Heinrich Zille Children of the street
To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Berlin illustrator, draughtsman and photographer Heinrich Zille (born 1858, Radeburg; died 1929, Berlin) the Academy of Arts and the Stadtmuseum Berlin Foundation will be mounting a joint exhibition entitled "Children of the Street". The name of the exhibition is a direct reference to Zille's first published book, which appeared in 1908, and is not to be taken literally but rather as a metaphor for all uprooted and displaced persons in the Berlin of

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EDWARD STEICHEN Une épopée photographique
Edward Steichen (1879-1973) est l'une des figures les plus prolifiques, les plus influentes et les plus controversées de la photographie. À l'intérieur d'une pratique toujours novatrice, il aborde à la fois le portrait, le nu, le paysage naturel et urbain, la photographie de mode, de publicité, de fleurs, de danse, de théâtre et de guerre et semble avoir écrit à lui seul un chapitre de l'histoire de la photographie. Dès 1900, il est reconnu des deux côtés de l'Atlantique comme l'une

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Beate Gütschow somewhere else
The Haus am Waldsee presents the Berlin-based photographer Beate Gütschow (1970) with more than 20 large-scale photographs and videos from her latest production. Idyll and utopia are pivotal concepts for this artist, who studied art with Bernhard Blume and Wolfgang Tilmans from 1993 to 2000 in Hamburg. Her landscapes and cityscapes are reflections on formulas as they were developed in the landscape painting of the 17th and 18th century, when nature was constructed as something highly artificial

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