Ellen Auerbach
Photographs 19301959
Galerie Mönch Berlin
Ellen Auerbach: Schwefelbad, Big Sur, Kalifornien
1950 © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2010
Ellen Auerbach, born in Karlsruhe in 1906, learned the art of photographic vision from Walter Peterhans (later a Bauhaus professor) in Berlin, where she founded the legendary photographic studio ringl + pit in partnership with Grete Stern in 1929.
In 1933 Auerbach emigrated, arriving by way of Palestine and London in New York, where she lived until her death in 2004. In a retrospective comment on her photos, she said: They are designed to show something in a realistic way which the realistic eye would be inclined to miss.
This exhibition presents around 40 of Auerbachs momentary photographs, taken after she emigrated, as well as pictures indebted to the Neues Sehen [New Vision] movement, vintage prints from a Munich private collection and a portfolio assembled by the artist herself in 1992. Iconic pictures on view include Sulphur Bath, taken in 1950 (Big Sur, California) and Eckstein with Lipstick (Berlin, 1930). The exhibition also includes portraits of artistic friends like Bertolt Brecht and Willem de Kooning.
Theme
New pictorial worlds, new techniques
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Artist(s)
Ellen Auerbach
Duration of the exhibition
16.10. - 20.11.2010
Vernissage
16.10.2010, 11 h
Finissage
20.11.2010, 11 h
Opening times
Do-Fr 15-19 h, Sa 11-15 h
Location
Galerie Mönch Berlin
Reichsstraße 52
14052 Berlin
T 0049 30 30819454
Public transport connections
U2 Neu-Westend
Bus 104, M45
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