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In the Picture
In the Picture
April 15, 2026
Ellen Auerbach: Renate Schottelius, New York, 1954 (print from 2012)
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026
For the first time in thirty years, the Museum Schloss Moyland dedicates an entire exhibition to photographs from its own holdings. In the Picture encompasses 380 works, over 300 of which have not been presented before.
Visitors are invited to retrace the evolution of photographic portraiture from its beginnings to the present day. The selection includes works by August Sander, René Magritte, Man Ray, Wols, Ute Klophaus, Elina Brotherus and Katharina Sieverding, among many others.
The featured approaches span from the representational, rigidly posed portraits of the 1860s to the 1930s, all the way to the increasingly liberated compositions from the 1920s to the modern day – illustrating how technological advancements have been used for a conscious step towards more artistic orchestrations: the face becomes a canvas, the image an interpretation.
Over a period of fifty years, the brothers Hans (1929–2002) and Franz Joseph (1933–2020) van der Grinten collated over 15,000 photographs (including around 1,300 portraits), which now form the basis of the museum’s collection. The exhibition was curated by Reggy Havekes-van Creij.
Katrin UllmannVisitors are invited to retrace the evolution of photographic portraiture from its beginnings to the present day. The selection includes works by August Sander, René Magritte, Man Ray, Wols, Ute Klophaus, Elina Brotherus and Katharina Sieverding, among many others.
The featured approaches span from the representational, rigidly posed portraits of the 1860s to the 1930s, all the way to the increasingly liberated compositions from the 1920s to the modern day – illustrating how technological advancements have been used for a conscious step towards more artistic orchestrations: the face becomes a canvas, the image an interpretation.
Over a period of fifty years, the brothers Hans (1929–2002) and Franz Joseph (1933–2020) van der Grinten collated over 15,000 photographs (including around 1,300 portraits), which now form the basis of the museum’s collection. The exhibition was curated by Reggy Havekes-van Creij.
Ellen Auerbach: Renate Schottelius, New York, 1954 (print from 2012)
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026
P.M.G.M. van Haaren: Woman’s Portrait, 1890 (print from 1930)
Atelier Rembrandt, Strasbourg: Child with Tennis Racket, c. 1904
Hermann Tietz, Hamburg: Portrait of a standing gentleman with top hat, gloves in hand, and long coat, c. 1900