Exhibition

Germaine Krull. Photographs

15 Oct 2015 – 31 Jan 2016

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Thursday
11:00 – 19:00
Friday
11:00 – 19:00
Saturday
10:00 – 19:00
Sunday
10:00 – 19:00
Monday
11:00 – 19:00
Wednesday
11:00 – 19:00

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Berlin, Germany

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Germaine Krull was a prominent photographer in 1920s and ‘30s Paris, who shaped the history of photography with her experimental shots and photo articles for magazines like VU, Variété and Jazz. She is one of the protagonists of modern-day photography, yet her work has rarely been explored, and only presented at a few exhibitions.

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For the first time in Germany, the Martin-Gropius-Bau, in co-operation with the Jeu de Paume Paris, is dedicating a retrospective to the focus areas of her work and her aesthetic innovations. With about 130 original prints, and excerpts from photo magazines, the exhibition demonstrates the extraordinary depth and inventiveness of her pieces.

As part of photography’s avant garde, Germaine Krull was closely affiliated with artists like Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Man Ray and André Kertész. Walter Benjamin and Jean Cocteau were photographed by her, and were among her admirers. Benjamin included her in his “Kleine Geschichte der Fotografie” (brief history of photography). He highly regarded Germaine Krull’s strong engagement at both a political and social level, coupled with her radical visual aesthetics, ranking her alongside artists such as August Sander and Karl Blossfeldt. Jean Cocteau is quoted as saying that she and her camera have “uncovered a new world, fusing technology with soul”.

Yet Germaine Krull’s work is difficult to classify. She has developed a profile as a unique, distinctive photographer, particularly during her Paris years (1926-1935). Both her oeuvre and her life are characterised by changes and relocations.

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