Manassé Studio, Viennese glamour studio founded by the Hungarian-born Adorján (1893-1947) and Olga (née Spolarich; 1895-1969) Wlassics in the early 1920s. It supplied images to illustrated papers and traded in film-star postcards. Its whimsically posed, oiled, and hairless nudes, linked to contemporary cinematic and lifestyle fashions, now seem so kitschy and dated as to be rather appealing. Technical trickery showed diminutive nudes in various sexy predicaments, trapped in cigarette cases or being fished from teacups. Business boomed in the 1930s, and early in the Second World War the couple ran a studio in Berlin. After Adorján's death Olga returned to photography in Vienna, but later became a painter.
— Robin Lenman
Bibliography
- Faber, M., Divas and Lovers: Photographic Fantasies from Vienna between the Wars (1998)
