Museum of Photography (Braunschweig)

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Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 47 ″  N , 10 ° 32 ′ 7 ″  E

House 1 of the museum, June 2006

The Museum of Photography in Braunschweig is run by the association of the same name. The concern of the association, which has around 100 members, is, in addition to dealing with photography and photographic art, the preservation and remembrance of Braunschweig's photographic tradition. The Rollei and Voigtländer companies in particular stand for this tradition .

The museum is "with its highly regarded exhibition activities meanwhile an integral part of the international photography network" and continuously shows works by contemporary photographers in monographic exhibitions, including in the past by artists such as Lewis Baltz , Beate Gütschow , Seiichi Furuya , Franz Wanner and Clare Strand. Barbara Hofmann-Johnson has been running the museum since November 2016.

Every two years there is an exhibition in the museum for the prestigious award for documentary photography from the Wüstenrot Foundation in cooperation with the photographic collection of the Museum Folkwang Essen.

founding

Museum of Photography, view of House 2 from House 1, 2018

The museum was founded in 1984 by Brunswick photographers who sought to establish a forum for exchange on photographic images. Ute Karen Seggelke and Hartmut Rosen initially took over the management. For 30 years, the question of the respective contemporary perspective on photography has been the subject of lively discussions of the association supported by its members. The Museum of Photography is a registered, non-profit association with over 100 members. The diverse activities are financially made possible by the support of the city of Braunschweig , the state of Lower Saxony and the support of cultural foundations and sponsorship funds. But also the membership fees, donations and entrance fees give the museum the necessary support.

program

The Museum für Photographie Braunschweig shows international contemporary photography and important photographic works from the second half of the 20th century. As a place of debate, it sheds light on the current artistic practices of the medium from an understanding of historical and social uses as well as the current role of photography in the media. In accompanying events such as guided tours, artist talks, readings or film screenings, aspects of the works and artists presented are deepened and supplemented. A wide range of educational opportunities, especially for children and school classes, as well as exhibition catalogs and annual editions complete the program.

In addition to the headquarters in the “gatehouses”, in 2013 the museum operated the “267 quarters for contemporary art and photography” exhibition space in cooperation with the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts .

collection

The photographic legacies of the Braunschweig photographers Käthe Buchler (1876–1930) and Hans Steffens (1915–1994) as well as Nikolaus Geyer (1968–2005) form the focus of the collection and are outstanding archives of photography in the context of Braunschweig's history of photography. The bundles of Buchler and Steffens are of unique historical and aesthetic value despite their regional reference. With Steffens, the documentary content of his photos in and from Braunschweig, which he photographed continuously after the Second World War - for over 20 years - as a press photographer for the Braunschweiger Zeitung and himself in the categories "Historical cityscapes of buildings", "Monuments", “Museums”, “Art”, “Aerial Photos”, “Sport / Leisure”, “Working World”, “Urban Life”, “People” and “Fashion” were categorized as outstanding. Buchler, on the other hand, needs to emphasize their variety of subjects and photographic processes, as evidenced by the traditional autochrome plates , their silver gelatin dry plates and their numerous glass-plate slides for slide shows. Nikolaus Geyer's estate was handed over to the Museum of Photography Braunschweig in 2014 and presented for the first time in 2016 after an initial inventory and processing of the estate in the exhibition “Neither friend nor enemy”.

The photographs from the early days of photography with the processes of the daguerreotype , salt paper , albumen paper or Woodbury type can be regarded as photo-historical treasures , which were also taken by some of the most important photographers of the 19th century such as Hill & Adamson, Felix Nadar , Julia Margaret Cameron were made. In their authentic tradition, they document the beginning of photography and its development history in the 19th century.

The collection is housed in the Braunschweig city archive and is shown alternately with other exhibitions in the gatehouses.

Gatehouses stone gate

The Museum für Photographie Braunschweig is located in two former toll houses at Helmstedter Str. 1 (Torhaus 1) and opposite (House No. 171 - Torhaus 2), the main building being Torhaus 1. A few meters into town is the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum . The gatehouse is part of the wall ring , which was built from 1800 on the site of the abandoned bastionary fortifications. The planning and management of this holistic redesign was the responsibility of the head of construction in the Duchy of Braunschweig , Peter Joseph Krahe . The former guard and customs houses, which are mirror images of each other and are structurally identical, mark the crossing of the Oker in the course of the trunk road to Magdeburg . The single-storey plastered buildings form a unit with the presented space. The strict symmetry , the use of classicist, simple shapes and the well-balanced proportions give the gatehouses a noble character.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Photomuseum , accessed on September 16, 2017
  2. ^ Bettina Maria Brosowsky: Exhibition Documentary Photography: Responsible Photos . In: The daily newspaper: taz . August 7, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed August 10, 2018]).
  3. ^ Chronicle of the board and management. Retrieved January 29, 2020 .
  4. ↑ program. Retrieved January 29, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b collection. In: Museum for Photography Braunschweig. Museum of Photography, accessed January 29, 2020 .
  6. ^ Museum of Photography - Contact. Retrieved January 29, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Contact Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum. Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, accessed on January 29, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Gatehouses stone gate. City of Braunschweig, accessed on January 29, 2020 .

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