"Donations from Ann and Juergen Wilde's Photographic Collection made to the Sprengel Museum Hannover"
2000-08-06 until 2000-01-02
Sprengel Museum
Hannover, , DE

Ann and Jürgen Wilde's photographic collection has been on permanent loan to the Sprengel Museum Hannover since 1992. The collection comprises some 1,500 photographs by 49 photographers. Mechanism and Expression - 20th century photography, was first presented in its entirety and with an extensive catalogue to a wide audience at the Sprengel Museum Hannover in 1999. Following the exhibition in Hannover, the show will move on to the Fundacio 'la caixa' in Barcelona. The third presentation of the collection will follow in the Kunstmuseum Bonn, opening on 27 September, 2000.

Twenty-seven original photographs from this collection now belong to the Sprengel Museum Hannover. Ann and Jürgen Wilde donated these works as a special 'thanks for the fruitful collaboration over the years and especially for the production and organisation of the Mechanism and Expression exhibition and the catalogue thereof.' Ann and Jürgen Wilde's donations to the Sprengel Museum Hannover include original photographic prints by Bernd and Hilla Becher, Karl Blossfeldt, Alfred Ehrhardt and Albert Renger-Patzsch.

The official ceremony marking this donation took place on 6. August,2000 and a presentation of the collection by Professor Ulrich Krempel opened the event, which Ann and Jürgen Wilde attended. The donated works will be on view until 2 January, 2001 in the Photographic Arts Gallery on the museum's lower level.

The works which will be presented include 3 botanical images by Karl Blossfeldt, a study of 4 gas containers by Hilla and Bernd Becher, 10 nature studies taken in the Kuri Nehrung by Alfred Ehrhardt as well as ten prints from the 'Halligen Sea' series by Alfred Renger-Patzsch. This group of original photographs can be seen to epitomise the tradition of representational, object-based compositions which dominated 20th-century German photography.

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