Great Moments in Glamour
Photographs of Society, Artists an Fashion in the Twentieth Century
Cecil Beaton, Miss Nancy Beaton, um 1925 Gelatinesilber 30,5 x 25,5 cm ML/F 1984/2 Foto: Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln © Cecil Beaton Archive, Sotheby's Museum Ludwig Köln / Fotografische Sammlung
Cecil Beaton, George Hoyningen-Huene, and Horst P. Horst were among the leading fashion photographers of the twentieth century. Their portraits depicted famous personalities, some-times coolly, sometimes playfully, full of sensuality or imperious distance. These photogra-phers popularized the stars of the film industry, documented the egos of the artists in fashion or presented, often in a surreal atmosphere, the latest fashions for women. They influenced the genre of studio and fashion photography, were innovative in their pictorial inventions, and became role models for the generation that followed them. The photographs shown here are from the collection of L. Fritz Gruber, who was a friend to many of the legendary photographers represented in this selection.
Sternszunden des Glamour
2.2 – 30.10.2011
Opening hours
Tuesday to Sunday:
10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Every first Thursday of the month 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Closed on Monday
Prof. Dr. Bodo von Dewitz
Dienstags und donnerstags um 16 Uhr finden regelmäßig öffentliche Führungen statt.
Additional current Exhibitions
- Modernist Masterpieces. The Haubrich Collection at Museum Ludwig
- Gerhard Richter. Elbe, November, and Other Works
- Saul Steinberg. The Americans
- Phil Collins. In every dream home a heartache
- Andrea Fraser. Wolfgang-Hahn-Prize 2013
