| | | |  | | | | © Kurt Wendlandt, "Glasscherben I/1", Lichtgrafik, 1964 | | | | | | Material Investigations | | | | 26 September – 10 November 2020 | | | | The exhibition is part of the EMOP Berlin—European Month of Photography 2020 | | |  | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | © Kurt Wendlandt, "Material-Erkundigungen", Lichtgrafik, 1958 | | | | | | With about 40 works, the exhibition is dedicated to the artist Kurt Wendlandt (1917 – 1998) as a light graphic artist. During his work as an illustrator, Wendlandt was confronted in the 1950s with new production-technical printing processes based on film material. Fascinated by this for him new translucent and large-format material, he expanded his experience as a photographer and turned to the techniques of image processing and generating new graphics in the darkroom. With different materials such as film, glass, glue, etc. he composed various small drawings structured in their transparency, which he could insert into his enlarger and project onto photosensitive material for enlargement. Depending on the transparency, the light intensity and the duration of the exposure during the enlarging process, light graphics of different structures were created.
"His rich artistic imagination happily coupled with his joy in experimentation, which allowed him to find his own unmistakable signature in this broad field". (Heinz Hajek Halke) | | | | | |  | | | | © Kurt Wendlandt, "Harpyie", Lichtgrafik, Papiercollage, 1959 | | | | | | | Kurt Wendlandt (1917 Wreschen – 1998 Berlin) was a German painter, graphic artist, author and book illustrator. His work includes paintings, drawings, sculptures, photograms and light graphics, which he developed from 1958. He was the first to discover the possibility of combining film collages with Plexiglas, which makes colored spatial ideas possible. During this time he also met the photographer Heinz Hajek-Halke, from which a friendship developed. Hajek-Halke and Wendlandt belonged to the avant-garde of the Berlin light graphic scene of the 1960s. | | | | | |  | | | | © Kurt Wendlandt, "Glassplitter", Lichtgrafik, 1964 | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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