Stefan Moses

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Stefan Moses (born August 29, 1928 in Liegnitz , Lower Silesia Province ; † February 3, 2018 in Munich ) was a German photographer living in Munich .

Life

Stefan Moses had to leave school in 1943 due to his Jewish origins and survived a forced labor camp. After training as a photographer in Breslau shortly after the end of the Second World War, he worked as a theater photographer at the National Theater in Weimar . He has lived in Munich since 1950, where he first gained notoriety through his reports for Stern . His documentary portraits of people and professions in West Germany (Germans) and later in East Germany (Farewell and Beginning) made him accessible to a large audience. Moses took people out of their work environment and photographed them in front of a gray linen cloth - this created contemporary documents. Stefan Moses also created portraits of numerous personalities such as Thomas Mann , Ilse Aichinger , Erich Kästner , Peggy Guggenheim , Theodor W. Adorno , Otto Dix , Max Frisch and Martin Mayer . An exhibition about his life's work has been on view in various European cities since 2003. In 2017 the grand master of German portrait photography, the Exilmuseum Berlin Foundation, bequeathed 158 large-format portraits of German emigrants . These were recorded between 1947 and 2003. Stefan Moses was married to the artist Else Bechteler-Moses .

Awards

Publications

  • Manuel. Wegner, Hamburg 1967.
  • Trans-Siberian Railway. Prestel, Munich 1979.
  • German. Sixties portraits. Prestel, Munich 1980.
  • Farewell and Beginning - East German Portraits. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 1991.
  • The animal and its human. Sanssouci Verlag, Munich 1997.
  • Everyone is a small society. Prestel, Munich 1998.
  • GDR - the end of the turning point: 200 photographs 1989–1990. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 1999, ISBN 978-3-77579005-5 .
  • Stefan Moses. Schirmer / Mosel, 2002.
  • Ilse Aichinger. A picture book by Stefan Moses. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2006.
  • Who took their liberty. Photographs by Wilfried Bauer, Robert Lebeck, Stefan Moses, Christian G. Irrgang. Damm and Lindlar Verlag, 2008. (Portraits of Ilse Aichinger , Sarah Kirsch and Rose Ausländer .)
  • Germany's emigrants. 2013. Text: Christoph Stölzl . Nimbus Verlag, Wädenswil 2013, ISBN 978-3-907142-85-1 .
  • Encounters with Peggy Guggenheim. Elisabeth Sandmann Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-945543-34-4 . (Compare: Peggy Guggenheim .)

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Eva-Monika Turck: Stefan Moses - Gestural Topography of East Germany . Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-8316-0197-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Stölzl: Photographer Stefan Moses: He showed the Germans how they were - and how they could be . In: THE WORLD . February 5, 2018 ( welt.de [accessed February 5, 2018]).
  2. ^ Central Council of Jews in Germany Kdö.R .: Stefan Moses: Traditionalist of the camera | Jewish general. Accessed February 13, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Gabriele Thiels: The defense of childhood. welt.de, May 21, 2006, accessed on February 6, 2018.
  4. ^ Central Council of Jews in Germany Kdö.R .: Munich: Broken German | Jewish general. Accessed February 13, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Stefan Koldehoff: Stefan Moses: looking for home with the camera . In: The time . No. 07/2018 ( online ).
  6. ^ Lara Doktor: Ilse Aichinger - photographs by Stefan Moses . In: literaturhaus-salzburg.at , accessed on November 8, 2017.
  7. ↑ Lara Doktor: Moses records the time . In: Süddeutsche.de , August 26, 2008, accessed November 8, 2017.
  8. ↑ Alexander Kluy: Broken German . In: Jüdische Allgemeine , June 6, 2013, accessed November 8, 2017.
  9. ↑ Press release, February 27, 2015: Stefan Moses. Lovis Corinth Prize 2014, exhibition at the Art Forum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg. accessed on February 28, 2015.
  10. ↑ http://www.literaturhaus-muenchen.de/ausstellung/items/159/vars/id-2017-stefan-moses.html
  11. ↑ https://www.dhm.de/ausstellungen/das-exot-land.html
  12. ↑ Information text about the exhibition on the museum's website ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museum-kueppersmuehle.de
  13. ↑ Gerlinde Reisach: Franz Hitzler and Stefan Moses can be seen in the Künstlerhaus Marktoberdorf. ( Memento of the original from November 8, 2017 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. . In: das Allgäu online, December 28, 2016. Accessed November 8, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.all-in.de
personal data
SURNAME Moses, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Liegnitz , Lower Silesia Province
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 2018
Place of death Munich