Kunsthaus Zurich Shows the Marc Rich Collection

published Apr 6, 2008
Kunsthaus Zurich Shows the Marc Rich Collection
From 20 June until 3 August 2008 Kunsthaus Zurich is showing photographs from the Marc Rich Collection.

Predominantly vintage black-and-white prints, these images trace the development of classic art photography since the late nineteenth century.

Donated by its munificent owner to the Kunsthaus in 1989 to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of photography, the Marc Rich Collection forms the backbone of the museum's collection of classic art photography.

It ranges from images by the early pioneers (Henry Fox Talbot, Charles Marville) through the Pictorialism of the Photo Secession (Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen), Straight Photography (Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams), Surrealism, Constructivism and Bauhaus (Man Ray, L�szl� Moholy-Nagy) to the poetic-documentary Realism of the mid-twentieth century (Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank).

This cabinet exhibition is curated by Tobia Bezzola and consists mainly of vintage prints - from the same era as the original shots.

At the same time, it is also a chance for the Kunsthaus to show important examples of classic-modernist photography that have come into the collection since 1989: items such as the group of experimental works by Herbert Bayer that was donated to the Kunsthaus thanks to the generosity of the Dr. Carlo Fleischmann Stiftung.