F. C. Gundlach

F. C. Gundlach (Franz Christian Gundlach; born 16 July 1926 in Heinebach, Hesse) is a German photographer, gallery owner, collector, curator und founder. In 2000 he created the F.C. Gundlach Foundation, since 2003 he has been founding director of the House of Photography – Deichtorhallen Hamburg.

His fashion photographs of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, which in many cases integrated social phenomena and current trends in the visual arts, have left their context of origin behind and found their way into museums and collections. Since 1975 he also curated many internationally renowned photographic exhibitions. On the occasion of the reopening of the House of Photography in April 2005, he curated the retrospective of the Hungarian photographer Martin Munkácsi. Here, the exhibitions A Clear Vision, The Heartbeat of Fashion and Maloney, Meyerowitz, Shore, Sternfeld. New Color Photography of the 1970s from his collection were presented since 2003. Most recently he curated the exhibitions More Than Fashion for the Moscow House of Photography and Vanity for the Kunsthalle Wien 2011.

Biography

The fashion photographer

F. C. Gundlach attended the Private Lehranstalt für Moderne Lichtbildkunst (Private School for Modern Photography) under Rolf W. Nehrdich in Kassel from 1946 to 1949. Subsequently, he began publishing theatre and film reports in magazines such as Deutsche Illustrierte, Stern, Quick and Revue as a freelance photographer.

His specialization in fashion photography began in 1953 with his work for the Hamburg-based magazine Film und Frau, for which he photographed German fashion, Parisian haute couture and fur fashion campaigns. Additionally he photographed portraits of artists such as Romy Schneider, Hildegard Knef, Dieter Borsche and Jean-Luc Godard. For Film und Frau, but also for Stern, Annabelle, Twen and other magazines, F. C. Gundlach has since made fashion and reportage trips to the Near, Middle and Far East as well as to Central and South America. Under an exclusive contract with the magazine Brigitte, he photographed many of the trendsetting fashion pages until 1983, a total of more than 160 covers and 5,000 pages of editorial fashion. In the 1970s and 1980s he worked in South America, Africa, but above all in New York and on the American west coast.

His retrospective solo exhibitions, such as ModeWelten (1985), Die Pose als Körpersprache (1999), Bilder machen Mode (2004) or F. C. Gundlach. The photographic work (2008) were shown in many museums and galleries in Germany and abroad.

Mausoleum Gundlach ("la ultima casa")[1],
Ohlsdorf Cemetery, erected 2008

He is a photographer whose images show the knowledge of the dominant role of fashion as a cultural social factor. For this reason, he rarely presented the phenomena of fashion in isolation, but rather linked them to the phenomenology of everyday reality and placed them in the socio-cultural context from which they ultimately originated. F. C. Gundlach proves to be a photographic artist with a will to style, a mastery of staging and the ability to shape the photographic image at his leisure, who arranges his models in ever new formal constellations: as a photographer of extraordinary aesthetic quality.

— Klaus Honnef

As a fashion photographer who makes use of a recording medium, the photographer must live, think and feel entirely in his time. Fashion photographs are always interpretations and stagings. They reflect and visualize the zeitgeist of the present and anticipate the spirit of tomorrow. They offer projection screens for identification, but also for dreams, wishes and desires. And yet fashion photographs say more about a time than documentary photographs pretending to depict reality.

— F.C. Gundlach

In order to improve the infrastructure for photographers in Germany, he founded CC (Creative Color GmbH) in 1967 and soon afterwards the photographic service company PPS. (Professional Photo Service) with black and white and colour laboratories, equipment shop, rental studios and a specialist bookshop. In 1975 he expanded the company to include the PPS. Galerie F.C. Gundlach, one of the first pure photo galleries in Germany.

In the PPS. Gallery, F. C. Gundlach presented more than 100 exhibitions from 1975 to 1992 by Irving Penn and Richard Avedon, Joel-Peter Witkin and Robert Mapplethorpe, Martin Kippenberger and Albert Oehlen, Nan Goldin and Wolfgang Tillmans, among others. Since the early 1980s, his attention focused on his collection of photographic works and the conception of photographic exhibitions. Many of these exhibitions consisted completely or in parts of his collection, e.g. Das Medium Fotografie ist berechtigt, Denkanstöße zu geben at the Hamburger Kunstverein 1989, Berlin en Vogue at the Berlinische Galerie 1993, Modebilder, Bildermode / Zeitgeist becomes Form for the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (Ifa) 1995, Emotions & Relations at the Kunsthalle Hamburg 1998, Wohin kein Auge reicht at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg 1999 and Mode – Körper – Mode at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg 2000.

After many years as a lecturer, F. C. Gundlach was appointed professor at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin in 1988. As a lobbyist for photography he initiated the Triennial of Photography in Hamburg in 1999.

