Dieter Keller (19091985)
Photos from the eastern front
Galerie Berinson
Dieter Keller: Gänseköpfe
1941 © Familie Keller
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Dieter Keller was the publisher of the Kosmos publishing house in Stuttgart. He was a close friend of Willi Baumeister and Oskar Schlemmer, as well as having numerous friendly contacts with famous artists of the day.
Keller left behind him a mixed bag of some 200 photographs, which he took with a Russian Leica when he was a soldier deployed in Russia. As well as portraits of the local population, and landscape and village shots, the pictures focus above all on the destruction wrought by the war the dead, deformed bodies of fallen soliders, civilians and animal corpses. As far as we know to date, Kellers detachment in Russia was primarily deployed in the border region between Belarus and the Ukraine.
These photos are the only surviving pictorial records of this time. They were selected and enlarged by Dieter Keller himself. Each picture is a unique copy, as all the old negatives were destroyed by an explosion in 1958/59.
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Theme
New pictorial worlds, new techniques
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Artist(s)
Dieter Keller
Duration of the exhibition
16.10. - 21.11.2010
Vernissage
15.10.2010, 18 h
Opening times
Di-Sa 11-18 h
Location
Galerie Berinson
Lindenstraße 34
10969 Berlin
T 0049 30 28387990
Public transport connections
U6 Kochstr.
Bus 248, M29
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