Stefan Moses
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
- 1990: David Octavius Hill Medal
- 1991: Cultural Prize of Honor from the City of Munich .
- From 1994: Member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
- 2001: Honorary award from the Stankowski Foundation * 2004: Federal Cross of Merit (1st class)
- 2014: Lovis Corinth Prize
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)
- 1980: Folkwang Museum
- 2003–2005: retrospective. Photo Museum in the Munich City Museum Kunsthalle Kiel ; Willy Brandt House Berlin; Friedrich Hundt Society in the Münster City Museum ; Art Association Ludwigshafen ; Lower Saxony State Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg; Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn ; State Gallery Moritzburg Halle; German Hygiene Museum Dresden.
- 2007: Ilse Aichinger - photographs by Stefan Moses. Literature House Salzburg
- 2008: Stefan Moses - Munich Life. Munich City Museum
- 2012: Stefan Moses - emigrants. Johanna Breede, Berlin
- 2013: Stefan Moses - Germany's emigrants. Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts , Munich
- 2015: Stefan Moses. Lovis Corinth Prize 2014. Art Forum Ostdeutsche Galerie , Regensburg
- 2016: Stefan Moses - A world theater. Johanna Breede, Berlin
- 2017: Stefan Moses - Flower Children. Literaturhaus Munich
- 2018: Stefan Moses - artist. Johanna Breede PHOTOKUNST, Berlin
- 2019: The exotic land of the German Historical Museum
Group exhibitions (selection)
- 2011: Portraits in series. Museum of Arts and Crafts Hamburg
- 2013: Dressing - Dressing Up. Folkwang Museum
- 2014: Barbara Klemm / Stefan Moses. Küppersmühle Museum for Modern Art , Duisburg
- 2016: New beginnings - pictures from Germany. Willy Brandt House , Berlin
- 2017: Franz Hitzler / Stefan Moses. Künstlerhaus Marktoberdorf
- 2017: looks that last. Photographic portraits from the Fricke Collection. Suermondt Ludwig Museum , Aachen
literature
- Eva-Monika Turck: Stefan Moses - Gestural Topography of East Germany . Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-8316-0197-6
Web links
- Literature by and about Stefan Moses in the catalog of the German National Library
- Exhibition in the German Hygiene Museum Dresden
- Exhibition in the German Historical Museum Berlin with photo examples
- Exhibition at the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts (PDF file; 187 kB) ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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]).
- ^ Central Council of Jews in Germany Kdö.R .: Stefan Moses: Traditionalist of the camera | Jewish general. Accessed February 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Gabriele Thiels: The defense of childhood. welt.de, May 21, 2006, accessed on February 6, 2018.
- ^ Central Council of Jews in Germany Kdö.R .: Munich: Broken German | Jewish general. Accessed February 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Stefan Koldehoff: Stefan Moses: looking for home with the camera . In: The time . No. 07/2018 ( online ).
- ^ Lara Doktor: Ilse Aichinger - photographs by Stefan Moses . In: literaturhaus-salzburg.at , accessed on November 8, 2017.
- ↑ Lara Doktor: Moses records the time . In: Süddeutsche.de , August 26, 2008, accessed November 8, 2017.
- ↑ Alexander Kluy: Broken German . In: Jüdische Allgemeine , June 6, 2013, accessed November 8, 2017.
- ↑ Press release, February 27, 2015: Stefan Moses. Lovis Corinth Prize 2014, exhibition at the Art Forum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg. accessed on February 28, 2015.
- ↑ http://www.literaturhaus-muenchen.de/ausstellung/items/159/vars/id-2017-stefan-moses.html
- ↑ https://www.dhm.de/ausstellungen/das-exot-land.html
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
personal data | |
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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 |