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FASHION IN COLOUR
Horst P. Horst
Barbara ’Babe’ Cushing Mortimer Paley, dress by Traina-Norell, 1946
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© Horst Estate / Condé Nast / Courtesy of Bernheimer Fine Art Photography

Horst P. Horst »

FASHION IN COLOUR

Exhibition: 5 Dec 2014 – 31 Jan 2015

Thu 4 Dec 18:00 - 21:00

Bernheimer Fine Art Photography

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80333 München

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Tue-Fri 10-18, Sat 11-16

FASHION IN COLOUR
Horst P. Horst
Susann Shaw, 1943
Digital Fine Art Print on
© Horst Estate / Condé Nast / Courtesy of Bernheimer Fine Art Photography

HORST P. HORST
"FASHION IN COLOUR"


Exhibition: 5th December – 31st January 2014

Bernheimer Fine Art Photography presents the exhibition HORST P. HORST – FASHION IN COLOUR in the Munich Gallery, Brienner Straße 7.

This is the third exhibition Bernheimer Fine Art Photography have shown in cooperation with the Horst Estate, Miami, but it is the first public exhibition, along with the Retrospective at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, to display colour photographs by the artist. This exhibition also marks Blanca Bernheimer’s appointment to exclusively represent the Horst Estate in mainland Europe.

Horst P. Horst is one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century and was internationally renowned, particularly for his portrait and black and white fashion photography. He is regarded as a master in the history of fashion photography, and many of his photos, such as Mainbocher Corset (1939), are icons of classic photography.

In 1931 Horst started his artistic career at French Vogue in Paris. The 1930’s were a dynamic and formative decade for the evolution of colour photography. In 1935 Kodak Kodachrome, the first colour photographic film that allowed for rich, nuanced scale of natural colours, was released. Horst immediately took advantage of the possibilities of this new technology to become a successful photographer. He was most prolific from the late 1930’s through to the early 1950’s, shooting over ninety magazine covers for magazines like Vogue, Vanity Fair and American Condé Nast. Many of these cover photos, for example Muriel Maxwell, ensemble by Sally Victor, bag by Paul Flato, sunglasses by Lugene, 1939, Barbara ‘Babe’ Cushing Mortimer Paley, dress by Traina-Norell, 1946 or Jean Patchett, bathing suit by Brigance, 1951 can also be viewed as impressive stand alone photographs. It is these images of famous models and Hollywood actresses wearing the latest designer fashions that manage to convey a sense of effortless style. The photographs’ elegance, spontaneity and fresh poses enhance the glimpse into the American Dream that Horst captured.

Whilst his black and white photography is charaterised by a dramatic use of light and shadow, Horst’s colour photographs juxtapose bold primary colours to create a strong contrast. His compositions make sensational bright, clear photographs that have a timeless quality and appeal, as well as offering a snapshot of American life of the period.

Unlike his famous black and white photographs, Horst’s colour photographs have never been publicly exhibited until now because they remained with the magazines. At the time, photographers gave their Kodachrome film directly to the magazines and did not have the photographs printed separately. Only recently has the Condé Nast archive, founded in the 1920’s, opened its doors to the Horst Estate to choose a selection of the artist’s Kodachromes from the 1940’s and 1950’s for new editions to be printed. These works are considered to be a major discovery and addition to the artist’s oeuvre, as recognised by the Victoria & Albert Museum in their retrospective exhibition and the wide media acclaim this has received.

Now, over half a century after they were taken, these rare colour photographs that not only include fashion photos, such as those at the Victoria & Albert Museum, but additional interior and portrait photography, will be shown for the first time in HORST P. HORST – FASHION IN COLOUR in the Bernheimer Gallery in Munich, Brienner Straße 7.

