| | | | | | | | | © Alfred Ehrhardt | | | | | | | New Publication | | | | 100 years bauhaus I | | | | | | | Exhibition: 12 January - 18 April, 2019 | | | | Book Launch + Opening: Friday, 11 January, 2019, 7pm | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | © Alfred Ehrhardt | | | | | | | | | New Publication | | | To commemorate both the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus’s foundation and the exhibition opening, Alfred Ehrhardt – Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations, the Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation are pleased to launch the photobook, Alfred Ehrhardt – Photographs. Additionally, a special linen-slipcase edition of 30 is also on offer, which includes one platinum/palladium print.
Alfred Ehrhardt is regarded as an outstanding representative of German avant-garde photography. He merged the photographic movements of New Objectivity and New Vision through his cropped compositions and serial rhythmisation of image structures. His photographs isolate the natural form from its concrete context and abstract the composition, often employing high-contrast lighting to achieve dramatic results. Committed to Bauhaus’s structural vision, he chose graphic lines of light to emphasise the surface structure and materiality of the subject. It is no coincidence that Ehrhardt was named the "natural philosopher with a camera" in the 1930s.
Ehrhardt's photographs are nature photographs in the broadest sense. Across seven chapters, this photobook details Ehrhardt's central themes, including a selection of renowned images of the mudflats, the Curonian Spit, crystals, shells and snails, corals and sponges, microphotographs and landscapes in compositional stringency, iconic of his style. The publication assembles 176 photographs of exceptional beauty, breathtaking diversity and masterful distinctiveness. | | | | | | | | | | © Alfred Ehrhardt | | | | | | Alfred Ehrhardt – Photographs
23.5 x 30.5 cm, 232 pages
176 illust. (Duplex)
Half-linen hardcover
Publisher: Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation
Texts: Christiane Stahl, Stefanie Odenthal (German/English)
ISBN 978-3-00-061051-6
39.80 €
Linen-slipcase edition
Alfred Ehrhardt, Structures in the Sand, Curonian Spit, 1934
Platinum/palladium print on Arches cotton rag paper, stamped, numbered, mounted, 28.8, x 37.9 cm
Edition: 30
Subscription price of 550 € until March 31, 2019, thereafter 650 €
The handcrafted, high-quality platinum prints by Jens Knigge are characterised by the depth of the infinitely rich grey tones in the handmade paper and correspond in their silvery tonality to Alfred Ehrhardt’s original 1930s prints with utmost perfection. | | | | | | |
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Ohne Titel (Abstrakte Komposition), 1930
Tempera auf Holz (Masonit)
44 x 36 cm
© Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung | | | | 100 years bauhaus I | | | | | | | Exhibition: 12 January - 18 April, 2019 | | | Curators: Stefanie Odenthal M.A., Dr. Christiane Stahl
On the occasion of the Bauhaus Centenary the Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation will show four exhibitions, which explicitly will be Bauhaus-themed. We will start with the exhibition Alfred Ehrhardt—Painting, Drawing, Prints that focuses on Ehrhardt not as a photographer, but as a painter and graphic artist. A special focus will be on his work dating from his Bauhaus period, which is being presented in Berlin for the first time since his solo exhibition at Meisterhaus Schlemmer in Dessau in 2007.
On the occasion of the Bauhaus Centenary the Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation will publish the retrospective catalogue Alfred Ehrhardt – Photographs, which will be accompanied by a limited special edition of 30 analogue platinum prints in cloth-bound slipcases and presented at the opening.
In Dessau during the winter semester of 1928–29 Alfred Ehrhardt got to know the Bauhaus masters Josef Albers, Oskar Schlemmer, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Lyonel Feininger, who had a deep impact on his artistic work as well as his future teaching activities.
His abstract compositions, created in tempera on masonite, elucidate the “material sensitivity” that Ehrhardt acquired through a focused study of nature’s manifestations and laws – as taught at the Bauhaus. | | | | | | | | | Alfred Ehrhardt
Ohne Titel (Abstrakte Komposition) undatiert
Tempera auf Holz (Masonit)
41,4 x 41,4 cm
© Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung | | | | | | Using various tools such as spatulas or the tip of his brush to create his paintings, he incorporated the structure of the painting ground, producing an interplay of filigree line frameworks and impasto color surfaces. Only on occasion can a concrete figuration in his painted collages be made out from the geometric elements, such as a Paul Klee-like standing figure, or a Kandinsky-esque cosmic landscape.
In addition, the exhibition will show graphic works and drawings, in which Ehrhardt among others draws on his reserve of simplified animal motifs. Highly simplified are also his one-line drawings like the drawing of a female figure or a head. Ehrhardt summarized his teaching experiences in the book Gestaltungslehre (1932), where he described the significance of physical material as "a living, expressive condition (...) in an organic sense, i.e. in a creative sense."
In 1931, his artistic work was presented in a solo exhibition at the Kunstverein in Hamburg. It was the only exhibition of his paintings during his lifetime, before he turned to photography and film as a result of his dismissal from his university teaching position by the National Socialists. His body of work comprises approximately 120 paintings, drawings, and graphic work, which are now property of the foundation, but in parts remains in the care of the family. The exhibition Alfred Ehrhardt—Painting, Drawing, Prints, thus, offers a rare possibility to see this part of his work, which is otherwise inaccessible to the public. | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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