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- Influence of the Bauhaus on Japanese Photography
Influence of the Bauhaus on Japanese Photography
4.14 Sun. 13:00—14:30
Ryosokuin
[ENG / JP]
Free
Alfred Ehrhardt, Bodenriffelungen / Ripple marks in the ground, 1933–37 © bpk / Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung
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Join the Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation Director Christiane Stahl and photo critic Kotaro Iizawa as they explore the influence of the Bauhaus on Japanese photography. Followed by an introduction of the KYOTOGRAPHIE exhibition by the curator Sonia Voss.
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, KYOTOGRAPHIE presents the first Japanese exhibition of Alfred Ehrhardt (1901-1984), a major photographic artist of the German avant-garde.
Composer, painter, and filmmaker, as well as photographer, Ehrhardt studied at the Bauhaus in 1928-29. Dismissed from his teaching post by the National Socialists, he moved to the North Sea in 1933, where the natural structures of the tidal flats inspired his first series of photographs: “Das Watt” (“The Tidelands”). Series on Crystals, Shells, Corals and other natural forms followed. Looking back to the German Naturphilosophen and scientists of the 19th and early 20th centuries who studied the geometry of nature, Ehrhardt’s photographs also evince the principles of the Bauhaus in their focus on composition, materiality, rhythm, and movement.
Join the Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation Director Christiane Stahl and photo critic Kotaro Iizawa as they explore the influence of the Bauhaus on Japanese photography. Followed by an introduction of the KYOTOGRAPHIE exhibition by the curator Sonia Voss.
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, KYOTOGRAPHIE presents the first Japanese exhibition of Alfred Ehrhardt (1901-1984), a major photographic artist of the German avant-garde.
Composer, painter, and filmmaker, as well as photographer, Ehrhardt studied at the Bauhaus in 1928-29. Dismissed from his teaching post by the National Socialists, he moved to the North Sea in 1933, where the natural structures of the tidal flats inspired his first series of photographs: “Das Watt” (“The Tidelands”). Series on Crystals, Shells, Corals and other natural forms followed. Looking back to the German Naturphilosophen and scientists of the 19th and early 20th centuries who studied the geometry of nature, Ehrhardt’s photographs also evince the principles of the Bauhaus in their focus on composition, materiality, rhythm, and movement.
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- Christiane Stahl
- Born in 1963 in Mannheim / Germany. Studied art history at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris and at the Freie Universität (FU) in Berlin, as well as theatre, film and media studies at FU Berlin. Worked since 1991 for German History Museum Berlin, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Dresdner Hygiene Museum, Galerie Karsten Greve Cologne. Since 2002 founding director of the Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation in Cologne. 2005 PhD at FU Berlin about Alfred Ehrhardt‘s early photographic work. 2008-2014 Corporate Vice President of the German Photographic Society. 2010 moves the Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation to Berlin. Since then member of the board of advice of the European Month of Photography. Curatorial works, publications, lectures, jury-activities, portfolio-viewings with focus on modern and contemporary photography.
- Sonia Voss
- Sonia Voss is the curator of "Alfred Erhardt: The Forms of Nature" in this year's Kyotographie. Recently, she curated "Sophie Calle, Serena Carone. Beau doublé, monsieur le marquis !" at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris (2017-2018); "Anton Roland Laub: Mobile Churches" at locations in Berlin, Paris, and Arles (2017-2018); "Josef Koudelka: Invasion. Exiles. Wall" at C/O Berlin (2017, in collaboration with Xavier Barral); and "George Shiras. L’intérieur de la nuit" at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (2015-2016). Upcoming exhibitions include the first large-scale exhibition in France on the photography of the former East Germany (Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles 2019). Voss has edited books at Xavier Barral, Filigranes, and Kehrer Verlag. She lives in Berlin and Paris.
- Kotaro IIzawa
- Iizawa is a photography critic born in Miyagi in 1954. In 1977, he graduated from Department of Photography, Collage of Art, Nihon University,Tokyo. In 1984, he finished his doctorate in Department of Fine Arts from Tsukuba University, Ibaraki. His mejor writings include: Shashin bijutsukan e yokoso [Welcome to Photo Museum] (Kodansha, 1996), Dejigurafi: Dejitaru wa Shashin o Korosuka? (Chuokoronsha, 2004), Shashinteki Shikou (Kawade Books, 2009), Onnanoko Shashin no Jidai (NTT Publishing, 2010), Kinoko Bungaku Meisakusen (MinatoNoHito, 2010), Fukayomi: Nihon Shasin no Chomeisaku 100 (Pie International, 2012), and Gendai Nihon Shasin Archive 2011-2013 (Seikyusha, 2015). Yomu Gendai Nihon Shashin (Film Art, Inc., 2017)
- Ryosokuin
- 591, Komatsu-cho, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, 605-0811
Keihan Line “Gion-shijo” station. 7 min on foot from exit 3
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