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2026

Eine Hommage an Aenne Biermann
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König

GFZK, 2026
21 x 28 cm, 116 pages, German text
ISBN 978-3-7533-1076-3

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The tribute to Aenne Biermann is surprising, distinctive, and remarkably relevant today. Through juxtapositions, collages, and staged photographs, Heidi Specker enters into a dialogue with the Jewish avant-garde photographer, bringing her artistic legacy into the present.

Specker photographs in Gera, Trieste, and Vienna, in archives, in front of shop windows, and in nail salons. The catalogue explores, through texts by Heidi Specker, Ronya Othmann, and international historians, themes of persecution, loss, and remembrance in relation to her artistic work. In the context of current political developments, these themes are of profound relevance.

Aenne Biermann (1898–1933), one of the most important photographers of the New Vision movement, is today known by only a few. Most of her oeuvre has been lost. Heidi Specker’s work is a moving, personal homage to the photographer and to her avant-garde understanding of the role of the artist: a modern woman who had her working space designed according to her own ideas and wore her hair short.

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Heidi Specker invites the following artists to work artistically on the silkscreen of the historical copperplate print Das Pflanzenreich (1985).

Andrea Büttner, Anna Haifisch, Antje Majewski, Beate Terfloth, Daniela Burger, Dragutin Banic, Erik Swars, Florian Merkel, Gerd Grüneis, Isabelle Fein, Kerstin Drechsel, Laura Horelli, Lina Ehrentraut, Lutz Braun, Marcus Weber, Maximilian Kirmse, Olivier Guesselé-Garai, Peter Herrmann, Peter Lütje, Raaf van der Sman, Sebastian Hammwöhner, Sunah Choi, Susanne Bürner, Tatjana Doll, Ulrike Kuschel, Wawrzyniec Tokarski

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