In spring 2022, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart was able to acquire a unique collection of photographs with over 200 original prints by the main representatives of Neues Sehen, New Objectivity and Bauhaus from the Dietmar Siegert Collection, which is one of the most extensive and important private photo collections in Germany. We are now presenting a selection of around 150 of these works for the first time in THE GÄLLERY - Raum für Fotografie.
The 1920s and 30s are associated with major innovations in art and technology. After the First World War, numerous photographers searched for contemporary ways of depicting modernity, experimenting with double and multiple exposures as well as photograms, collages and montages. The selected works, including those by Herbert Bayer, Aenne Biermann, Hugo Erfurth, Lotte Jacobi, Germaine Krull, László Moholy-Nagy, Walter Peterhans, Albert Renger-Patzsch and August Sander, not only relate to each other in a variety of formal and thematic ways, but also create numerous art and photo-historical cross-references within the context of the Staatsgalerie's collection, for example to the work of Oskar Schlemmer or Willi Baumeister. The exhibition uses thematic chapters on architecture, landscape, portrait, nude and object photography to illustrate the artistic complexity of the medium and shows how the "New Vision" with its unusual perspectives and alienations has changed our perception in the long term.
October 12, 2024 to February 23, 2025
