In 2017 Karl Hugo Schmölz’s birthday will come around again for the one-hundredth time. He is gradually being recognized for the significance of his own architectural photographs and for the history of German photography in general. Which was the occasion to devise an exhibition that shows further aspects of his work against this background. At the Van der Grinten Galerie, in Köln, many visitors will, along with the industrial photos, newly discover those of staged objects and staged scenes with people in them who enliven the architectural “platform”. The show presents a selection of 40 vintage prints from the period, namely the time in which Karl Hugo Schmölz learned the aesthetics of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) from his father Hugo and translated it into postwar modernism, as well as conjuring it into his own distinctive photographic works.
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