Museum of Photography in Braunschweig ( German Museum für Photographie Braunschweig ) - an art museum in the city of Braunschweig ( Lower Saxony ), founded in 1984 and located next to the Museum of the Duke Anton Ulrich ; operated by the Museum für Photographie Braunschweig; thanks to the activities of the director Ulrik Lahmann, the museum has become "the center of international exhibitions and research in the field of modern photography " [1] ; pays considerable attention to the work of local photographers.
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Content
- 1 History and description
- 2 See also
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
- 5 Links
History and Description
The Museum of Photography was founded in Braunschweig in 1984 by local photographers who sought to create a forum for the exchange of experience in the field of creating modern photographic works. Over the next 30 years, discussion continued, the key question of which was the question of the modern view of photography as an object of art. In addition to the main, exhibition, activities, the museum holds related events: such as excursions, artists' performances, reading and film screenings, trying to deepen and complement various aspects of photo activities. The program is complemented by a series of events for children and schoolchildren (including entire school classes) and the activity of publishing catalogs of exhibitions held.
The Museum of Photography is managed by the non-profit association Museum für Photographie Braunschweig, with more than 100 members, whose regular contributions, donations and entry fees allow the organization to function. Various gallery events were made possible thanks to financial support from both the city of Braunschweig and the state of Lower Saxony , as well as from a number of cultural funds and individual sponsors (including the photographers Rollei and Voigtländer ). In addition to the main headquarters in the Torhäuser building, in 2013, in collaboration with the University of Art and Design in Braunschweig, an additional exhibition area for contemporary art and photography, 267 Quartiere für zeitgenössische Kunst und Fotografie, began to function at the museum.
The basis of the museum collection is the “legacy” of local photographers Kete Büchler (1876–1930) and Hans Steffens (1915–1994), as well as Nikolaus Geyer (1968–2005): their archives made it possible to present the history of the development of photography in Braunschweig to a wide audience. . Every two years, the museum holds an exhibition related to the award of the documentary photography prize from the Wüstenrot-Stiftung Foundation in Wüstenroth - the exhibition is held in collaboration with the photographic department of the Folkwang Museum in Essen .
See also
- Deichtorhallen
- Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt
- Museum of Modern Art (MKM) in Duisburg
Notes
- ↑ Herald of Europe . - Publishing house of the magazines "Herald of Europe" and "Open Politics", 2001. - T. 1-3. - S. 240-241. - 764 s.
Literature
- Schupmann Collection: Fotografie in Deutschland nach 1945 . - Braunschweig: Museum für Photographie, 2001 .-- 136 p. - ISBN 9783930292479 . - ISBN 3930292475 .
- Cairo: open city: new testimonies from an ongoing revolution . - 1st ed. - Leipzig, 2013 .-- 230 p. - ISBN 9783940064707 . - ISBN 394006470X .
Links
- Museum für Photographie: Helmstedter Straße 1, 38102 Braunschweig (German) . braunschweig.de . Stadt Braunschweig. Date accessed August 10, 2019.