Biography:

Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann, known as Horst P. Horst, was born on 14th August 1906 in Weissenfels an der Saale. At the end of the 1920s Horst began training as a furniture designer at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Hamburg. In 1930 he travelled to Paris where he briefly assisted in the studio of Le Corbusier and became acquainted with the Vogue photographer Baron George von Hoyningen-Huene. Hoyningen-Huene introduced him to Parisian fashion designers, artists, intellectuals, actors and aristocrats and Horst became his assistant, model and travelling companion. In 1931 Horst shot photographs for American Vogue for the first time, upon the recommendation of Dr. Mehemed Fehmy Agha, former Art Director of the American Vogue. After half a year working in the USA at the invitation of Vogue publisher Condé Nast, Horst returned to Paris where, in 1935, he took over Hoyningen-Huenes position as Vogue’s chief photographer.

In 1937 Horst moved to New York, and applied for the American citizenship. From 1943 onward Horst worked as a photographer for the US Army and was commissioned in 1945 to photograph President Harry S. Truman’s portrait. He subsequently became the official photographer for the following presidents until President Gerald R. Ford in 1974. After his dismissal from the army he worked once more for Vogue in Paris and New York.

He also increasingly worked for House&Garden from 1952 onwards, travelling to Venezuela and Portugal (1967), Guadeloupe and the Bahamas (1970), Mexico, Turkey, Spain and Romania (1972) as well as Santo Domingo, Germany, Morocco and France (1979). Encouraged by Diana Vreeland, editor-in-chief of American Vogue at the time, Horst devoted himself to large photo series portraying the lifestyle of the international High Society from the 1960’s to mid 1970’s. In 1968 Horst and Valentine Lawford published Vogue's Book of Houses, Gardens, People. Meanwhile, Horst worked on his other book, Salute to the Thirties, which portrayed American actresses of the 1930s shot by him and Hoyningen-Huene, which was published in 1971.

In the 1980s Horst intensified his publication and exhibition activity; besides assignments for the English, Italian and Spanish divisions of Vogue and Vanity Fair, in 1984 his friend and associate Valentine Lawford published the biography Horst – B sharp Work and B sharp World. A large retrospective of Horst’s work was exhibited in 1984 at the International Centre of Photography in New York, which was followed by single exhibitions until the end of the 1980s in Venice (1985), London (1986), Munich and Bremen (1987), London, Frankfurt and Hamburg (1988), London, Los Angeles and New York (1989), Houston, Toronto and Atlanta (1990).

Horst P. Horst passed away on the 19th of November, 1999 in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

FASHION IN COLOUR
Horst P. Horst
Loretta Young, NY 1941
Digital Fine Art Print
© Horst Estate / Condé Nast / Courtesy of Bernheimer Fine Art Photography

HORST P. HORST
"FASHION IN COLOUR"

Ausstellung: 5. Dezember 2014 bis 31. Januar 2015
Eröffnung: 4. Dezember, 18-21 Uhr

Dies ist die dritte Ausstellung in Kooperation mit dem Horst Estate Miami/Florida. Wie der aktuelle Ausstellungstitel HORST P. HORST – FASHION IN COLOUR verrät, liegt der Schwerpunkt der diesjährigen Ausstellung auf den Farbphotographien des Künstlers. Parallel zu der gefeierten Retrospektive im Victoria & Albert Museum in London zeigt Bernheimer als erste Galerie weltweit eine Auswahl an Farbphotographien von Horst P. Horst. Zu der großen Retrospektive hat Blanca Bernheimer die exklusive Vertretung des Horst Estates für Europa übernommen (ausgenommen UK).

Horst P. Horst zählt zu den bedeutendsten Photographen des 20. Jahrhunderts und ist insbesondere durch seine unverwechselbaren Mode- und Porträtaufnahmen international bekannt geworden. Er gilt als der Doyen der Modephotographie seiner Zeit, wobei bisher hauptsächlich Horsts schwarz-weiß Photographien im Fokus standen. Darunter finden sich Ikonen der klassischen Photographiegeschichte, wie das Mainbocher Corset aus dem Jahr 1939.

