About The Book
At that time, the self-taught woman from Munich was declared crazy. She was looking for a publisher for her idea of photographing the private rooms of normal people. Too banal, it was said. Why should people care about something they had at home? Koelbl had not yet made a name for himself, and nobody knew the people in the pictures either.
But she remained stubborn – one of her most prominent qualities – and when her illustrated book Das Deutsche Wohnzimmer was published in 1980, it fitted seamlessly into the long series of attempts from August Sander to Stefan Moses, the Germans, this self-puzzling people to understand. Zeit-Online (in German)
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About The Artist
Herlinde Koelbl is one of the great German photographers of the present day. In particular, her works stand for her interest in people and their visual transformation influenced by time and circumstances. She is known for her long-term studies of prominent politicians, scientists, and people in business. Among the prominent projects by Koelbl are “Traces of Power. The Metamorphoses of People in Office” (1999) and “Angela Merkel. Portraits 1991-2021” (2021). The 140 photographs of the cycle “Das deutsche Wohnzimmer” / “The German Living Room” (1980) formed a panorama of German living culture in the 1970s.
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Specifics
Herlinde Koelbl: Das deutsche Wohnzimmer / The German Living Room (Bucher Verlag, 1980) | 22 x 24 cm | 143 pages | Softcover | German.
