Engisch version: Exhibition tip June 2024: Helmut Newton Foundation - Homage to Berlin
The big Helmut Newton anniversary exhibition is entitled "Berlin, Berlin!" opened on June 6, 2024 at the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin
Announcement of a Helmut Newton exhibition on the 20th anniversary of Helmut Newton's death
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Since its founding, the Helmut Newton Foundation, together with the art library, has used this historic house under the name "Museum for Photography"
After the death of Newton's wife June, the complete works of the two photographers and all existing archival materials were permanently housed in the foundation's archive - which also manages the image rights of both artists. The Australian photographer June Newton (1923 in Melbourne - 2021 Monte-Carlo) chose the pseudonym Alice Springs for her photographic career.
Escape from Berlin and return after 65 years
The Zoological Garden train station was the last thing 18-year-old Helmut Newton saw of Berlin in December 1938 when he fled and set off for Singapore. After 65 years, the famous and globally revered photographer, who created unique works of photography, returned to Berlin for the first time. The young man had previously completed his photography training in Berlin-Charlottenburg from 1936 to 1938. The legendary photographer Else Ernestine Neuländer-Simon, known as Yva (1900-1944), trained him in the genres of portrait, fashion and nude in her studio, which was to shape Newton's photographic path.
The photographer Helmut Newton died in the year his foundation was founded, on January 23, 2004
In his iconic image ideas, Helmut Newton created his own, even unique, style that focused the view on his visionary ideas
He positioned his models in front of the camera and thereby brought about a new perception of beauty. Helmut Newton became the most published and hotly debated photographer of his era worldwide.
His work combines a view of reality as well as the zeitgeist, cinema and inspiration from art history as a whole.
Newton's innovative "storytelling" has shaped the collective visual memory
His photographs, such as the "Big Nudes" or "They Come" achieve record prices with collectors and are exhibited in photo museums around the world.
In the summer of 2024, the Helmut Newton Foundation will celebrate its 20th anniversary
The Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin is dedicated to the processing and presentation of the photographic work of Helmut and June Newton - who also left behind an important work in photographic history under the pseudonym Alice Springs.
Exhibitions take place every six months at the Berlin Foundation and are loaned to renowned museums and institutions worldwide - including museums in
Amsterdam (Foam), Budapest (Museum of Fine Arts), Genoa (Palazzo Ducale), Houston (Museum of Fine Arts), Milan (Palazzo Reale), Munich (Hypo-Kunsthalle), Paris (Grand Palais), Rome (Palazzo delle Espositioni), Stockholm (Fotografiska), Venice (Tre Oci), Montreal (Museum of Fine Arts) or recently also in A Coruña (MOP Foundation).
Helmut Newton is compared to other renowned photographers in the exhibitions
In dialogue between the works of Helmut Newton and the visual language of photographers such as David Lachapelle and James Nachtwey, with Larry Clark and Ralph Gibson, with Greg Gorman and Frank Horvat, with Mario Testino and Guy Bourdin, with Sarah Moon and Paolo Roversi, with David Lynch and Saul Leiter, with Vanessa Beecroft and Cindy Sherman, with Jürgen Klauke and Viviane Sassen, the photographer Newton remains in the context of current events and his imagery remains in conversation with contemporary photographers.
The Helmut Newton Foundation is part of the Berlin cultural scene and works, for example, with other Berlin art houses, such as in cooperation with C/O Berlin and the Photography Collection of the Art Library. Three photo institutions that form a photo window at Berlin Zoo Station in Germany.
