Werner Mantz - Architekturphotographie in Köln 1926-1932 - Museum Ludwig 1982

Werner Mantz (1901-1983) was a prominent architectural and industrial photographer who began his career in the 1920s. As an adolescent, he photographed Cologne and the surrounding landscape and later studied photography at the Bavarian State Academy in Munich. He returned to Cologne, set up a studio and began a freelance career. His work occupies a unique historical position thanks to his visual language, technical prowess and use of natural light. As one of the most important photographers of the New Building movement, Mantz’s oeuvre bridges the gap between the often-anonymous nature of commissioned photography and the modernist­, artistic avant-garde movements of the interwar years, such as the Bauhaus. In the ­1970s, Mantz was even hailed as the ‘missing link’ in the history of international photography, and received public and private commissions throughout his career.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Museum Ludwig Köln, 21.04-13.06, 1982.

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