Stefan Moses

Stefan Moses (29 August 1928 – 3 February 2018) [1] was a German photographer living in Munich.

Life

Born in Legnica, Province of Lower Silesia, Moses was forced to leave school in 1943 because of his Jewish heritage and survived a forced labour camp.[2] After training as a photographer in Wrocław shortly after the end of World War II, he worked as a theatre photographer at the Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar. From 1950, he lived in Munich, where he first became known for his reportages for the Stern. His documentary portraits of people and professions in West Germany (Germans) and later in East Germany (Farewell and Beginnings) made him accessible to a large audience. Moses took people out of their working environment and photographed them in front of a grey linen cloth - thus creating contemporary documents. Stefan Moses also created portraits of numerous personalities such as Thomas Mann, Ilse Aichinger, Erich Kästner, Peggy Guggenheim, Theodor W. Adorno, Otto Dix, Max Frisch or Martin Mayer. An exhibition of his life's work has been on display in various European cities since 2003. In 2017, the grand seigneur of German portrait photography, bequeathed 158 large-format portraits of German emigrants to the Stiftung Exilmuseum Berlin. These were taken between 1947 and 2003. Stefan Moses was married to the artist Else Bechteler-Moses.

Awards

Publications

  • Manuel. Wegner, Hamburg 1967.[3]
  • Transsibirische Eisenbahn. Prestel, München 1979.
  • Deutsche. Portraits der Sechziger Jahre. Prestel, München 1980.
  • Abschied und Anfang – Ostdeutsche Porträts. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 1991.
  • Das Tier und sein Mensch. Sanssouci Verlag, München 1997.
  • Jeder Mensch ist eine kleine Gesellschaft. Prestel, München 1998.
  • DDR – Ende mit Wende: 200 Photographien 1989–1990. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 1999, ISBN 978-3-77579005-5.
  • Stefan Moses. Schirmer/Mosel, 2002.
  • Ilse Aichinger. Ein Bilderbuch von Stefan Moses. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2006.
  • Die sich die Freiheit nahmen. Photographs by Wilfried Bauer, Robert Lebeck, Stefan Moses, Christian G. Irrgang. Damm und Lindlar Verlag, 2008. (Portraits of Ilse Aichinger, Sarah Kirsch and Rose Ausländer.)
  • Deutschlands Emigranten. 2013. Text: Christoph Stölzl. Nimbus Verlag, Wädenswil 2013, ISBN 978-3-907142-85-1.[4]
  • Begegnungen mit Peggy Guggenheim. Elisabeth Sandmann Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-945543-34-4. (Vergl.: Peggy Guggenheim.)

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Further reading

  • Eva-Monika Turck: Stefan Moses – Gestische Topographie Ostdeutschlands. Herbert Utz Verlag, München 2003, ISBN 3-8316-0197-6

References

  1. "Christoph Stölzl: Fotograf Stefan Moses: Er zeigte den Deutschen, wie sie waren – und sein konnten. In DIE WELT". 5 February 2018. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  2. Central Council of Jews in Germany K.d.ö.R. (27 August 2008). "Stefan Moses: Traditionalist of the Camera | Jüdische Allgemeine". Retrieved 2018-02-13.
  3. Gabriele Thiels: Die Verteidigung der Kindheit. welt.de, 21. Mai 2006, retrieved 25 January 2021.
  4. Central Council of Jews in Germany K.d.ö.R. (4 June 2013). "München: Gebrochen deutsch | https://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/kultur/gebrochen-deutsch/". Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  5. Stefan Koldehoff (July 2018). Stefan Moses: Heimat mit der Kamera suchend. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  6. Lara Doktor: Ilse Aichinger – Fotografien von Stefan Moses. In literaturhaus-salzburg.at, retrieved 25 January 2017.
  7. Lara Doktor: Moses hält die Zeit fest. In: Süddeutsche.de, 26 August 2008, retrieved 25 January 2017.
  8. Alexander Kluy: Gebrochen deutsch. In Jüdische Allgemeine, 6 June 2013, retrieved 25 January 2021.
  9. Pressemitteilung, 27 February 2015: Stefan Moses. Lovis-Corinth-Preis 2014, Ausstellung im Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg. retrieved 25 January 2021.
  10. "Blumenkinder". www.literaturhaus-muenchen.de.
  11. https://www.dhm.de/ausstellungen/das-exotische-land.html
  12. "Informationstext über die Ausstellung auf der Website des Museums".
  13. Gerlinde Reisach: Franz Hitzler und Stefan Moses im Künstlerhaus Marktoberdorf zu sehen.. In das Allgäu online, 28 December 2016. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
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