Wendt, Lionel

A  portfolio  published in 2017 and edited by our gallery  with 10 photographs  in giclee technique  is still available  

limited edition of  25

   4 boxes  left 

port folio   in black linnen box    32 x 44 cm  
matt size 31.5 x 44 cm    /  image size     circa  29 x 21 cm 
 
printed index page
 
photo 1
photo 2
photo 3
photo 4
photo 5

photo 6

photo 7

photo 8

photo 9

photo 10

 
 
 book  LIONEL WENDT ” CEYLON”     edited  2017    224  pages 141 photos. ISBN 978- 94- 90119 -49 -2 
available  new and  sealed       

info@ topeek.com          price € 375,= 

 
a  selection of available vintage prints in our stock  

boy and column
1938
vintage toned gelatin silverprint
20.2 x 25.2 cm  sold
 

 

boy and column
1938
vintage toned gelatin silverprint
19.6 x 25 cm 
sold
portrait with turban
c 1939
vintage toned gelatin silverprint
14.4 x 18.4 cm  
sold
 portrait boy
c 1936
vintage toned gelatin silverprint
32.2 x 29.6 cm

                                        1938   solarized print laying boy

                                            26 x 38 cm     sold                                                                 

 
young boy nude
c 1940
vintage toned gelatin silverprint
24 x 15 cm  
sold

nude
1938
vintage toned gelatin silverprint
36 x 26 cm

sitting boy
1938
vintage toned gelatin silverprint
36 x 28.4 cm 
sold

near the beach (detail)
1940

vintage gelatin silverprint
37 x 26 cm
 
young man with fishing net
c 1938
vintage toned gelatin silverprint
25 x 30 cm   
sold

boy (detail)
c 1936
vintage toned gelatin silverprint
24 x 30.6 cm   
sold

sitting young man in sarong
1937
vintage toned gelatin silverprint
30 x 20.2 cm

     boy in folded sarong c 1937
      vintage gelatin silver print
     29 x 19.4 cm   sold 

                                                            

we have 12 vintage prints more  available in our stock
please ask for price and image list 
 

Modernist art photographer Lionel Wendt was born in 1900 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, to a prominent family of Dutch and Sinhalese origin. He qualified as a barrister in England in 1924 where he also trained as a classical concert pianist. By 1928 Wendt had abandoned law for music, developing an interest in modern art as well as avant garde music. However, by 1932, while still giving piano concert recitals, Wendt had turned to photography as his major medium of artistic expression. (His father was a judge but also an amateur photographer and had taught his son the craft.) Wendt exhibited his prints in many international photography salons and had several solo exhibitions.

Artistically Wendt was influenced in particular by surrealism and experimented with various techniques and processes, including montage and solarisation. He is principally a figurative artist and even his still-life studies have a human interest character.

Wendt’s  photographs as a regional modernist in the Asia-Pacific region parallels the surrealist ideas of Australian modernist Max Dupain in Sydney during the 1930s and 1940s. Wendt’s image of a classical statue and what appears to be the head of a bodhisattva is similar to works by Dupain in its strange counterpoints of objects. The image, however, also seems to refer to Wendt’s European and Sinhalese heritage.

Wendt died prematurely  on  December 20th 1944 .

memorial publication on his photography legacy was published in the 1950s and a relatively small number of his prints survive.   Wendt’s negatives were destroyed by an executor. In 1953 the Lionel Wendt Art Centre was established in Colombo. It is dedicated to the performing arts, painting, sculpture and photography

Text  : the National Gallery of Australia 2010  by senior curator mrs. Geal Newton

    

              

   self portrait Wendt c 1936s  (collection  Sun pride Hong Kong )                          Camera club London 1938  (collection  ton Peek)

 

                          

detail  of his desk at his studio in Colombo circa 1940s (collection Ton Peek)

 

                     

 Signature  in red ;Lionel Wendt

 

 Exhibitions

1935       First exhibition of  Lionel Wendt in group show of the  Photographic society of Ceylon

1938       one man show Camera Club London  UK

1970       Town Hall ,  Colombo, Ceylon

1994       Lionel  Wendt Memorial centre Colombo, organized by Deutsche bank                             

1996       Camera Works    gallery 706  Colombo  Ceylon

1997-      Paris Photo Fair ,     Ton Peek Galerie NL

1998       Paris Photo Fair       Ton Peek  Galerie NL

1999       Paris Photo Fair ,     Ton Peek  Galerie NL

1999      “Portrait “ Group Show   Laurence Miller Gallery  New York   

1999       Paradise Road  Gallery  one man show .Colombo. 

1999       One man show    Ton Peek  gallery  Utrecht ( see illustration) The Netherlands

2000       A centennial tribute   Lionel Wendt  1900/2000  at Lionel Wendt  Art Centre   Colombo. Ceylon

2003       Fukuoka Asian Art Museum  , Fukuoka, Japan.    "      Ceylon by Wendt ".  (see invitation)

2013       Unseen pictures by Wendt   one man show .    Ton Peek  Gallery   Utrecht  The Netherlands

2014       Gwangju Bienale ,  Gwangju South Korea , (curated  by Jessica Morgan)

2015       One man show.   Frieze Master Art fair  London  UK

2017       Port- Folio,   (launch of ) 10  new printed photographs by Lionel Wendt,  edition Ton Peek , The Netherlands

2017       Fashion Show " You can't take it with you "  by  Jonathan Anderson ,  Paris.  France

2017       Lionel Wendt Ceylon ,  144 photographs on display ,  Museum Huis Marseille  Amsterdam  June - September   2017