The founder

In order to create a safe haven for his life's work and his extensive photo collection and to enable the active work with his entire photographic legacy, he created the F. C. Gundlach Foundation in 2000. Its purpose is the promotion of art, science and research in the field of photography, in particular the promotion of photography as a cultural asset.

Since September 2003 F. C. Gundlach is founding director of the House of Photography – Deichtorhallen Hamburg, where he installed his collection The Image of Man in Photography as a permanent loan.

The F.C. Gundlach collection The Image of Man in Photography

The image of man has been topic in photography from the very beginning. The F. C. Gundlach collection attaches special importance to those photographic works that open up new perspectives on human dignity and vulnerability beyond their historical status as visual documents. Photography testifies to the ever-changing visual representation of mankind. A focal point of the collection are therefore photographs that reflect the image of man in his external appearance – in fashions, poses, facial expressions and gestures.

Works of visual artists using photography are of special interest, accentuating the dialogical character of the medium.

Honours and awards

  • Member of the German Society for Photography (DGPh)[2] since 1972, elected to its board in 1976, the Golden Pin of Honour in 1996 and the DGPh Culture Prize in 2001.
  • In 1976 elected to the board of the Federation of Freelance Photo Designers (BFF), honorary board member of the association since 1988.
  • In 1997 Federal Cross of Merit with Ribbon.
  • In 1998 Golden George Eastman Medal for outstanding services to German photography.
  • In 2006 the Hamburg Senate awarded him the Medal for Art and Science for his tireless commitment to photography in Hamburg.
  • In 2008 honorary citizenship of the community of Alheim/Heinebach.
  • In 2011 Hessian Culture Prize.
  • In 2012 Henri Nannen Prize for his life's work.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1951: F.C. Gundlach. Librairie Jean Robert, Paris
  • 1986: ModeWelten, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn; 1986 Neue Galerie Kassel; 1986 Hochschule der Künste Berlin; 1987 Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg; 1988 Kunstverein Frankfurt am Main; 1988 Fotoforum Bremen; 1988 Kunstverein Erlangen; 1989 Neue Galerie des Joanneums Graz; 1990 Goethe-Institut Paris; 1990 Goethe-Institut Nancy; Marseille, Rotterdam
  • 1997: Zeitgeist Becomes Form. American Fine Art New York
  • 1999: Die Pose als Körpersprache, Fotomuseum Braunschweig; 2000 Kunstverein Halle Saale; 2001 Moscow House of Photography; 2001 Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Kunstbibliothek; 2003 Städtische Galerie Iserlohn
  • 2001: F. C. Gundlach – A Passion for Photography. Galerie Kicken Berlin
  • 2004: Sophisticated Lady. Bread & Butter Berlin
  • 2004: Bilder machen Mode. Neue Galerie des Joanneums Graz
  • 2004: F. C. Gundlach – Mode und Porträts. focus Galerie Köln
  • 2005: Die sechziger Jahre. Zephyr – Raum für Fotografie Mannheim
  • 2005: Wählergunst – Wählerkunst. Die kleine Rache des Souveräns. Hühnerposten Hamburg
  • 2006: Color. Galerie Kicken Berlin
  • 2008: F. C. Gundlach. Das fotografische Werk. Haus der Photographie – Deichtorhallen Hamburg
  • 2009: F. C. Gundlach. Das fotografische Werk. Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin
  • 2010: F. C. Gundlach. Das fotografische Werk. Neues Museum Nürnberg
  • 2011: Berliner Durchreise 2011, Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin
  • 2011: The Middle East in the 50s and 60s, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut
  • 2012: F.C. Gundlach. Berlin – Paris. Kulturhaus Osterfeld Pforzheim
  • 2014: F.C. Gundlach in Brasilien – Mode- und Reportagefotografie. Stadtmuseum Nordhorn
  • 2014: F.C. Gundlach. Kunsthaus Alte Mühle, Schmallenberg
  • 2015: On the Wings of Fashion. AbtArt, Stuttgart
  • 2016: 90 Jahre – 90 Bilder. CFA Galerie Berlin
  • 2016: Eyes on Paris. Dear Photography, Hamburg
  • 2018: Around the World in Fashion. Interconti, Düsseldorf

  Quelle: [3]

Group exhibitons (selection)

