Heinz Hajek-Halke
dal 12/12/2007 al 1/3/2008
Segnalato da
12/12/2007
Heinz Hajek-Halke
Museum fur Fotografie, Berlin
Form from Light and Shadow. With his collages and experiments, his nude studies and advertising photographs, the artist belongs to the big names among the pioneers of photography in the 1920s and early 1930s in Germany. He innovatively combined photographs with text and graphic elements.
Heinz Hajek-Halke: Form from Light and Shadow
With his collages and experiments, his nude studies and advertising photographs,
Heinz Hajek-Halke belongs to the big names among the pioneers of photography in the
1920s and early 1930s in Germany. His 'combi-photographs' innovatively combined
photographs with text and graphic elements. A trained graphic designer, Hajek-Halke
had his experimental photographs published in the leading glossies and magazines of
the Weimar Republic. In addition, he designed book covers and adverts.
In 1934, he retired to the Lake Constance region, working as a photographer of
insects and small animals, but after the Second World War he managed to join
avantgarde ranks once more through 'fotoform', a group founded by a number of
younger colleagues. The exhibition presents Heinz Hajek-Halke as an extraordinarily
innovative, inexhaustible inventor of photographic pictures. The technical and
chemical innovations he applied provided the basis for a continuous departure to new
artistic and aesthetic territory.
Opening: Thursday, 13 December, 7 pm
Museum fur Fotografie
Jebensstrasse 2 - Berlin
Tues-Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Sat-Sun 11 am - 6pm