Das Auge des Arbeiters
Subtitle: Arbeiterfotografie und Kunst um 1930
By: herausgegeben von Wolfgang Hesse für die Kunstsammlungen Zwickau, Max-Pechstein-Museum, das Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln und das Stadtmuseum Dresden, Museen der Stadt Dresden
Contributors: Hennig, Albert, 1907-1998; Stadtmuseum Dresden; Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln; Kunstsammlungen der Städtischen Museen Zwickau. Max-Pechstein-Museum
Publisher: Spector Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leipzig
Language: ger
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9783944669441
Subjects: Social conditions; German Art; Working class; Exhibitions; Documentary photography
Description: During the modernist media revolution of the 1920s, workers photographically recorded their cramped environments, the battles of the labor movement and their consciously theatrical every-day lives for the first time. In a three-year DFG-funded project at the Institut fuür Sächsische Geschichte und Volkskunde, over 5.000 photographs from Saxon collections (Dresden, Zwickau, Leipzig) were assessed in the most extensive and detailed research into this topic to date. The contributions in the book discuss this new image culture and compare the photographs to then contemporary graphic design and painting. An inventory of the 400 photographs taken by Leipzig construction worker and Bauhaus student Albert Henning from the Kunstsammlungen Zwickau forms part of the publication.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Kunstsammlungen Zwickau, Max-Pechstein-Museum, May 23 - August 3, 2014; Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln, August 14 - October 12, 2014; Stadtmuseum Dresden, Museen der Stadt Dresden, March 22 - June 28, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references.