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Liane Schneider, 33, Ground-Hostess, Deutsche Lufthansa, 1974
from: Germans in Uniform
C-Print, 28,7 x 22 cm
Courtesy the Artist
© Timm Rautert | | | | | | Timm Rautert and the Lives of Photography | | | | 11 March – 16 May 2021 | | | | Visits only with a previous online reservation. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Timm Rautert
New York City, 1969
Gelatine silver print, 27,5 x 28,8 cm
Courtesy of the Artist © Timm Rautert | | | | | | The Museum Folkwang presents a comprehensive retrospective of photographer Timm Rautert’s oeuvre. The exhibition "TIMM RAUTERT AND THE LIVES OF PHOTOGRAPHY" spans five decades of his artistic production: beginning with Rautert’s experimental early work as a student of Otto Steinert, it shows his famous portrait series such as Deutsche in Uniform (Germans in Uniform) or Eigenes Leben (A Life of One`s Own), as well as his artwork collages and his 2015 photographic installation work L’Ultimo Programma. The nearly 350 works illustrate not only the thematic and methodological versatility of Rautert’s oeuvre, but can also be read as documents of photography’s long journey into the museum and the art canon.
Timm Rautert (born in 1941 in Tuchola, then West Prussia) is considered one of Germany’s preeminent contemporary photographers. Over the decades he has succeeded not only in anticipating the most important trends in photography, but has also played a major role in shaping them: as a studio photographer for galleries, as a photojournalist, as a chronicler of changing work environments and, finally, as a university lecturer, he has influenced ensuing generations.
As a student of Otto Steinert at the Folkwangschule in Essen, Rautert quickly developed solid foundations for a committed, social-documentary photography. Alongside this, he explored the fundamentals of photography and developed his "Image- Analytical Photography", which has methodically permeated his artistic work to this day. For Rautert, alternating between applied and artistic elements is not a contradiction, but an expression of resolute photographic authorship. | | | | | | | | | Timm Rautert
Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm GmbH, Ottobrunn, 1989
from: Houses of the Invisible
Digital projection, variable size
Courtesy the Artist © Timm Rautert | | | | | | In 1970, Rautert travelled to the USA and photographed figures such as Franz Erhard Walther, Andy Warhol and Walter de Maria. In Osaka, he documented the World’s Fair and the deeply traditional Japanese society of the time. From the mid-1970s, Rautert worked together with the journalist Michael Holzach on joint reportages for ZEITmagazin. For over a decade he produced social documentary reportages on migrant workers, the homeless, or previously inaccessible communities like The Hutterites (1978) and The Amish (1974).
In the 1980s, Rautert turned to documenting working environments in the automobile and computer industries, creating a long-term chronicle of the transformation of the workplace in the wake of industrial automation. Around 70 photographs from the series Gehäuse des Unsichtbaren (Houses of the Invisible) with photographs of research and manufacturing sites such as the Max Planck Institute (1988) or Siemens AG (1989) are being presented for the first time in a digital double projection, which Rautert developed specially for the exhibition at Museum Folkwang.
In 2008, Timm Rautert was the first photographer to receive the Lovis Corinth Prize for his life’s work.
Catalogue
Steidl Verlag: Timm Rautert and the Lives of Photography
Published by the Museum Folkwang and Bombas Gens.
520 pages, 328 images
ISBN 978-3-95829-928-3 | | | | | | | | | Timm Rautert
Mona Lisa, 2010
Mixed media collage, offset print, cardboard, 80,5 x 63 cm
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