From September 14 to 29, 2024, we will be showing photographs by Ludwig Glaeser and steel objects by Hans Leo Simons in a double exhibition.
The exhibition will open on Friday, September 13, 2024 at 7 pm in the presence of Hans Leo Simons at Galerie Am Elisengarten.
Ludwig Glaeser (Berlin 1930 - 2006 New York) studied architecture and art history in Darmstadt, his home city of Berlin and in Rome. He moved to the USA in 1963 and worked as a curator for architecture at New York's MoMA from 1965 to 1977. Among other things, the Mies van der Rohe Archive there can be traced back to his initiative.
“I learned to see architecture as I had learned to draw it - floor plan, section, elevation. I tried to photograph architecture in the same way: just as if I were drawing an elevation. The result is more an emphasis on lines and surfaces than the modulation of space through light and shadow.”
We are showing a series of strictly limited black and white architectural photographs of famous buildings by Mies van der Rohe in Germany and America, taken in the 1970s.
Hans Leo Simons, born in Aachen in 1966, is a trained blacksmith and master designer. Since 1995, exhibitions and competitions at the Museum of Applied Arts Cologne, Deutsches Klingenmuseum Solingen, Haus der Kunst Munich, Museum of Art and Cultural History Dortmund, Egyptian Museum Munich, Kunsthalle Cloppenburg and many more.
In 1993 and 2023 he was awarded the NRW State Prize.
