Max Baur: Light Builder

Max Baur

Max Baur (1898 – 1988) described himself as a ‘light builder’. To his mind, light was the most important formal tool in photography. ‘Photographers can hardly admire anything more than light. Only with light alone do we create images.’ He always took enough time to achieve the ideal lighting conditions for his motifs and scenes.
unterwegs antiquariat & galerie presents an exhibition of masterful large-format vintage prints. The subjects and motifs Baur selected for his photographs and the way he approached them through the camera lens show how much he was influenced by the avant-garde and partly also by Bauhaus. The prints also testify to his great craftsmanship.
Max Baur had New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) in his veins, its way of seeing. His landscapes are still only known to a relative few – which is all the more astonishing given that his photographs are comparable in power to those of the big names of American landscape photography, such as Ansel Adams.