3. Europäischer Monat der Fotografie Berlin 2008

Gisèle Freund: Blick auf den Marx-Engels-Platz, einst Standort vom Berliner Schloß
1957 © Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin
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The centrepiece of this exhibition, held to mark the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Jewish photographer, consists of 40 shots she took of Berlin in the years 1958 to 1962.
Born in Schöneberg in 1908, when she passed her Abitur [German school leaving qualification, equivalent to English 'A' level.] she was given a Leica miniature camera by her father, and it was this that she used for her first photographic attempts. She went on to study sociology and history of art, first in Freiburg and then in Frankfurt. In 1933 she was forced to emigrate. In  Paris she created her celebrated portraits of writers. In 1957 she revisited the ruined city of her birth, to which she had actually vowed never to return. We can imagine ourselves accompanying the photographer on these moving visits to Berlin. Her pictures reflect political and social life in the divided city. Also included in the exhibition are pictures by contemporary Berlin photographers Harry Croner, Albert Kolbe, Gert Schütz and Bert Sass. Impressions of West Berlin meet with contemporaneous visual images from East Berlin: everyday objects give an idea of the Zeitgeist and what it felt like to be alive at the time.

 

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Artist(s)

Harry Croner, Albert Kolbe, Gert Schütz, Gisèle Freund

Curator(s)

Angelika Ret, Ulrike Griebner, Bianca Welzing-Bräutigam

Duration of the exhibition

22.11.2008 - 8.02.2009

Vernissage

21.11.2008, 19 h

Opening times

Di, Do-So 10-18 h; Mi 12-20 h

Location

Ephraim-Palais | Stadtmuseum Berlin
Poststraße 16
10178 Berlin

T 0049 30 24002162

www.stadtmuseum.de

Public transport connections

S+U Alexanderplatz; U Klosterstraße; Bus M48, 248; Tram M2, M4, M5, M6

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