Exhibition catalogue, Münchner Stadtmuseum, Sammlung Fotografie / Museum für Fotografie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, edited by Ulrich Pohlmann, Dietmar Schenk and Anastasia Dittmann in collaboration with Daria Bona, Sophie-Charlotte Opitz
Texts (German/English) by Ludger Derenthal, Monika Faber, Antje Kalcher, Mei-Hau Kunzi, Hubert Locher, Kristina Lowis, Paul Mellenthin, Sabina Mlodzianowski, Angela Nikolai, Helena Perez Gallardo, Dorothea Peters, Herbert Rott, Bernd Stiegler, Herta Wolf and the editors
416 p. with 450 colour illustrations
Format 28 x 24 cm, hardcover
68,00 €
"Models after images" - this pair of terms refers to references between images, but also to their production, in which existing images are utilised. In art academies and schools of applied arts in the 19th and early 20th centuries, photographs served as "models" or "role models" and functioned as a special type of didactic image. Photographic models were important aids in the creative practice of budding artists and accordingly generated "afterimages": paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints. The archive of the Berlin University of the Arts has preserved a photographic teaching collection that originated at its predecessor institutions, the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts and the leading School of Arts and Crafts, and dates back to the 1850s. With around 25,000 individual photographic sheets, to which bundles and albums are added, this collection is unique in Germany. Long neglected, it has been archivally and scientifically analysed in recent years. This book and the exhibitions prepared by the Munich City Museum present the collection for the first time. The extremely varied pictorial motifs include art reproductions, landscapes, nature studies of water, clouds, trees, plants, rocks, etc., architecture, still lifes with fruit, glasses, etc., portraits, genre scenes, living pictures, nudes and animal studies as well as depictions of the Orient and history. The model studies - known in France as " Études d'après nature " - were created by well-known European and American photographers, including Fratelli Alinari, Ottomar Anschütz, Karl Blossfeldt, Adolphe Braun, Eugène Cuvelier, Georg Maria Eckert, Constantin Famin, Wilhelm von Gloeden, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Jakob August Lorent, Gustave le Gray, James Robertson, Henry Peach Robinson, Giorgio Sommer, Carleton Watkins.
Exhibitions:
Munich City Museum, Photography Collection, 7/2 - 26/7/2020
Museum of Photography of the National Museums in Berlin, 26/11/2020 - 5/9/2021
