BARBARA KLEMM

This exhibition features around thirty of her landscape portraits from Germany and around the world — from the Allgäu to Lake Plön, from the Mongolian steppe to the Iguazú waterfalls. Each photograph, printed by the artist as a silver gelatin print, showcases her skilful composition and deep connection to the landscapes she captures.

Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Caspar David Friedrich, Georg Friedrich Kersting (...) gaze upon us from Barbara Klemm’s landscape images. The German Romanticism, with its painting and graphics, and its solace, gravity, and abysses, reappears here in a new aesthetic quality.

• Péter Nádas

Barbara Klemm is considered one of the most important photographers in contemporary Germany. She was born in 1939 in Münster, Westphalia, and grew up in Karlsruhe. Since 1959, she worked for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and from 1970 onwards, she served as an editorial photographer with a focus on politics and culture. Her work has received numerous awards, including the Dr.-Erich-Salomon-Preis from the German Society for Photography (1989), the Hugo-Erfurth-Preis from the city of Leverkusen (1989), the Maria Sibylla Merian Prize for female visual artists in Hesse (1998), the Hessian Culture Prize (2000), and the Max Beckmann Prize from the city of Frankfurt am Main (2009). Barbara Klemm is the only woman to have been honored with the Leica Hall of Fame Award (2012). Since 1992, she has been a member of the Academy of Arts Berlin, and in 2010, she was elected to the Order Pour le Mérite. Barbara Klemm lives in Frankfurt am Main.