Joseph Daimer was a significant figure in Austrian photography during the early decades of the 20th century when he was teaching at the renowned Vienna Graphic School (where Rudolf Koppitz was also teaching). During the 1940s he was also chief editior of the “Photographische Korrespondenz”, an important photographic journal. His oeuvre spans several decades from 1910s to the 1950s. His work is typical of the Vienna pictorialist school and Daimer was famous for his experimentation with elaborate printing techniques (gum, bromide, carbon, etc…) which gave his photographs a more graphic texture. His more mature work hower is characterised by increasing gestures towards cleaner and sharper form of modernism.