his avant-garde formal language. In 1932 he moved to the Seine, where he made friends with many protagonists of artistic modernism.
His range of subjects, which includes both commissioned and free works, extends from a spectacular collection of portrait photographs and fashion photos for all the major Parisian couture houses to dance and architectural photography as well as travel and city reports.

The in focus gallery in Cologne focuses on Maywald's fashion photographs, some of which have never been shown before. Willy Maywald photographed Christian Dior's first post-war collection in Paris. His photographs went around the world and made the New Look famous. Commissions from Jacques Fath and other haute couture houses followed.
The in focus gallery has a large selection of old vintage prints of his fashion photographs in all their facets. Willy Maywald's unmistakable staging of haute couture fashion can be found in all major treatises on the history of photography, but only "specialists" know about their creator.

The Museum Kleve organised a retrospective, and there were solo exhibitions at the Cagnes Castle Museum and the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa. Maywald photographs were also represented in the show "Paris, Paris" at the Centre Pompidou. Across the pond, the Fashion Institute of Technology arranged the largest Maywald exhibition in 1982 with 150 photographs. His photos could be seen everywhere from Sao Paulo to Tokyo. After Maywald's death, interest died down again - until today, Maywald's photo treasure is waiting to be unearthed. An important protagonist of fashion photography is to be rediscovered.

Individual exhibitions (selection)

1939, Portrait et mode, Galerie Berton, Paris
1946, Portraits, Galerie Hoenigsberg, Zürich
1963 Haus Koekkoek, Kleve
1978, Pariser Kunstszene, Plazzo Ducale, Genua
          Institut Francaise, Heidelberg
1980, Galerie Martini, Genua
          Galerie Briance, Paris
1981 Portraits, Philadelphia und Houston, USA
1982 Neikrug gallery, New York
          Werner Kunze, Berlin
          Fashion, Kyoto
1983, Museu da imagem e do Som, Sao Paulo
1993, Portraits, Paris, Berlin, Metz, Gent,
          Toulouse, Barcelona, Lissabon, Taipeh
2007 Musée Carnavalet, Paris
          Museum Kurhaus, Kleve
2013 Musée du Chapeau, Chazelles-sur-Lyon
2014  Atelier Renoir, Nizza

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Willy Maywald et la Mode, Musée de la Mode, Palais Galliera, Paris 1986
Willy Maywald, L élégance du regard, Paris, 2002
Willy Maywald, Ein deutscher Fotograf der Haute Couture in Frankreich, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2010
Willy Maywald, Fotograf und Kosmopolit, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kerber Verlag, 2015