Wilhelm Schürmann (b. 1946) now an internationally acknowledged collector and curator of contemporary art, spent his childhood and youth in the Steinhammerstrasse in Dortmund, Germany.

Between 1979 and 1981 he returned to this familiar place numerous times, capturing it in over two thousand black-and-white negatives in a very straightforward way, yet at the same time full of enthusiasm for the everyday life he encountered there, which had hardly changed over time.

He enlarged what he considered to be the mos...

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August Sander (1876–1964) became a photographer of international renown as a result of his portraiture work People of the 20th Century. But during a career that spanned more than 50 years, he also made a continual study of other topics – in the field of landscape and architectural photography.

The idea of a trip to Sardinia came initially from August Sander's friend, the writer Ludwig Mathar. The two planned to produce a book about the island, which was a relatively unknown place at the time (the project ultimately failed to be realized, probab...

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The exhibition focuses on three classical travel destinations: Egypt, the Levant, i.e. Palestine and Lebanon, which were part of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century, and the states of pre-unified Italy. The majority of exhibits show art monuments and landscapes, flanked by a number of photographs of daily life and portraits of individuals. The three regions are depicted in images that vividly portray their architectural subject or strikingly capture the atmosphere of the scene regardless of how well the site is known. During selection, special attention was paid to correlating the examples of architectura...

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The exhibition will present for the first time in this volume the famous and influential plant studies by Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) from the collection of the Berlin University of the Arts as original prints in Cologne. Blossfeldt's photographs will be accompanied by the artist's herbaria and sculptures based on plants, the latter produced in cooperation with his teacher Moritz Meurer. The amalgamation and presentation of the various groups of work from the Berlin Blossfeldt collection provides detailed insight into the working style of the artist, who taught the study of natural forms in Berlin for over thirty years. His plant photograp...

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