2017       Documenta Kassel   ( edition Athens) ,  April-June   2017

                                                                                    

invitation ton peek gallery 1999                                        
invitation Fukuoka Art Museum 2003                            
invitation  Museum Huis Marseille 2017



                   

Movies / Documentary

Song of Ceylon 1936  (Lionel Wendt was the narrator for this film by Basil Wright )  

Lionel Wendt - A Sketch   April 2012       




Books and  Selected Bibliography. 

Ceylon Daily news 1930-1944/ Times of Cylon  1930-1944/ Lanka Magazine 1946

Lionel Wendt´s Ceylon    by  L.C. van Geyzel ,  Lincolns/Prager  Publishers Ltd London 1950    120 plates   255 pages    5000 copies.

43 Group , a chronicle of fifty years in the art of Sri Lanka.  edition Latana Melbourne  1993  ISBN  0646136089




Lionel Wendt   Cataloque of the exhibition  LWM Centre Colombo  , published by Deutsche Bank 1994 



Love and Desire  1999.  Thames and Hudson Ltd    by William A Ewing. Page 191 and 216  ISBN  9076341052




Lionel Wendt    A Centennial Tribute , 2000.   The Lionel Wendt Foundation  limited edition of 1000 copies.   

ISBN  955/9114/20/0




The Gaze Of Modernity : Photographs by Lionel Wendt   , Fukuoka Asian art museum   Japan 2003.   64 pages Cataloque 2003




Stripped Bare . 2004   Publisher : Hatje Cantz Verlag Germany. 253 pages Photographs from the collection of Thomas Koerfer , Zurich . ISBN 9783775714990




Hommes pour Hommes   , Homoérotisme et homosexualité masculine dans l´histoire de la photographie depuis 1840. Pierre Borhan     edition Les editions des deux Terres 2007 page 129- 147 –  149- 214 ISBN 9782848930




Picture Paradise   National gallery of Australia 2008

Asia Pacific photography 1840-1949          Isbn  9780642541758




ArtReview Asia no 1  september 2013 .  article:  by Niru Ratman2017  




Lionel Wendt Ceylon ,  catalogus ,144 works by Wendt   published during  museum  exhibition  Huis Marseille   Amsterdam ,  FW books Amsterdam




Lionel Wendt    , Art and Life    by  Sampath Bandara   ,    Saravasi publishers  Nugegoda, Sri Lanka  

isbn 978-955--310922-4       -  year  2017




Financieel Dagblad   FD magazine  8 pages   text by     Mieke Smilde      May 2017




De Morgen  (Belgium newspaper )    "zwoele Dromen uit de tropen"   article by  Jan Dertaelen       August 2017

A Queer Little History  of Art,   by  Alex  Pilcher     2017   Tate edition  London ,  page 56/57  ISBN   9781849765039

 

                                            

  Fukuoka art museum 2003                                     book  43 group 1993                                          book  lionel wendt’s ceylon 1950

                                                              

  Centennial tribute 2000              stripped bare 2004 coll. thomas koerfer           hommes pour hommes 2007       Picture Pardise  Nat. Gal. Australia 2008

                           

Art Review Asia  no 1 september 2013                             Exhibition Catalogue Deutsche,bank 1994                    booklet J. Anderson 21 prints by Wendt  2017

                         

 2017 Lionel Wendt  Ceylon                                              new biography by Sampath Bandara 2017                  tate  London  2017 
collections
The Rijksmuseum  Amsterdam. NL
Manfred Heiting collection USA- NL
The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Australia
Tate Modern  Bank, London   UK
Thomas Koerfer Collection.  Zurich ,Swiss
Fukuoka Asian Art museum Fukuoka
Peter Weiermair,  Germany/Austria
Michael Watt  collection  UK
Jo Brunenberg collection.  Weert NL
LOEWE  collection Madrid 
Johnathan Anderson Collection London 
Sun Pride Foundation  Hongkong 
Cees Dam Collection Amsterdam  
Huub Smeets collectie Maastricht
Maarten Hagemeijer Amsterdam 
And many private collections in USA /Europe/ Singapore /India  etc.

 

we do have circa 17 vintage photographs in stock ,for information and stock /price list  :   info@tonpeek.com