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Munich art foyer shows Magnum photographer Inge Morath: a woman's weapon

2023-01-11T14:37:58.886Z


Munich art foyer shows Magnum photographer Inge Morath: a woman's weapon Created: 01/11/2023 15:33 By: Katja Kraft Dreamy: Marilyn Monroe filming "Misfits", 1960. At that time she was still married to Arthur Miller. © Inge Morath/ Magnum Photos/ Clairbykahn The Kunstfoyer Munich celebrates the great photographer Inge Morath. She was the first woman to be included in the legendary photo agency


Munich art foyer shows Magnum photographer Inge Morath: a woman's weapon

Created: 01/11/2023 15:33

By: Katja Kraft

Dreamy: Marilyn Monroe filming "Misfits", 1960. At that time she was still married to Arthur Miller.

© Inge Morath/ Magnum Photos/ Clairbykahn

The Kunstfoyer Munich celebrates the great photographer Inge Morath.

She was the first woman to be included in the legendary photo agency Magnum.

A show worth seeing!

The head cinema starts within seconds.

Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe, Inge Morath.

First he loves her, then his heart jumps over to her.

The great man of letters (1915-2005) was on the set of "Misfits", the film adaptation of one of his short stories, with his then wife Monroe (1926-1962) in 1956.

The pictures that were taken during the shooting are one of the highlights of the photo exhibition that can currently be seen in the art foyer in Munich.

You don't have to know that the marriage between the writer and the actress would not last much longer - you can feel it when you look at the incredibly sensitively captured black-and-white photos.

The woman who pulled the trigger is Inge Morath, Arthur Miller's future wife.

But first and foremost she was: a great artistic personality.

The curators Anna-Patricia Kahn and Isabel Siben have Morath and Miller's daughter Rebecca describe their own mother on a wall text.

She paints the portrait of a smart, thoughtful, generous and soulful woman.

"She was fearless.

She was a mother with fierce determination.

And she was a tremendous artist,” writes Rebecca Miller about Inge Morath – the first photographer to join the legendary and until then all-male circle of the Magnum photo agency.

The reason becomes completely clear as you walk through the exhibition.

Is it the female gaze that makes these pictures seem so intimate, melancholic, enchanted?

Or is it the life story that shaped the artist?

Probably a mixture of both.

Born in Graz in 1923, Inge and her parents - both natural scientists - soon moved around Europe again and again, they worked in different laboratories and universities.

So the girl went to French schools, probably the foundation for her great talent for languages.

“Her self-discipline was legendary.

She learned Russian and Chinese well enough to be able to read poetry and converse in both languages ​​before attempting to penetrate those cultures as a photographer,” her daughter recalls.

crazy!

Inge Morath took this llama photo in New York in 1957. © Inge Morath/ Magnum Photos/ Clairbykahn

But like so many unbearably in Inge Morath's year, her carefree childhood soon came to an end.

In the 1930s the family moved to Darmstadt.

Rebecca Miller, herself a writer like her famous father, aptly describes her mother's life in Germany: "She had been forged in a cauldron of abysmal evil, had lived in the hottest part of hell - Nazi Germany - and was left with lifelong internal scars to have looked into the belly of the monster.” She found her sword to defeat this monster in art.

In 1937 Inge visited the Nazi exhibition "Degenerate Art".

She immediately fell in love with Franz Marc's Blue Horse.

But only negative comments were allowed - "thus began the long period of silence and concealment".

Photography later gave her back her language.

Henri Cartier-Bresson encouraged Inge Morath

How much Inge Morath must have loved photography.

You can feel it when you see the life-affirming portraits in which she is beaming with her camera.

They are pictures from the 1950s that show a beautiful woman with a smile that is still captivating 70 years later.

Most of these pictures, which show Inge Morath herself, say “photographer unknown”, but in some cases the name Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) reveals that the depicted belongs to the crème de la crème of photographic art.

Cartier-Bresson and Gjon Mili (1904-1984) are said to have competed to become their mentor.

The equally great Robert Capa (1913-1954) once discovered her and encouraged her to trust in her talent.

And so Morath's photographs take us on a journey through time through Spain, France, Russia, China, again and again: New York, New York.

She captured the intellectual elite, who was part of this world through her husband, in everyday situations;

captured all the movie stars of their time.

But the most beautiful are the pictures of completely normal people;

of workers and nuns, of mothers and fathers, of the vain and the weary, of the young and old.

The full life.

head cinema on.

Until May 1, 2023 in the Kunstfoyer, Maximilianstraße 53;

daily, 9.30 a.m. to 6.45 p.m., free entry, access only with online ticket, these are available here

Source: merkur

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