Following its successful presentation at the Oldenburger Stadtmuseum, the exhibition "Strangers in Sight - Photo Albums from the Second World War" will be on show for three months at the Münchner Stadtmuseum - Sammlung Fotografie.

Some 150 privately owned photo albums - loans from former Northern German Wehrmacht soldiers and their families - as well as albums from museums and archives form the basis of the show. The photography collection of the Münchner Stadtmuseum is supplementing them substantially with a large number of soldiers' snapshots and albums from its own holdings. This exhibition is the resu...

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Nude Visions - 150 Years Body Images in Photography

The exhibition "Nude Visions" is an introduction to the collection of photographs in the Münchner Stadtmuseum, showing a representative selection of images of the human body. The show starts with so-called "academies", plates used as models by artists like Delacroix and Courbet. Yet, at the same time photographers already made pictures of the nude that had artistic ambitions. Beginning in the 1870s, nude models were placed outside of the studio in the open air, typically in the Mediterranean country-side of Italy or North Africa. Using photography a...

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The Life of Things.
The Idea of Still Life in Photography 1840 - 1985
150 Photographs from the Siegert Collection

Since the early 1970s, Dietmar Siegert, a film director and producer in Munich, has been collecting photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries. Today, his collection is one of the most significant private collections of this medium in the world. One of his focal points is the genre of still life and nature morte. For the first time ever, the 150 selected original prints showcased in the exhibition "The Life of Things" provide an overview of and insights into the concept of still life in ...

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Martin Fengel - Journal of Science
Catalogue at schaden.com

...there's that one maxim by Ludwig Wittgenstein, who wanted to bring all science back to the basics of philosophy; there are even quite a few maxims by Wittgenstein which are very appropriate to what Martin Fengel is doing. It is almost as if Fengel wanted to demonstrate what Wittgenstein meant. In Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, for example, Wittgenstein writes, "What can be shown cannot be said", referring primarily to language in its elementary form. He also says, "A sentence shows a logical form of reality. It emphasizes it."
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