Objective Photography by von Karl Hugo Schmölz
40 vintage prints from the 1930's to the 1950's
27 April to 15 June 2024
The German-French couple Franz and Nadia van der Grinten opened the Van der Grinten Gallery in Cologne in 2002. Their program includes photography, painting, drawing, works on paper, sculpture by German and international young and established artists.
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Artist of the gallery
New Book by Elger Esser “Mont-Saint-Michel”, Schirmer & Mosel Verlag, 2024
Elger Esser’s latest project is dedicated to a highlight of French medieval architecture, the Benedictine abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel in the Normandy mud flats. Commissioned by the French government to celebrate the abbey’s millennium in 2023, he photographed Mont-Saint-Michel and its surrounding landscape and turned it into breathtaking images to be exhibited in the abbey.
Artist of the gallery
02.04.-15.06.2024: Elger Esser “Mémoire Céleste” @ Abbaye du Mont-Saint -Michel
To celebrate the millennium of Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey, Elger Esser has photographed the Mont and the surrounding seascape in all seasons and sea states. The anniversary of this one of the most important sights in France will be accompanied by an exhibition of the photographs by the Franco-German artist on site.
Exhibitions
April 26, 2024
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June 15, 2024
A selection of about 40 original vintae prints by Karl Hugo Schmölz (1917-1986) shows once again the faboulous quality of this master of architecture photography.
February 24, 2024
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April 13, 2024
The current exhibition includes new works from all of Neufanger’s oeuvre and also presents his extensive oeuvre of posters, posters, printed matter and books.
November 18, 2023
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January 28, 2024
For 30 years, Elger Esser has travelled the regions of France searching for archetypical landscapes. In his most recent works the experience of landscape concentrates on the transition from the coastline to the sea and on up into the sky above, with its spectacle of changing cloud formations.
September 2, 2023
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November 4, 2023
In his current exhibition „A Twitter at the Palisades“, the Düsseldorf based artist Lorenzo Pompa brings together his recent works, all created for this stage. The title, as is often with Pompa, has a double meaning which gives rise in our mind to an image at the margin of the unknown, that vast space which we can never dominate.