F.C. Gundlach / Architecture

As part of the Fotopark Forchheim 2024 photo festival, the exhibition F.C. Gundlach / Architectures can be seen from 6.9. - 31.10.2024 in the Pfalzmuseum in the Kaiserpfalz.

F.C. Gundlach captured buildings from Berlin to Beirut, using them in his photographs as a cultural basso continuo from near and far. His works exhibited in Forchheim demonstrate the use of architecture as a design element in a particularly striking way: swimwear in front of the Great Pyramids of Giza, an extreme wide-angle perspective in front of the Ernst-Reuter-Platz subway station (a flagship of "New Berlin" ), a Falke dress at the foot of the Temple of Ramses II, a smart sheath dress against the backdrop of Oscar Niemeyer's newly built Brasília. F.C. Gundlach masterfully combines the model with the background.

The wide-angle perspective , Biggi in costume by Uli Richter, Berlin / Ernst-Reuter-Platz 1963

F.C. Gundlach captured more than four decades of fashionable and social change in his photographs, from the return of elegance and glamour in post-war Germany to the liberating surge of free-spirited, emancipated fashion in the 1960s. Above all, however, the motif of travel stands as a fitting metaphor for F.C. Gundlach's life and work: On location, he encounters novel architectural backdrops in one shoot after another, for example in Giza, Paris, or Brazil.

F.C. Gundlach / Architectures – an exhibition by the F.C. Gundlach Foundation as part of the Fotopark Forchheim festival program

September 6 to October 31, 2024
Palatinate Museum, Kapellenstraße 16, 91301 Forchheim