…Olga Solarics (1896-1969) and her husband Adorja'n von Wlassics
(1893-1946) ran the Manasse’ Foto-Salon in Vienna from 1922-1938.
Olga seems to have been the one interested in the photographic nude.
She (or they) exhibited at the 1st International Salon of Nude
Photography in Paris in 1933…” “…Studio Manasse, which
flourished in the 1930s in Vienna, captured morethan just portrait
photography bursting with erotic charge; it immortalized the fluid
state of beauty and the “new woman”: confident in her own
sexuality as she struggled to redefine her position in the modern
world. Each picture offers a conflict of concepts, as provocative
poses are presented in such traditional roles that the cynicism
intended renders them humorously absurd . Adorjan and Olga Wlassics, a
husband-and-wife team, founded Studio Manasse in the early 1920s. The
first Manasse illustrations appeared in magazines in 1924, a booming
industry at the time, as the movie industry skyrocketed and
publications aimed to satisfy a public obsessed with glimpses into the
world of glamour. Attracting some of the leading ladies of the time
from film, theater, opera, and vaudeville,Studio Manasse created
masterpieces, employing all the techniques of makeup, retouching, and
overpainting to keep their subjects happy while upholding an
uncompromised artistic vision.Molded bodies were dreams with alabaster
or marbel-like skin; backgrounds were staged so that the photographer
could control each environment. And as their art found a home, the
Wlassics found themselves able to afford a pattern of life similar to
those reflected in their photographs. Their clients ran the gamut,
from the advertising agencies to private buyers. When the Wlassics
opened a new studio ni Berlin, their business in Vienna was managed
more and more by associates, until 1937, when the firm’s name was
sold to another photographer. Adorjan passed away just ten years
later; Olga remarried and died in 1969…” text and some of the
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