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Barbara Klemm
dal 15/11/2013 al 8/3/2014
Wed-Mon 10-19, closed Tue

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15/11/2013

Barbara Klemm

Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin

Photographs, a grand retrospective of the artist's work spanning five decades and comprising some 300 exhibits covering the whole range of her oeuvre since 1968. Probably no other German female photographer has followed the events of the past few decades as closely with her camera as her. Events of historic significance, encapsulating key images, turning points, and whole epochs.


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Probably no other German female photographer has followed the events of the past few decades as closely with her camera as Barbara Klemm. Her photographs show events of historic significance, encapsulating key images, turning points, and whole epochs. Now, specially for the Martin-Gropius-Bau, the famous photographer has put together a grand retrospective of her work spanning five decades and comprising some 300 exhibits covering the whole range of her oeuvre since 1968: political events, student unrest, citizens’ initiatives, scenes from divided and re-united Germany, everyday situations, and the realities of life from all corners of the earth, as well as sensitive portraits of artists, writers, musicians and visitors to the museum.
A daughter of the painter Fritz Klemm, Barbara Klemm was born in Münster in 1939 and grew up in Karlsruhe, where she trained as a photographer. From 1959 to 2004 she worked for the “Frank­furter Allgemeine Zeitung”. In 1970 she became a staff photographer specializing in politics and the arts. Her first major political event was the negotiation of the treaties with the Eastern bloc between Brezhnev and Brandt. The photo with the unassuming caption “Leonid Brezhnev, Willy Brandt, Bonn 1973” flashed round the world. Apparently unaware of being observed, Brezhnev and Brandt are seen engrossed in talks, surrounded by interpreters and advisers. The photographer’s camera is nowhere in evidence. Klemm has captured an intimate moment which more than any other symbolizes these treaties and the whole political trend of the 1970s. The picture is as remarkable for its immediacy and spontaneity as for its formal and balanced composition.
Klemm has a unique ability to combine the frame and content of a picture with such formal criteria as structure, composition and perspective. Her works generally bear neut­ral captions giving the name, place and date of the event, thus indicating her view of herself as a detached and disinterested observer.
From 1952 to 1999 there appeared the legendary rotogravure supplement of the FAZ, a magazine which came out every Saturday under the title “Bilder und Zeiten” (Pictures and Times), often with cover pictures by Barbara Klemm. The exhibition will feature about 70 of these supplements arranged by theme. They document a period of newspaper history.
Yet Barbara Klemm is not just one of the most significant press photographers of post-war Germany, but also one of the few representatives of her trade who turned photo­journalism into an art in its own right. Her consistently black-and-white pictures are not meant to be ephemeral. They are shot with a feeling for the essence of things that makes them icons of our recent past. Nor is she interested in sensation – her work is more imbued with respect and discretion, with empathy and an unerring feel for the most expressive moment.
Barbara Klemm is curious, especially about people – whether in her press coverage, whose subjects we only do not recognize as portraits because we do not know the persons portrayed, or in the many portraits of artists to which she devoted herself in the 1980s. These are pictures made with detachment which at the same time allow the attitude, work and character of the artist to shimmer through. Barbara Klemm has photographed such renowned artists as Janis Joplin, Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol, Neo Rauch, Gerhard Richter, Richard Serra, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Thomas Bernhard, Herta Müller and Joseph Beuys.
She photographed Beuys in the Landesmuseum Darmstadt and in the Martin-Gropius-Bau in 1982 while engaged in assembling his legendary work entitled “Hirschdenkmäler” (Stag Monuments) for the “Zeitgeist” exhibition. It is a moment of stillness and yet charged with energy that she has captured: the calm before the “lightning flash”. Recognizing such moments is the art of Barbara Klemm.

Parallel to the exhibition freely bookable and public workshops are held for school classes, children and young people aged 5 and over. Public Workshops: Friday 27.12., Sundays 29.12., 12.1., 19.1., 2.3.2014. The workshops begin at 1 p.m. and are free of charge. More information at: www.gropiusbau.de/schuelerprogramm

Advice and booking for guided tours and workshops
MuseumsInformation Berlin
Tel. +49 (0)30 / 24749-888, fax +49 (0)30 / 24749-883
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Catalogue:
Publisher: NIMBUS. Kunst und Bücher Trade edition (in German) € 48 (ISBN 978-3-907142-93-6)

Opening for the press Friday 15 November 2013 at 11

Martin Gropius Bau
Niederkirchnerstrasse 7, Berlin
Open hours: Wednesday to Monday 10 - 19, closed on Tuesdays
Admission: € 9 / reduced rate € 6, admission free for those aged 16 or under, groups of 5 or more € 6 per person / reduced rate: € 4 per person, combination tickets at favourable rates available at the cash desk, online tickets: www.gropiusbau.de
Public guided tours: Sundays at 3 p.m. (without advance booking), More at: www.gropiusbau.de
Booked guided tours: for groups: Guided tours in German (60 min.) € 60 plus € 6 admission per person, for school and student groups (60 min.) € 45 plus € 4 admission per person, for guided tours in other languages: € 10 extra

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