Karlheinz Weinberger

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Karlheinz Weinberger (born June 10, 1921 in Zurich ; † December 10, 2006 there ) was a Swiss photographer. He was also known by the pseudonym "Jim".

Life

Karlheinz Weinberger was born in Zurich in 1921. He attended the literature high school there and began to acquire photography autodidactically. After the end of the Second World War, he worked temporarily as a furniture and carpet seller, but was also unemployed for a long time. From 1955 until his retirement in 1986 he was a warehouse clerk at Siemens-Albis in Zurich. He lived all his life at the same address in Zurich city ​​district 4 . Karlheinz Weinberger died in 2006.

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As early as 1948, Weinberger came into contact with the gay magazine Der Kreis , where he used the pseudonym "Jim". At the celebrations of the circle subscribers he showed his musical talent and was practically the «house photographer». From September 1952 to 1965 his photographs were an integral part of the circle . With around 80 published photos, he had a decisive influence on the homosexual aesthetic until the end of the magazine in 1967 and its successor magazine Club68 . The photographs that Weinberger published under the pseudonym "Jim" show mostly workers and evoke the homoeroticism of simple men.

From 1958 Weinberger began to photograph the thug scene in Zurich. He was interested in rockers and tattooed people . Weinberger was one of the first photographers to receive permission to document the local offshoot of the Hells Angels . Between 1964 and 1976 Weinberger also worked as a freelancer for various sports magazines and specialized in sports reports.

Weinberger took part in various group exhibitions in Zurich, Italy, Israel, Canada and the USA. The first solo exhibition was shown in the photo gallery of the Migros Club School in Zurich in 1980 under the title “The youngsters 1955-1960: 25 years ago, when Zurich became half-strong”. For the first time in 2000, in the exhibition “Halbstark: Photographs by Karlheinz Weinberger” in the Zurich Museum of Design , his homoerotic photographs were also presented to a wider audience and his pseudonym was dissolved.

Since 1963 Weinberger has participated in various international photo competitions and in 1968 won a prize in the competition "50 Years of NIVON Holland".

Weinberger's estate is kept in the Swiss Social Archives in Zurich.

Solo exhibitions

  • 2019: Karlheinz Weinberger , Kornhausforum, Bern
  • 2018: Karlheinz Weinberger or the ballad by Jim , Photobastei, Zurich
  • 2017: Karlheinz Weinberger , Photofestival Mérignac, France
  • 2017: Karlheinz Weinberger , PhotoEspagna, Madrid
  • 2017: Swiss Rebels , Les Rencontres d'Arles, France
  • 2014: Portraits 1962-1986, Maccarone, New York
  • 2013: Karlheinz Weinberger , Soloproject by Rod Bianco Gallery, Oslo at Untitled, Miami Beach
  • 2012: Karlheinz Weinberger , Marc Oliver, Zurich
  • 2012: Intimate Stranger , Kunstmuseum Basel / Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
  • 2011: Intimate Stranger , Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver
  • 2011: Intimate Stranger , The Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York / Anna Kustera Gallery, New York
  • 2011: Halbstarke to Bikers , in Color, Anna Kustera Gallery, New York
  • 2011: Rebellen , cubus-m gallery, Berlin
  • 2011: Rebels , Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France
  • 2008: Karlheinz Weinberger: Vintage Prints: Belt, Jackets, Couples and More , Anna Kustera Gallery, New York
  • 2004: Lehman, Leskiw and Schedler Gallery, Toronto
  • 2003: Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, USA / Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
  • 2002: Karlheinz Weinberger, Lived Life - a retrospective , Schedler Gallery, Zurich
  • 2002: Karlheinz Weinberger, Photos 1954 - 1995 , The Photographers' Gallery, London
  • 2001: Attitude , Scalo, New York, USA
  • 2000: Halbstark , Museum of Design, Zurich
  • 1994: Tattoos of prominent Swiss tattoo artist , Egliswil
  • 1993: Tattoos of prominent Swiss tattoo artist , Anita Dosch Gallery, Zurich
  • 1980: The youngsters 1955 - 1960: 25 years ago when Zurich became half-strong , Photo Gallery Migros, Zurich

bibliography

  • Patrik Schedler: Rebel, Rebel . In: McGuffin - The Life of Things, No 7 (2019) pp. 155 - 160. ISSN  2405-8203
  • Patrik Schedler: Karlheinz Weinberger or the ballad by Jim - a biographical essay . Zurich: Limmat Verlag, 2018. ISBN 978-3-85791-867-4 .
  • Reto Caduff & Rahel Morgen (eds.): Karlheinz Weinberger: Sports, Vol.2, with an interview with Patrik Schedler . Zurich: Sturm & Drang Verlag, 2018. ISBN 978-3-906822-15-0 .
  • Reto Caduff & Rahel Morgen (eds.): Karlheinz Weinberger: Halbstarke, Vol.1 . Zurich: Sturm & Drang Verlag, 2017. ISBN 978-3-906822-14-3 .
  • Esther Woerdehoff (Ed.): Karlheinz Weinberger: Swiss Rebels . Göttingen: Steidl Verlag, 2017. ISBN 978-3-95829-380-9 .
  • Kunstmuseum Basel, Swiss Institute New York & Presentation House Gallery (ed.): Jeans by Karlheinz Weinberger . Toronto: Bywater Bros. Editions, Canada. ISBN 978-0-920293-85-0 .
  • Martynka Wawrzyniak, Patrik Schedler, Bruce Hackney (eds.): "Karlheinz Weinberger: Rebel Youth". with a foreword by John Waters and an essay by Guy Trebay. New York: Rizzoli, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8478-3612-3
  • Patrik Schedler: Karlheinz Weinberger (1921-2006) . In: akut 1 (2007) pp. 22-23. ISSN  1661-0717
  • Ulrich Binder, Pietro Mattioli (eds.): Karlheinz Weinberger: Photos, 1954–1995 . Zurich: Museum für Gestaltung and Andreas Züst Verlag, 2000. ISBN 3-905328-21-6
  • Karl-Heinz Steinle : The circle: members, artists, authors . Berlin: Verlag rosa Winkel, 1999. (Issues of the Schwules Museum; 2). Pp. 28-30. ISBN 3-86149-093-5

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personal data
SURNAME Weinberger, Karlheinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jim (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss photographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 2006
Place of death Zurich