Europäischer Monat der Fotografie Berlin - Exhibitions (in chronological order)

Grete Stern: from the Bauhaus to the Gran Chaco

Photographic reports from the north of Argentina (1958-1964)

Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Grete Stern: Kind von der ethnischen Gruppe der Toba. Chaco, Argentinien
1964 © Matteo Goretti
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Grete Stern (19041998) was born in Wuppertal. Before moving to Berlin in 1927, she studied at Kunsthochschule Stuttgart [Stuttgart College of Art]. At the Bauhaus in Berlin she joined the photography class of Walter Peterhans, where she made the acquaintance of her future husband, the Argentinean photographer Horacio Coppola. In 1934 the couple emigrated first to London, and then a year later to Argentina, where Grete Stern lived for the rest of her life.

The exhibition Vom Bauhaus in den Gran Chaco [From the Bauhaus to the Gran Chaco] shows a selection of Grete Sterns photographic works, incorporating studio photographs, landscapes, portraits, social studies, commercial photography, photomontages and still lifes. It is being shown under the auspices of the Argentinian Cultural Programme (Argentina was guest of honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2010). Grete Stern documented the human situation in the Gran Chaco without mitigation, but also with complete respect. The exhibition is supplemented by cultural objects from the Gran Chaco, lent by Berlins Ethnological Museum.