FC Gundlach Foundation
| FC Gundlach Foundation | |
|---|---|
| legal form | charitable foundation |
| founding | 2000 |
| founder | FC Gundlach |
| Seat | Hamburg |
| motto | collect - preserve - present |
| main emphasis | Photography, culture and education |
| Action space | worldwide |
| Employees | 4th |
| Website | www.stiftungfcgundlach.de |
The non-profit foundation FC Gundlach is a legal foundation under civil law. It was launched on March 8, 2000 by the photographer and collector Franz Christian Gundlach (* 1926) and is based in Hamburg .
Mission statement
The foundation is dedicated to promoting art and culture as well as science and research in the field of photography, in particular the promotion of photography as an artistically and socially important cultural asset. In fulfilling the purpose of the foundation, it maintains and presents the FC Gundlach collection as well as the photographic work of the founder and a large number of photographic bundles, endowments and bequests.
In close cooperation with the House of Photography in the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, founded by Gundlach in 2003 , which manages the core holdings of the FC Gundlach Collection on the 'Image of Man in Photography' with around 8,500 exhibits, the foundation develops exhibitions, photo books and projects and guarantees this the constant examination of their holdings.
Bodies
The foundation bodies consist of the executive board and the foundation council .
Projects
As an operational foundation, the foundation concentrates on projects it has initiated itself. Since its foundation, in addition to many exhibitions from the collection, the exhibitions A Clear Vision (2003) and The Heartbeat of Fashion (2006) for the Haus der Photographie Hamburg, More Than Fashion for the Moscow House of Photography (2011) and Vanity for the Kunsthalle Wien (2011) with another station in the National Museum Krakow (2013).
After its opening in 2005 at the Haus der Photographie Hamburg (2005), the exhibition Martin Munkacsi - Think while you shoot was also shown in the Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin (2006), the International Center of Photography New York (2007), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2007), the Moscow House of Photography (2010), the Ludwig Museum Budapest (2011) and the Kunstfoyer Munich (2012).
The exhibitions Images Make Fashion for the New Gallery of the Joanneum Graz (2004), FC Gundlach , arose from the founder's oeuvre . The photographic work for the Haus der Photographie Hamburg (2008) with further stations in the Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin and the Neues Museum Nürnberg , Berliner Durchreise 2011 in the Galerie Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin (2011) and The Middle East in the 50s and 60s in the Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut. This is followed by On the Wings of Fashion (2015) at Galerie AbtArt Stuttgart, 90 Years - 90 Pictures (2016) at Contemporary Fine Arts CFA Berlin, Eyes on Paris (2016) at Dear Photography Hamburg and most recently Around the World in Fashion (2018 ) at the InterContinental Düsseldorf.
Archives
In addition to the oeuvre of its founder, the FC Gundlach Foundation looks after the works of four other important German photographers - Wilfried Bauer ( 1944-2005 ), Peter Keetman ( 1916-2005 ), Werner Rohde (1906-1990) and Toni Schneiders (1920-2006) .
Together with the Deutsche Fotothek Dresden , the FC Gundlach Foundation also designed the archive of photographers , which began its work in September 2012 and, as a contact, analog archive and digital shop window, takes responsibility for our cultural heritage in the form of photographic works and bequests.
With the exhibition Peter Keetman. Gestelte Welt (2016) was the first to show a comprehensive retrospective by photographer and fotoform member Peter Keetman at the Museum Folkwang Essen . In autumn 2016, further positions followed with the House of Photography Deichtorhallen Hamburg and the Art Foyer Munich (2017).
In addition to the archives, the FC Gundlach Foundation manages important photographic bundles, including a. that of Konrad Helbig , the 2018 in the LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn in cooperation with the same and the Deutsche Fotothek Dresden as part of the exhibition series From the Archives, a first comprehensive work show entitled Konrad Helbig. On the Mediterranean. Photographic exploration was devoted.
The cooperation between the FC Gundlach Foundation, the Deutsche Fotothek Dresden and the LVR-Landesmuseum continues in the exhibition [Return] Photography in the Weimar Republic (2018) as part of the Hamburg Triennale in the Altona Museum .