Henriette Grindat - Méditerranées
Photographs 1947-1965
DAS VERBORGENE MUSEUM
organised by: Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur
Henriette Grindat: Ägypten
1958 © Henriette Grindat, Fotostiftung Schweiz / ProLitteris
For the first time in Germany Das Verborgene Museum [The Hidden Museum] is showing photographs by Henriette Grindat (19231986), who together with photographic journalists Anita Niesz (born 1925) and Monique Jacot (born 1934) and their colleagues Werner Bischof (19161954), Gotthard Schuh (18971969) and Jakob Tuggener (19041988) is regarded as one of the most influential photographers in Switzerland in the years since the War.
Born in Lausanne, Grindat completed in 1946 a three-year course of training at the Ecole de Photographie de Suisse Romande, directed by photographer Gertrude Fehr, who specialised in portraits, theatre and experimental photography. In 1949 Grindats surrealistic shots of subjective photographic poetry achieved considerable recognition in artistic circles in Paris. Encounters with writers like Albert Camus and René Char led to joint book productions combining text and image, which still have appeal today as photographic experiments. The present exhibition, Méditerranées [Mediterraneans], has been organised by the Fotostiftung Schweiz [Swiss Photographic Foundation] and shows a selection of her urban landscapes from southern climes.
Theme
New pictorial worlds, new techniques
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Artist(s)
Henriette Grindat
Curator(s)
Marion Beckers, Berlin; Sylvie Henguely, Winterthur
Duration of the exhibition
22.10.2010 - 30.01.2011
Vernissage
21.10.2010, 19 h
Opening times
Do-Fr 15-19 h, Sa-So 12-16 h
Location
DAS VERBORGENE MUSEUM
Schlüterstraße 70
10625 Berlin
T 0049 30 3133656
Public transport connections
U2 Ernst-Reuter-Platz
S3, 5, 7, 75 Savignyplatz
Bus M49, X34, 101
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