  • 1975: Fotografie 1929–1975. Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
  • 1979: Deutsche Photographie nach ’45. Kunstverein Kassel
  • 1982: Lichtbildnisse – das Portrait in der Photographie. Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn
  • 1983: Modefotografie der 50er Jahre. PPS. Galerie Hamburg
  • 1985: Aufbaujahre – 3 Photographen: Fritz Eschen, F. C. Gundlach, Otto Borutta. Berlinische Galerie
  • 1985: Das Selbstportrait im Zeitalter der Photographie. Musée Cantonal Lausanne
  • 1985: 50 Jahre moderne Farbphotographie 1936–1986. Photokina Köln
  • 1993: Berlin en Vogue. Berlinische Galerie; 1993 Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg; 1993 Fotomuseum München
  • 1995: Bildermode – Modebilder. Deutsche Modephotographie 1945–1995. Kunstbibliothek Berlin; 1995 Kunsthalle Bremen; 1996 Corgin Gallery Washington; 1996 Boston Art Institute; 1997 Pat Hearn/Morris Healy Gallery New York; Mailand, Rom, Genua, Tokio, Peking, Seoul, Singapur, Nowosibirsk, Omsk, Petersburg
  • 1996: Twen. Stadtmuseum München; 1996 Kunsthaus Hamburg, 2002 Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte Madrid
  • 1997: Someone else with my fingerprints. David Zwirner Gallery New York
  • 1999: Wohin kein Auge reicht. Deichtorhallen Hamburg
  • 2000: Mode – Körper – Mode. Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
  • 2001: Botschafterinnen der Mode. Kunstbibliothek Berlin
  • 2003: Von Körpern und anderen Dingen. City Gallery Prague; 2004 Museum Bochum; 2004 Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin; 2004 House of Photography Moskau
  • 2004: Face to Face. Langhans Gallery Prag
  • 2005: Entrez lentement. Politecnico di Milano
  • 2005: My private Heroes. MARTa Herford
  • 2005: Die fünfziger Jahre – Alltagskultur und Design. Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
  • 2005: Braut Moden Schau. Altonaer Museum Hamburg
  • 2010: The Heartbeat of Fashion as inspired by F. C. Gundlach. Howard Greenberg Gallery New York
  • 2010: Fashion. Story of a Lifetime. Empty Quarter Gallery Dubai
  • 2011: Vanity. Kunsthalle Wien
  • 2013: Vanity. Muzeum Naradowe, Krakau
  • 2014: Three. Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Atlanta
  • 2014: Steel Ikonen. Automuseum Protoyp, Hamburg
  • 2015: Das Medium ist berechtigt, Denkanstöße zu geben. CFA Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

  Quelle: [4]

Literature (selection)

Monographs on F.C. Gundlachs

  • Klaus Honnef (Ed.): ModeWelten. F. C. Gundlach. Photographien 1950 bis heute. Exhib.-Cat. Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Berlin 1986.
  • Benedikt Taschen Verlag (Ed.): F. C. Gundlach – Fashion Photography 1950–1975. Köln 1989.
  • Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Ed.): F. C. Gundlach – Die Pose als Körpersprache. Exhib.-Cat. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Kunstbibliothek, Köln 2001.
  • Landesmuseum Joanneum – Bild- und Tonarchiv (Ed.): Bilder machen Mode – F. C. Gundlach. Exhib.-Cat. Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz 2004.
  • Hans-Michael Koetzle, Klaus Honnef, Sebastian Lux und Ulrich Rüter (Ed.): F. C. Gundlach. The photographic Work. Göttingen 2011.

Publications as editor and curator

  • Gundlach, F. C. (Ed.): Vom New Look zum Petticoat. Deutsche Modephotographie der fünfziger Jahre, Berlin 1984.
  • Gundlach, F. C. und Kunstverein Hamburg (Ed.): „Das Medium der Fotografie ist berechtigt, Denkanstöße zu geben.“ Die Sammlung F.C. Gundlach. Exhib.-Cat. Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg 1989.
  • Gundlach, F. C. (Ed.): Zwischenzeiten, Bilder ostdeutscher Photographen. Hamburg, Berlin, Düsseldorf 1991
  • Gundlach, F. C. und Uli Richter (Ed.): Berlin en vogue – Berliner Mode in der Photographie. Exhib.-Cat. Berlinische Galerie, Tübingen/Berlin 1993
  • Gundlach, F. C. (Concept): Bildermode-Modebilder. Deutsche Modephotographien 1945–1995. Exhib.-Cat. Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart 1995
  • Gundlach, F. C. (Ed.): Das deutsche Auge. 33 Photographen und ihre Reportagen. 33 Blicke auf unser Jahrhundert. Exhib.-Cat. Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg 1996
  • Hamburger Kunsthalle (Ed.): Emotions & Relations. Nan Goldin, David Armstrong, Mark Morrisroe, Jack Pierson und Philip-Lorca diCorcia. Exhib.-Cat. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg 1998
  • Gundlach, F. C. (Ed.): Wohin kein Auge reicht. Von der Entdeckung des Unsichtbaren, Exhib.-Cat. Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg 1999
  • Gundlach, F. C. (Ed.): Mode-Körper-Mode. Photographien eines Jahrhunderts. Dokumente der Photographie 5, Exhib.-Cat. Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Hamburg 2000
  • Gundlach, F. C. (Ed.): Martin Munkácsi. Think while you shoot! Exhib.-Cat. Haus der Photographie – Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 978-3-86521-099-9
  • Gundlach, F. C. (Ed.): Sworn Virgins, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86828-347-1
  • Museum Folkwang and F.C. Gundlach Foundation (Ed.): Peter Keetman. Gestaltete Welt. Exhib.-Cat. Haus der Photographie – Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95829-204-8

Interviews with and articles about F.C. Gundlach (selection)

  • Als die Knef noch in Mode war.... In: fotoMAGAZIN, 11/1983
  • Ulf Erdmann-Ziegler: Aufbau – Schein und Sein. Drei Photographen in der Berlinischen Galerie. In: die tageszeitung, 20. August 1985
  • Hans Scheurer: F. C. Gundlach – Mode-Welten. In: Profifoto, 4/1986
  • Peter Sager und Timm Rautert: Die Schönen aus der Dunkelkammer. In: Zeit-Magazin, 15/1989
  • 30 Jahre inszenierte Wirklichkeit. Die Geschichte des Modefotografen F.C. Gundlach. In: foto-scene, 1/1990
  • Milan Chlumsky: Sehnsucht nach Sinn. Als Stiftung: Gundlachs Hamburger Modefotografie-Sammlung. In: FAZ, 18. November 1991
  • Margit Tabel-Gerster: Hamburger Persönlichkeiten. Hamburg 1994
  • Friedrich Carl Piepenburg: Der Charme der frühen Jahre. In: Merian Extra
  • Foto-Termin ohne Kamera.. In: art, 6/1996
  • Leiden und Leidenschaften eines Sammlers. In: Peter Weiermair (Ed.): Aspekte und Perspektiven der Photographie, Regensburg 1996
  • Entscheidend ist, ob ein Bild mich reizt. In: Michael Koetzle (Ed.): Das Foto-, Kunst- und Sammelobjekt, Augsburg 1997
  • Ich bin mein eigener Produzent. In: Phototechnik international, 3/1997
  • Christiane Wettig: Beruf mit ungeheurer Nicht-Anwesenheit. In: Welt am Sonntag, 25. April 1999
  • Sammler, Stifter, Anstifter. In: schwarzweiss, 27, 11/2000
  • Michael Koetzle: Der unermüdliche Promoter. In: Phototechnik international, 4/2001
  • Dem Auge die Uniform ausziehen. In: art, 2/2002
  • F. C. Gundlach. In: Tout va bien, 2/2002
  • Gestatten: Mister Fotografie. In: art, 4/2002
  • F. C. Gundlach. Über das Entdecken – Sammeln – Bewahren. In: Designers Digest, März 2003
  • Ed Hirsch: Discovery: F.C. Gundlach. In: American Photo, März/April 2003.
  • Motiv: Mensch. In: art, 11/2003.
  • Timo Scherer: Die Wirkung ist das Entscheidende. In: Deutsch Magazine, 01
  • Matthias Gretzschel: Star-Fotograf im Abendblatt-Interview. F.C. Gundlach: Ein Bild von einem Mann. In: Hamburger Abendblatt, July 19. 2011.
  • Holger Liebs: Romy oder Hilde? Interview in: Monopol, November 2015, p. 73f.
  • Annette Stiekele: Ein Leben für die Fotografie und das Sammeln. In: Museumswelt, Hamburg, September 2016, p. 9.
  • Grandseigneur der deutschen Fotografie. In: art, July 14. 2016.
  • dpa: Grandseigneur der deutschen Fotografie. F.C. Gundlach wird 90. In: Monopol, July 16. 2016.
  • Karin Schulze: Genies unter sich. Zu seinem 90. Geburtstag öffnet F.C. Gundlach seine fotografische Schatzkammer. In: Vogue, 2016, No. 12, p. 154, Heft.
  • Pianeta Eros. In: Glamour Italia, No. 286, März 2016.
  • Uta Baier: Die Sammlung F.C. Gundlach. „Collecto-Holic“ mit Weitblick. In: ArsPrototo. Das Magazin der Kulturstiftung der Länder, 2/2016
  • Katharina Pfannkuch: Dem Meister ganz nah. In: Welt am Sonntag, November 26. 2017, Artikelanfang.

Film

  • F. C. Gundlach – Meister der Modefotografie. Dokumentary, Deutschland 2017, 26:09 Min., Buch und Regie: Eva Gerberding, Production: NDR, arte, premiere February 11. 2018 at arte, Inhaltsangabe von ARD.

References

  1. ↑ quote F. C. Gundlach
  2. ↑ https://www.dgph.de/english/what-is-the-german-photographic-association DGPh
  3. ↑ Ausstellungen. In: fcgundlach.de.
  4. ↑ Ausstellungsbeteiligungen. In: fcgundlach.de.
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