B/w photographic portraits of writers and painters between 1958-2004. The exhibition counts 50 photographs from the archives of the German photographer Barbara Niggl Radloff (Berlin, 1936). Exquisite testimonies by an individual and natural view which gives a beautiful image of two different periods, 1958-1962 and 1986-2004. The black and white portraits in the world of writers, philosophers visual artists and scientists are time documents of exceptional quality.
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B/w photographic portraits of writers and painters between 1958-2004
The exhibition counts 50 photographs from the archives of the German photographer Barbara Niggl Radloff (Berlin, 1936). Exquisite testimonies by an individual and natural view which gives a beautiful image of two different periods, 1958-1962 and 1986-2004. The black and white portraits in the world of writers, philosophers visual artists and scientists are time documents of exceptional quality. It is just one aspect of her work that is represented in this exhibition because of the 9th Dordtse Book Market on Sunday 4 July (the greatest in the Netherlands).
Among the portrayed are: Hannah Arendt(1906 -1975), philosopher writer; Ingrid Bachér (geb. 1930), writer; Heinrich Böll (1917-1985) writer; Truman Capote (1924-1984) writer; Rui Chafes (geb 1966) sculptor; Otto Dix (1891-1969), painter; Thea Harmed (geb. 1970) writer; Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921- 1990) writer; Hans Magn. Enzensberger (geb. 1929) writer; Laszlo Foldenyi (geb. 1952) analyst/ writer; Max Frisch (1911-1991) writer; Günter Grasses (geb. 1927) writer, painter; Boris Groys (geb. 1947), professor technique, art filo media; Dorothea Grünzweig (geb. 1952) writer; Wilhelm Herzog (1884-1960), writer; Wolfgang Hilbich (geb. 1941) writer poet; Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) philosopher, writer; Chenjerai Hove, zimbabwe (geb. 1954) writer; Eugene Ionesco (1909-994), writer; James Jones (1921–1977), writer; Asger Jorn (1914 –1973), painter; Oleg Jurjew (geb 1959) writer; Erich Kästner (1899 –1974), writer; Imre Kertész (geb. 1929), writer; Sara Kirsch, (geb. 1935) poet; Wolfgang Koethe (geb. 1952), painter; Annette Kolb (1870 – 1967) writer; Carlo Levi (1902 – 1975), painter, writer; Georges Matthieu, (geb. 1921) painter; Andre Maurois (1885-1967), writer; Hans Platschek (1924-2000), painter, writer; John B. Priestly (1894-1984), writer; William Saroyan (1908-1981), writer; Antonio Skarmeta (geb. 1940), writer; Hamid Skif (geb. 1951), writer; Ljudmila Ulitzkaja, (geb 1943), writer; Guntram Vesper (geb. 1941) writer; Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), writer; Tilly Wedekind (1886-1970), actress, writer; Irvine Welsh (geb. 1958) writer.
Barbara Niggl (Berlin, 1936)
1938 /' 39 moves studies gets the human to Munich, Feldafing.
1956 - '58 photography with Hans Schreiner at the Institut für Bildjournalismus, Munich; already during her training they tasks of the Süddeutschen Zeitung.
1958 in the frame of 800 year Munich becomes a series lectures organized, at which with international known writers and actors participate, that she portrays as independent artist.
1958 -' 62 is Barbara one of the little women that much asked becomes. Her clients its Süddeutschen Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung That Zeit hire and many other periodicals as a Tern, Brigitte, Quick, Kristall, Twen, of the Mirror; also younger person periodicals as a rear race Jugend unter dem Wort Impulse etc. that her for reportages. Actual also always in Art and culture periodicals to see as a Magnum, Kultur, Konkret
1961 marries Günter Radloff. After some years it appeared that household and the education of 3 children cannot be combined with her profession and she puts her cameras down.
1977/ 86 She picks up again her Mamyia, Leica and Nikon.
1986-2004 second period. Barbara photographs 'artists in residence' who alternate each other in Künstlerhaus 'Villa Waldberta', in Feldafing.
From 1996 on solo exhibitions of her work except for Germany also in England, France, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, India, Mexico and now for the first time in the Netherlands.
Preview: SATURDAY 3rd of JULY (tel./fax: 00 31 (0) 78 6148850)
Start: Sunday the 4th of July from 12.00 –17.00 hours
For information, appointment or preview Saturday July 3:
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Galerie IN VORM
Schrijversstraat 7
3311 BP Dordrecht