Look here! Toni Schneiders

Art Foyer Versicherungskammer Bayern, Munich
February 19 - September 27, 2020

Opening: February 18, 2020, 7 p.m.
Entry only with ticket!

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.

A catalogue will be published to accompany the exhibition:
Look here! Toni Schneiders
Edited by Sebastian Lux
Featuring texts by Hans-Michael Koetzle, Sebastian Lux and Franziska Mecklenburg
Steidl Publishing House, Göttingen

A collaboration between the F.C. Gundlach Foundation and the Kunstfoyer Munich

Art Foyer Insurance Chamber Cultural Foundation
Maximilianstr. 53
80530 Munich
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