Franz Roh (21 February 1890 – 30 December 1965), was a German historian, photographer, and art critic.

Franz Roh (21 February 1890 – 30 December 1965), was a German historian, photographer, and art critic. Roh is perhaps best known for his 1925 book Nach-Expressionismus: Magischer Realismus: Probleme der neuesten europäischen Malerei ("Post-expressionism: Magical Realism: Problems of the newest European painting") he coined the term magic ...

Feb 21, 2024 · An art historian, photographer, and art critic, Franz Roh deplored photographs that were derived from painting or pretended to be drawings or charcoal sketches. His writings brought him close to avant-garde artists, who inspired many of his photographs.

Franz Roh (21 February 1890 – 30 December 1965), was a German historian, photographer, and art critic. Roh is perhaps best known for his 1925 book Nach-Expressionismus: Magischer Realismus: Probleme der neuesten europäischen Malerei ("Post-expressionism: Magical Realism: Problems of the newest European painting") he coined the term magic ...

German artist, critic, and art historian Franz Roh (1890-1965) was born in present-day Thuringia and studied at universities in Leipzig, Berlin, Basel, and Munich, where he received his Ph.D. in 1920 for work on Dutch paintings of the 17th century.

The art historian Franz Roh was an outspoken advocate of both the traditional and the experimental photography that flourished in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. He recognized that the co-existence of the straight photograph, photogram, photo-montage, and the negative print (shown here) promoted aesthetic fertility.

Modernist art historian and critic, coiner of the term “magic realism.” Roh studied philosophy, literature, history and art history at the universities in Leipzig, Berlin under Adolph Goldschmidt, and in Basel. Between 1916-1919 he worked as the assistant to Heinrich Wölfflin in Munich in his famous Kunsthistorischen Seminars.

Franz Roh (German, 1890 – 1965) German art historian, critic, collagist and photographer who not only defined the European avant-garde between the two World Wars, but who – as both critic and artist – influenced the collective trends seen in much photo-based work today.

One of the chief theoreticians of the New Vision, Franz Roh advocated photography's abstraction of the real world into flat black-and-white forms as a way to revolutionize one's perspective on the world.

Ubu Gallery presented an exhibition of more than 60 vintage photographs and 20 collages by Franz Roh, the German art historian, critic and photographer who not only defined the European avant-garde between the two World Wars, but who—as both critic and artist—influenced the collective trends seen in much photo-based work today. Ubu Gallery ...