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Visualizing the Thomas Walther Collection

147 artists of the Thomas Walther Collection.
Our networkgraph shows how the artists are connected through exhibitions.
Visualizing Art Networks Click here to open a browser window with the Thomas Walther Collection Artist network visualization.

The Thomas Walther Collection Artists Today

Visualizing the participation in exhibitions since 1930
of the Thomas Walther Collection artists

  The photographic works of the 147 artists reunited in the MoMA exhibition in December 2014 were shown in many exhibitions of galleries, museums, and non-profit venues in many countries since the 1930’s.
  Some artists were shown more often than others, some together, some individually.
Based on thousands of exhibition records this artist-info ‘Visualizing Art Networks’ presentation analysis with an interactive network graph these records showing the appreciation of each of the 147 artists throughout the last 85 years.
  Among them Man Ray, Lászlo Moholy-Nagy, Lyonel Feininger, Walker Evans, Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Kertész, August Sander, Aleksander Rodchenko, Constantin Brancusi, Edward Weston, El Lissitzky, Alfred Stieglitz, Bérénice Abbott, Paul Strand, Edward Jean Steichen, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Karl Blossfeldt, Weegee, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Herbert Bayer, Margaret Bourke-White.

The MoMA ‘Thomas Walther Collection’ Exhibition

  After four years of research and conservation initiative the MoMA, New York, was showing from December 13, 2104 – April 19, 2015 the work of 147 artists in
Modern Photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection, 1909–1949,
including a website with in-depth information, MoMA.org/objectphoto:
  “The outstanding and early selection by collector Thomas Walther represents with the shown work of the 147 artists the innovative vision of the 20s and 30s, a transformative period of modern photography and the foundation of our photo-based world.”
  The collection of Thomas Walther, born 1950, a young German photographer who had moved to New York in 1977 and later became a member of the Museum’s Committee on Photography, joined the MoMA’s collection in 2001 by proposal of former Chief Curator of Photography Peter Galassi.

Exhibition History Records and the Concept for this artist-info project

  Adding important new aspects this artist-info ‘Visualizing Art Networks’ project analysis with the help of an interactive network graph the participation of each of the 147 artists in more than 750 solo- and 1570 group-exhibitions since 1930.
  Go for all details of our survey to visualizingartnetworks.com/twc.

1905 – 1932 Photography Exhibitions

Our survey in June 2015, which covers more than 2.290 solo- and group-exhibitions from 1929 – 2015, begins with the following important exhibitions of a short, but promising period of avant-garde and experimental photography
(Find on the artist-info page of each of the following exhibitions the complete artist list)

 

Modern European Photography

Modern European Photography, Feb – Mar, 1932, Julien Levy Gallery, New York

American Photography Retrospective Exhibition

American Photography Retrospective Exhibition, Nov, 1931, Julien Levy Gallery, New York

Fotografie der Gegenwart

4 of altogether 12 known exhibition venues of this travelling exhibition are part of artist-info database.
Essen, Fotografie der Gegenwart, Jan 20 – Feb 17, 1929, Museum Folkwang, Essen
Hannover, Fotografie der Gegenwart, March 10 – April 17, 1929, Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover
London, Fotografie der Gegenwart, Jun 6 – 29, 1929, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Frankfurt am Main, Fotografie der Gegenwart, Jul 7 – Aug 8, 1929, Frankfurter Kunstverein – FKV, Frankfurt am Main

Film und Foto – Internationale Ausstellung des Deutschen Werkbundes

The list of participating artists is different for each edition.
Stuttgart, Film und Foto, May – Jul, 1929, Ausstellungshallen auf dem Interimtheaterplatz, Stuttgart (Konrad-Adenauer-Straße 3, D – 70173 Stuttgart)
Curator of the Stuttgart exhibition: Gustaf Stotz
Berlin, Film und Foto, Oct 19 – Nov 17, 1929, Im Lichthof des Ehemaligen Kunstgewerbemuseums, Berlin (today: Martin-Gropius-Bau)
Vienna, Film und Foto, Feb 20 – Mar 31, 1930, Österreichisches Museum, Vienna

Das Lichtbild

Das Lichtbild, Jun 5 – Sep 7, 1930, Münchener Bund und dem Verein Ausstellungspark München E.V.
Curator Josef M. Jurinek

Die neue Fotografie

Die neue Fotografie, Jan 11 – Feb 8, 1931, Gewerbemuseum Basel
(today: Museum für Gestaltung Basel)

Fotomontage

Fotomontage, Apr 25 – May 31, 1931, Im Lichthof des ehemaligen Kunstgewerbemuseums
(today: Martin-Gropius-Bau), Berlin

Internationale Ausstellung Kunstphotographischer Meisterwerke

Internationale Ausstellung Kunstphotographischer Meisterwerke, Oct 01 – 31, 1905, Kunsthalle Bremen

Salon d’Automne 1904

Photographie, Oct 15 – Nov 15, 1904, Salon d’Automne 1904 – 2ième Exposition, Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, Paris

  Go for all details of our survey to visualizingartnetworks.com/twc.  

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