Eva Besnyoe
dal 26/10/2011 al 26/2/2012
Segnalato da
26/10/2011
Eva Besnyoe
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
Budapest-Berlin-Amsterdam. This exhibition with 120 vintage prints is the first retrospective of work by the Dutch Grande Dame of photography in Germany. Her photographic creed was oriented on the 'New Vision' which Albert Renger-Patzsch had also propagated in his pioneering publication 'It's a Beautiful World' in 1928. She moved to Berlin in 1930, in 1932 she left the city because she felt threatened by National Socialism. She succeeded in further developing her career in Amsterdam, where she survived German occupation and became a much sought-after photo journalist after the war.
Eva Besnyö’s (1910-2003) photographic creed was oriented on the “New Vision” which Albert Renger-Patzsch had also propagated in his pioneering publication “It’s a Beautiful World” (Die Welt ist schön) in 1928. Having grown up in a bourgeois-Jewish family in Budapest, in 1928 she decided to complete her training in the modern photo studio run by Jozsef Pesci. She moved to Berlin in 1930, and the city of the avant-garde continued to influence her decisively throughout her life. It was here that Besnyö developed her photographic style and, like her Hungarian colleagues – including Moholy-Nagy, Kertesz, Nora Dumas, Ergy Landau and Capa –, she made a decisive contribution to new European photography.
In 1932 Besnyö left Berlin because she felt threatened by National Socialism. She succeeded in further developing her career in Amsterdam, where she survived German occupation and became a much sought-after photo journalist after the war. The modern aesthetics of the 1920s have always remained the yardstick of Eva Besnyö’s photography. This exhibition with 120 vintage prints will be the first retrospective of work by the Dutch Grande Dame of photography in Germany.
The exhibition and catalogue are being made possible with help from the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Image: Eva Besnyö, Narda, Amsterdam 1937 © Eva Besnyö/Maria Austria Instituut
Opening: Thursday, October 27 2011, 7 pm
Berlinische Galerie
Alte Jakobstraße 124-128 - 10969 Berlin
Opening hours:
Wednesday-Monday 10 am-6 pm
closed on Tuesday
closed on 24.12. and 31.12.
Admission:
Day ticket 8 Euro
Reduced 5 Euro
Every 1st Monday of the month: 4 Euro