Swiss Images of Winter
Swiss Images of Winter
February 2, 2019
Werner Bischof, Girls, St. Moritz, Schweiz, 1948
© Werner Bischof Estate/Magnum Photos
A highlight of the exhibition Winter in Swiss Photography are the vintage prints by Albert Steiner (1877-1965) from the Kaspar Fleischmann Collection, never shown publicly before and unmatched in their quality and uniqueness. Steiner is followed chronologically by winter pictures of important exponents of Swiss photography: Werner Bischof (1916-1954), René Burri (1933-2014), Arnold Odermatt (*1925), René Groebli (*1927) and Philipp Giegel (1927-1997) and the Swiss-French photographer Sabine Weiss (*1924), who lives in Paris.
These icons of Swiss photography are juxtaposed with more recent positions: for example, Douglas Mandry’s unique photographic specimens (photographic lithographs on a glacier cloth) or Sandro Diener’s landscapes (*1975).
The exhibition is rounded off with photographs by established Swiss photographers: Robert Bösch (*1954), Guido Baselgia (*1953), Daniel Schwartz (*1955) and Bernd Nicolaisen (*1959). They all know how to translate the breathtaking beauty and existential boundaries of alpine regions into exceptional photographs.
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Werner Bischof, Girls, St. Moritz, Schweiz, 1948
© Werner Bischof Estate/Magnum Photos
René Burri, Man with a circular saw blade, Trogen, Switzerland, 1956
© RB Photos /Magnum Photos
Philipp Giegel, Horse racing on the frozen Obersee, Switzerland, 1955
© Philipp Giegel, Esther Woerdehoff Paris