Barbara Klemm

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Barbara Klemm at the awarding of the Max Beckmann Prize 2010 in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt

Barbara Klemm (born December 27, 1939 in Münster , Westphalia ) is a German photographer and press photographer .

Life

Barbara Klemm grew up in Karlsruhe , where her father Fritz Klemm worked as a professor at the Karlsruhe Art Academy , and her mother, Antonia, Countess von Westphalen, was also an artist. Fritz Klemm, who had a darkroom , familiarized his daughter with photographic techniques. After attending secondary school, she completed an apprenticeship as a photographer in a Karlsruhe portrait studio with Julie Bauer from 1955 to 1958 , which she completed with a journeyman's examination.

In 1959 she moved to Frankfurt am Main and worked in cliché production and in the photo laboratory of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . The photographer Wolfgang Haut (1927–2001) inspired her to do freelance work and journalistic photography . She initially worked as a freelancer, from 1970 until her retirement in 2005 as an editorial photographer for the FAZ . Her photographs have also appeared in numerous books, weekly newspapers and magazines.

Her focus is on motifs from politics and the feature pages , her pictures, all black and white, cover a wide spectrum of press photography . Her portraits , landscapes and the cultural impressions of her travels are the outstanding themes in her oeuvre . Barbara Klemm is highlighted in the criticism as a photographer who stands out due to a balanced, often subtly selected image section. Her photos go far beyond the short-lived “ordinary” press photography that illustrates mere daily events. Some of her photos, such as those by Willy Brandt and Leonid Brezhnev or Brandt and Helmut Schmidt , have become iconic images in society's “photographic memory”.

Barbara Klemm is a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts and honorary professor at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences . Since 2010 she has been a member of the board of trustees of the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain . She lives and works in Frankfurt am Main.

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Photos by Barbara Klemm in the Bockenheimer Warte underground station , February 2010

Barbara Klemm's work is mainly divided into three subject areas: Germany (landscape, politics, historical events), the world (travel, reports) and art (portraits of artist personalities). She connects these three groups of images through the systematic lack of what is supposedly representative; it captures the respective scene for a moment before or after the official or symbolic act in order to bring out the accidental or individual. With this principle of the just missed moment, she takes a personal look at the event.

In her photos, Klemm has a penchant for the picturesque. She arranges and condenses scenes, creates a tableau with which the individual figures and objects relate to one another and together form a painting. By not only capturing the object with the photos, but also immersing herself in the object, she transcends the bare object and places the image in the place of the actual event. As a result, many of Barbara Klemm's photographs appear more impressive than the historical event they depict.

Quote

“ Your supreme discipline [...] is the portrait. She has portrayed the big ones and the much bigger ones, but you never see giants at her place, just eccentrics at their workplaces, weird or lively beings in the various stages of self-assertion. [...] Loneliness becomes visible with her as a function of the ambience. The interiors tell their very own story, behind the back of the person pictured. "

- Durs Grünbein

literature

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1978: Pictures from Germany , traveling exhibition in the USSR
  • 1982: Pictures from the Federal Republic , Galerie Spektrum, Hanover
  • 1987: Pictures of the neighbor , Institut français , Paris
  • 1988: Ten German women photographers , Goethe-Institut, Brazil; United States
  • 1989: Joseph Koudelka, Graciela Irtubide, Barbara Klemm , Morsbroich Castle Museum , Leverkusen
  • 1992: Ingrid Behm, Mara Eggert, Barbara Klemm , Galerie Teufel, Mahlberg
  • 1993: Student movement 1968 - Abisag Tüllmann, Barbara Klemm , Römerhallen, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1997: Chimaera - current photo art from Central Europe , Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg , Halle; State Art Museum of Saxony-Anhalt
  • 1999: Where no eye can see , Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
  • 2001: Urban Views , Ute Parduhn Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 2002: Schupmann Collection. Photography in Germany after 1945 , Münster City Museum
  • 2004: The XX. Century - Photographs on German History 1880 to 1989 , German Historical Museum , Berlin
  • 2005: (my private) HEROES , MARTa Herford
  • 2005: Erich Salomon - Barbara Klemm , SK Foundation Culture, Cologne
  • 2005: Elective Affinities , Städelsches Kunstinstitut , Frankfurt
  • 2006: total city. beijing case , ZKM Center for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe Portrait and Human Image , SK Foundation Culture, Cologne
  • 2006: life. Seeing , Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum , Cologne; and 2007: Art Collections Zwickau
  • 2006: The Heartbeat of Fashion , Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
  • 2007: Barbara Klemm - Fritz Klemm , Dresden State Art Collections
  • 2007: Bare Life , Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
  • 2007: Portrait of the street , Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren
  • since 2007: Zeitsprung - Erich Salomon, Barbara Klemm , worldwide touring exhibition of the Institute for Foreign Relations, premiere in the Guardini Gallery, Berlin; The tour is expected to end in 2020 at the earliest
  • 2008: From Art and Politics: Photographs , Art Space of the German Bundestag, Berlin
  • 2008: Landed. The collection in the new house , Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus
  • 2011: arc of suspense. Figure and space. From the collection , Art Museum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus
  • 2013: Aufbruch - Pictures from Germany , photographs from the Fricke Collection, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum , Aachen
  • 2014: Barbara Klemm / Stefan Moses , Museum Küppersmühle for Modern Art , Duisburg

