Anton Josef Trčka

Anton Josef Trčka (7 September 1893 – 16 March 1940) was an Austrian-born Czech photographer, painter and poet.

His studio was destroyed by a bomb in 1944, and photographs of artists Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele are some of the few surviving examples of his work.

During that time he experimented with new photographic techniques, and some of his pictures were produced both in silver bromide and bromoil prints, as mirror images.

He also often modified the background of a negative with a brush to create a more artistic expression.

[1] Continuing to study his craft, Trčka was one of the students of Hella Katz.