Crown Point Press

Gymnasium Chases

Christian Boltanski

A portfolio of 24 photogravures in a metal box
Sheet: Each 23-1/4” X 16-1/2”
Image: Each 19-1/8” X 13-1/4”
Printer: Daria Sywulak
Publisher: Crown Point Press
Edition 15

$20,000
*Edition sold out

GYMNASIUM CHASES, a portfolio of photogravures by French artist Christian Boltanski, is based on a photograph of the 1931 graduating class of the Gymnasium Chases, a Jewish High School in Vienna. Although Boltanski has employed many of these portraits in altar-like installations, this is the first time the class is presented in its entirety.

alt
alt
alt
alt
Gymnasium Chases, 1991
Gymnasium Chases, 1991
Gymnasium Chases, 1991
Gymnasium Chases, 1991
alt
alt
alt
alt
Gymnasium Chases, 1991
Gymnasium Chases, 1991
Gymnasium Chases, 1991
Gymnasium Chases, 1991
alt
alt
alt
alt
Gymnasium Chases, 1991
Gymnasium Chases, 1991
Gymnasium Chases, 1991
Gymnasium Chases, 1991
alt
alt
alt
alt
Gymnasium Chases, 1991
Gymnasium Chases, 1991
Gymnasium Chases, 1991
Gymnasium Chases, 1991
alt
alt
alt
alt
Gymnasium Chases, 1991
Gymnasium Chases, 1991
Gymnasium Chases, 1991
Gymnasium Chases, 1991
alt
alt
alt
alt
Gymnasium Chases, 1991
Gymnasium Chases, 1991
Gymnasium Chases, 1991
Gymnasium Chases, 1991