Catalogue new release "Look here! Toni Schneiders"

In February 2020, the F.C. Gundlach Foundation, in cooperation with the Kunstfoyer of the Versicherungskammer Bayern, published the first comprehensive catalogue of the multifaceted oeuvre of Toni Schneiders in Steidl Verlag.

Toni Schneiders is one of Germany's most influential photographers. With his work in the "fotoform" and "subjective photography" movements, he made a crucial contribution to renewing and expanding the visual language of the photographic avant-garde after 1945. In his immediate surroundings in the Alpine foothills and on his travels around the world, Toni Schneiders captured striking moments of reality and life in photographs whose protagonist could be a person, an object, or a landscape. For his precisely composed images, Toni Schneiders found the beauty of graphic form in the simple and familiar. Through deliberate framing and the emphasis on surface and line, contour and structure, he created motifs of great clarity, while simultaneously placing them within a human perspective with humor and empathy. To mark his 100th birthday, the F.C. Gundlach Foundation and the Kunstfoyer Munich are dedicating a retrospective exhibition to this important photographer, rediscovering him as a portraitist, travel, industrial, and landscape photographer.

Toni Schneiders (1920-2006) completed a photography apprenticeship in Koblenz in 1939, immediately after which he was drafted as a war correspondent. In 1948, Schneiders opened a photography studio in Lindau. In 1949, he became a founding member of the "fotoform" group, and his work was widely exhibited both in Germany and abroad, both within this context and in exhibitions on "subjective photography." He published his first travel photographs in Merian magazine and, from 1952 onward, undertook extended journeys to destinations including Ethiopia, Scandinavia, the Mediterranean region, and Southeast Asia. His photographs have appeared in nearly 200 illustrated books.

Look here! Toni Schneiders
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