Timm Rautert and the Lives of Photography: Museum Folkwang Dedicates a Major Retrospective to the Essen Photographer

Essen, 9 March 2021. Till 16 May 2021, Museum Folkwang presents a comprehensive retrospective of photographer Timm Rautert’s oeuvre. The exhibition Timm Rautert and the Lives of Photography spans five decades of his artistic production: beginning with Rautert’s experimental early work as a student of Otto Steinert, it shows his famous portrait series such as Deutsche in Uniform (Germans in Uniform) or Eigenes Leben (Own Life), as well as his artwork collages and his 2015 photographic installation work L’Ultimo Programma. The nearly 350 works illustrate not only the thematic and methodological versatility of Rautert’s oeuvre, but can also be read as documents of photography’s long journey into the museum and the art canon.