FRIEDRICH SEIDENSTÜCKER. LIFE IN THE CITY

OPENING: THU 25.05.2023 | 6 P.M. | ADMISSION FREE
WITH ACOUSTIC ACCOMPANIMENT ON SHELLAC AND VINYL BY KALLE ALDIS LAAR

More than 100 works by the photographer Friedrich Seidenstücker, together with numerous documents from the holdings of the collection of the Ann and Jürgen Wilde Foundation, are being shown in a special exhibition.

Friedrich Seidenstücker (1882–1966) was one of the foremost chroniclers of everyday life in Berlin at the time of the Weimar Republic. His atmospheric works recount casual incidents and events, lighthearted Sunday pleasures and the burdens of the working day, children’s street games and bustling crowds at stations and the zoo. Seidenstücker casts the people and the life of the German metropolis in an impish, even humorous light. His photographs of small tradespeople—coachmen, hawkers, porters, newspaper sellers—pay tribute to the hardship of big-city life, often exposing the contrasts and extremes of inter-war social reality in their backgrounds and on their perimeters.

supported by Herbert-Schuchardt Stiftung

Under the title Collection+, the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungene (Bavarian State Painting Collections) in the Pinakothek der Moderne will be presenting exhibitions within the context of the collection. Presentations of new acquisitions, loans and artist rooms reveal the laborious work involved in gathering, maintaining and researching the collections, shining a light on the scholarly investigations into them and their contemporary relevance.