Awards

Barbara Klemm with the Order Pour le Mérite (2014)

Works

  • Sabine Gerbaulet: Elementary school, children's school (photos), Kronberg im Taunus 1977.
  • Barbara Klemm: September 13 - November 9, 1985 , Berlin 1985 (photographs 1968–1985, exhibition catalog)
  • Pictures , Frankfurt am Main 1986.
  • Pictures of people walking, sitting, waiting, reportage photography , Frankfurt am Main 1991 (with Barbara Catoir)
  • Günter de Bruyn : My Brandenburg (photos), Frankfurt am Main 1993.
  • Walter Haubrich, Eva Karnofsky: Cities of Latin America (photos), Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1994.
  • Looking east, 1970–1995 , Frankfurt am Main 1995.
  • Thomas Steinfeld (photos): Weimar , Stuttgart 1998.
  • Our years. Pictures from Germany 1968–1998 , Berlin 1999 (exhibition catalog).
  • Artist portraits , (with Wilfried Wiegand ) published in 2004 by Nicolai Verlag, Berlin.
  • Timeskip. Erich Salomon. Barbara Klemm , (exhibition catalog), Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations V. (ifa), Stuttgart 2007.
  • Memory training , (photos of Hans Dieter Schäfer's recordings), published in 2009 by Verlag Thomas Reche, Neumarkt in a limited, signed edition of 400 copies, ISBN 978-3-907142-48-6 .
  • Street pictures (with introductions by Barbara Catoir and Hans Magnus Enzensberger ), limited edition by Nimbus Verlag, Wadenswil, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland ISBN 978-3-907142-48-6 . At the same time also an edition of the FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) in a limited edition of 100 copies.
  • Barbara Klemm. Chiaroscuro. Photographs from Germany , (exhibition catalog), Institute for Foreign Relations e. V. (ifa), Stuttgart 2009.
  • Abiku , (photos by Barbara Klemm and Robert Lebeck on poems by Wole Soyinka ), Verlag Thomas Reche, Neumarkt 2012, ISBN 978-3-929566-89-5 .
  • Photo book Andreas Rossmann Text, foreword by Karl Ganser : The smoke no longer connects the cities. Ruhr area . König, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-86335-179-3 .
  • Photographs 1968-2013 (with contributions by Hans-Michael Koetzle and Durs Grünbein ), Nimbus Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-907142-93-6 .
  • with Andreas Rossmann : With your back to the sea. From a Sicilian diary . König, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-03850031-5 .
  • Times pictures . Foreword Norbert Lammert , afterword Barbara Catoir, Schirmer / Mosel Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3829608770 .

Web links

Commons : Barbara Klemm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Super User: Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain - Committees . In: kulturfonds-frm.de .
  2. ↑ Thomas Steinfeld: Against the passage of time. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Durs Grünbein: The huntress. A laudation to Barbara Klemm . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of February 20, 2010, p. 9.
  4. ^ Institute for Foreign Relations , Nuremberg 2009 Barbara Klemm. Chiaroscuro. Photographs from Germany. ( Memento from May 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Deichtorhallen Hamburg: Deichtorhallen Hamburg: Barbara Klemm - Artist Portraits 1968-2004 . In: deichtorhallen.de . October 19, 2011.
  6. ↑ The eye travels with in: FAZ of September 28, 2009, page B4
  7. ^ Institute for Foreign Relations : Barbara Klemm. Chiaroscuro. Photographs from Germany. ( Memento of the original from May 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ongoing touring exhibition with stations and vita @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ifa.de
  8. ↑ Deep miracles open up in: FAZ from March 20, 2014, page R8
  9. ↑ Jump in time. Erich Salomon. Barbara Klemm ( Memento of the original from May 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ongoing touring exhibition of the Institute for Foreign Relations e. V. with current tour stations and vita @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ifa.de
  10. ^ Information text about the exhibition on the museum website. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 26, 2014 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.museum-kueppersmuehle.de  
  11. ↑ Barbara Klemm. Retrieved May 30, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Barbara Klemm - ORDER POUR LE MÉRITE . In: orden-pourlemerite.de .
  13. ↑ Barbara Klemm - Leica Hall of Fame Award 2012 . In: The Leica Camera .
  14. ↑ Villa Massimo | Barbara Klemm. Retrieved August 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Klemm, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster