For over four decades, Toni Schneiders created through ordinary means truly extraordinary photographs, and made thereby a decisive contribution to the renewal and expansion of photography in Germany after 1945. He made a name for himself as the founding member of the legendary avant-garde group fotoform (founded in 1949), and is counted among the most important personalities of postwar photography.
Toni Schneiders worked in the tradition of the New Vision (Neues Sehen) movement of the 1920s and 1930s. He understood himself to be not just a „subjective“ photographer working at the intersection of form and object, but also as an observer, as a discoverer of the real, as a portraitist, and as a travel, industrial, and landscape photographer.
Ulrich Pohlmann, director of the Photography Collection at the Münchner Stadtmuseum, from his essay on the photographer, published shortly after Schneiders’ death:
„Toni Schneiders’ imagination and passion
made him one of the best postwar German Photographers.“
Toni Schneiders. Photography 1946–1990.
In cooperation with the Toni Schneiders Estate, we have curated an exhibit containing 113 black and white photographs – a retrospective selection from his complete body of photographic work. It is, for the most part, a collection of vintage prints and large-format fine art prints authorised by Toni Schneiders himself. A number of his photographs are considered classics and have already taken a place in the history of photography.
The exhibition is installation-ready and passepartout-matted and framed in 80 x 60 cm, 70 x 50 cm und 60 x 50 cm formats.
High resolution scans of a variety of motifs are available for press, invitation card, and poster printing needs. Also available on CD as editable documents, in both German and English language, are press materials, photo captions, as well as a personal time line, and upon request, also quotations from Toni Schneiders on his photography and work.
A representative catalogue of Toni Schneiders work (210 pages, 136 illustrations, German/ English, published by Hatje Cantz Verlag) can be ordered at a wholesale price through BUCHSTEINERARTMANAGEMENT.
Further information available upon request.