Horsts Karriere als Photograph begann im Jahr 1931 in Paris bei der französischen Vogue. Genau jene Dekade war eine außergewöhnlich formgebende und dynamische in der Geschichte der Farbphotographie des 20. Jahrhunderts. So kam im Jahr 1935 der erste nach einem chromogenen Verfahren arbeitende Farbfilm (Kodak Kodachrome) mit natürlicher und nuancenreicher Farbwiedergabe auf den Markt. Horst P. Horst entdeckte die neuen technischen Möglichkeiten schnell für sich und wurde zu einem der begehrtesten Farbphotographen im Bereich der Mode. Dabei gehörten die späten 30er, 40er und frühen 50er Jahre zu seinen produktivsten Schaffensjahren – für einen seiner Auftraggeber, dem amerikanischen Condé Nast Verlag, Herausgeber der Vogue und Vanity Fair, schuf Horst über neunzig Covermotive. Einige dieser Farbbilder gehören noch heute zu den eindrucksvollsten Photographien des Künstlers.

Darunter die im Rahmen der Ausstellung präsentierten Werke "Muriel Maxwell, ensemble by Sally Victor, bag by Paul Flato, sunglasses by Lugene, 1939" , "Barbara 'Babe' Cushing Mortimer Paley, dress by Traina-Norell, 1946", und "Jean Patchett, bathing suit by Brigance, 1951". In eleganter und doch lässig entspannter, spontaner und frischer Pose, entsprechend den damaligen amerikanischen Vorstellungen, präsentieren die Supermodels und Hollywoodgrößen der Zeit Mode der angesehensten Designer.

Während Horsts schwarz-weiß Photographien durch den dramatischen Einsatz von Licht und Schatten bestimmt werden, setzte der Photograph bei seinen Farbphotographien auf das Nebeneinander von Farbblöcken. Mittels dieses Arrangements kreierte Horst sensationell leuchtende und klare Photographien. Dabei sind die Bilder Zeitdokumente des amerikanischen Lebens und der Mode und zeitlos zugleich.

Im Gegensatz zu seinen schwarz-weiß Photographien wurden die farbigen bisher weder in Ausstellungen noch in Galerien der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht. Denn zur Entstehungszeit der Aufnahmen wurden keine Abzüge von den Bildern gefertigt, da die Kodachrome direkt zum Druck in den Magazinen genutzt wurden.

Erst in jüngster Vergangenheit öffnete das in den 1920er Jahren gegründete Condé Nast Archiv seine Türen, um in Kooperation mit dem Horst Estate eine kleine Auswahl der Kodachrome Horsts aus den 1940er und 50er Jahren auszuwählen und für eine Neuauflage freizugeben. Diese Arbeiten gelten als die größte Neuentdeckung im Oeuvre des Künstlers und wurden in der Ausstellung im Londoner Victoria & Albert Museum weltweit medial bewundert und gefeiert.

Exklusiv kommen jetzt, rund ein halbes Jahrhundert nach Aufnahme der einzigartigen farbigen Modephotographien, auch die Besucher der Ausstellung HORST P. HORST – FASHION IN COLOUR in der Galerie Bernheimer, in den Genuss, diese Bilder in voller Pracht genießen zu können. Zu den fünfundzwanzig Motiven der Ausstellung in London werden noch ein paar überraschende Highlights aus den Bereichen der Interieur- und Portraitphotographie gezeigt, die noch nie zuvor zu sehen waren.

FASHION IN COLOUR
Horst P. Horst
Muriel Maxwell, hat by Lilly Daché, jewellery by Trabert and Hoeffer-Mauboussin, 1940
Digital Fine Art Print on
© Horst Estate / Condé Nast / Courtesy of Bernheimer Fine Art Photography
FASHION IN COLOUR
Horst P. Horst
American Vogue cover, 15 May 1941
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© Horst Estate / Condé Nast / Courtesy of Bernheimer Fine Art Photography