Stefan Moses

Stefan Moses (29 August 1928 – 3 February 2018) was a German photographer living in Munich.

Life Born in Legnica, Province of Lower Silesia, Moses was forced to leave school in 1943 because of his Jewish heritage and survived a forced labour camp. After training as a photographer in Wrocław shortly after the end of World War II, he worked as a theatre photographer at the Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar. From 1950, he lived in Munich, where he first became known for his reportages for the Stern. His documentary portraits of people and professions in West Germany (Germans) and later in East Germany (Farewell and Beginnings) made him accessible to a large audience. Moses took people out of their working environment and photographed them in front of a grey linen cloth - thus creating contemporary documents. Stefan Moses also created portraits of numerous personalities such as Thomas Mann, Ilse Aichinger, Erich Kästner, Peggy Guggenheim, Theodor W. Adorno, Otto Dix, Max Frisch or Martin Mayer. An exhibition of his life's work has been on display in various European cities since 2003. In 2017, the grand seigneur of German portrait photography, bequeathed 158 large-format portraits of German emigrants to the . These were taken between 1947 and 2003. Stefan Moses was married to the artist .

Awards 1990: David Octavius Hill Medal 1991: Cultural Honor Prize of the City of Munich 1994: Member of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste in Munich. 2001: Ehrenpreis der 2004: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (I. Klasse) 2014:

Publications Manuel. Wegner, Hamburg 1967. Transsibirische Eisenbahn. Prestel, München 1979. Deutsche. Portraits der Sechziger Jahre. Prestel, München 1980. Abschied und Anfang – Ostdeutsche Porträts. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 1991. Das Tier und sein Mensch. Sanssouci Verlag, München 1997. Jeder Mensch ist eine kleine Gesellschaft. Prestel, München 1998. DDR – Ende mit Wende: 200 Photographien 1989–1990. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 1999. Stefan Moses. Schirmer/Mosel, 2002. Ilse Aichinger. Ein Bilderbuch von Stefan Moses. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2006. Die sich die Freiheit nahmen. Photographs by Wilfried Bauer, Robert Lebeck, Stefan Moses, Christian G. Irrgang. Damm und Lindlar Verlag, 2008. (Portraits of Ilse Aichinger, Sarah Kirsch and Rose Ausländer.) Deutschlands Emigranten. 2013. Text: Christoph Stölzl. Nimbus Verlag, Wädenswil 2013. Begegnungen mit Peggy Guggenheim. Elisabeth Sandmann Verlag, 2017. (Vergl.: Peggy Guggenheim.)

Solo exhibitions 1980: Museum Folkwang. 2003–2005: Retrospektive. Fotomuseum in Munich Stadtmuseum Kunsthalle Kiel; Berlin; Friedrich-Hundt-Gesellschaft in ; ; State Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg; Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn; Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle; Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden. 2007: Ilse Aichinger – Fotografien von Stefan Moses. 2008: Stefan Moses – Münchner Leben. Münchner Stadtmuseum 2012: Stefan Moses – Emigranten. Johanna Breede, Berlin January 2013: Stefan Moses – Deutschlands Emigranten. Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, Munich 2015: Stefan Moses. Lovis Corinth Prize 2014. Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, Regensburg 2016: Stefan Moses – Ein Welttheater. Johanna Breede, Berlin 2017: Stefan Moses – Blumenkinder. Literaturhaus München 2018: Stefan Moses – Künstler. Johanna Breede Photokunst, Berlin 2019: Das exotische Land Deutsches Historisches Museum 2020: das Tier und sein Mensch. Johanna Breede Photokunst, Berlin

Group exhibitions 2011: Portraits in Serie. Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg 2013: Kleiden – Verkleiden. Museum Folkwang 2014: Barbara Klemm/Stefan Moses. Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg 2016: Aufbrüche – Bilder aus Deutschland. , Berlin 2017: /Stefan Moses. 2017: Blicke, die bleiben. Fotografische Porträts aus der Sammlung Fricke. Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen