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Edmund Kesting
German
1892–1970
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Edmund Kesting. Self-Portrait. c. 1925. Gelatin silver print, 11 13/16 x 9 1/8" (30 x 23.2 cm). Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection. © Edmund Kesting Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Digital image: © 2014 Museum Associates/LACMA. Licensed by Art Resource, NY
Meeting Points
- Cultural Hubs Berlin
- Photo Industry Hubs Berlin
- Exhibitions Photographie contemporaine, 1936
Artist Chronology
| July 27, 1892 |
Born
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Dresden |
| 1911–16 |
Studies wood sculpture, carpentry, decorative painting, and restoration at the Kunstgewerbeakademie
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Dresden |
| 1915 |
Enrolls at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste; halts studies due to the war
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Dresden |
| 1915–18 |
Serves as a wireless operator in the German army
At location: Edmund Kesting
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France |
| 1916 |
Solo exhibition at Kunsthandlung Emil Richter
Participant: Edmund Kesting
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Dresden |
| 1917 |
Begins teaching himself photography
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France |
| 1918–22 |
Resumes his studies at Akademie der Bildenden Künste
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Dresden |
| 1919 |
Solo exhibition of his paintings at Galerie Ernst Arnold
Participant: Edmund Kesting
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Dresden |
| 1919–33 |
Founds Der Wegschule für Gestaltung, a private art school, which closes in 1933 with the rise of the NSDAP
At location: Edmund Kesting
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Dresden |
| 1920–21 |
Summer group exhibition at the Dresdner Künstlervereinigung
Participant: Edmund Kesting
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Dresden |
| 1921–23 |
Meets Herwarth Walden and becomes aquainted with the Der Sturm group
At location: Edmund Kesting
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Berlin |
| 1923 |
Solo exhibition at Galerie der Sturm
Participant: Edmund Kesting
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Berlin |
| 1924–25 |
Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstausstellung exhibition
Participant: Edmund Kesting, Oskar Nerlinger
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Moscow |
| 1926 |
Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung
Participant: Edmund Kesting
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Berlin |
| 1926–27 |
László Moholy-Nagy and El Lissitzky encourage Edmund Kesting to become more involved with photography. Kesting begins experimenting with multiple exposures
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Berlin |
| 1926 |
Opens another branch of Der Wegschule für Gestaltung
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Berlin |
| November 19, 1926–January 10, 1927 |
International Exhibition of Modern Art Assembled by Société Anonyme, at the Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn |
| 1927 |
Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung
Participant: Edmund Kesting
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Berlin |
| May–June 1927 |
Das Junge Deutschland at Schloss Bellevue
Participant: Edmund Kesting
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Berlin |
| 1928 |
Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung
Participant: Edmund Kesting
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Berlin |
| 1929 |
Begins using the "sandwich technique"; some credit him for its invention
At location: Edmund Kesting
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Berlin |
| June–September 1930 |
Das Lichtbild exhibition
Participant: Aenne Biermann, Bill Brandt, Max Burchartz, César Domela-Nieuwenhuis, Florence Henri, Lotte Jacobi, André Kertész, Germaine Krull, Helmar Lerski, Walter A. Peterhans, August Sander, Umbo (Otto Umbehr), Edward Weston, Lucia Moholy, Werner Rohde, Franz Roh, Marianne Breslauer, Alexander Hackenschmied, Edmund Kesting, Jean Moral, Willy Zielke, Lore Feininger, Hans Finsler
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Munich |
| Late 1931–early 1932 |
Solo exhibition at Der Wegschule für Gestaltung
Participant: Edmund Kesting
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Dresden |
| 1932 |
Works as an advertising photographer in the photography and automobile industries
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Berlin |
| 1932 |
International Hygiene Exhibition
Participant: Edmund Kesting
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Dresden |
| September 1–October 15, 1932 |
Dresdner Sezession at the Kunstverein
Participant: Edmund Kesting
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Dresden |
| 1933–45 |
When the Nazis come to power, Kesting is prohibited from painting and publishing
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Berlin |
| August 17–October 15, 1933 |
Dresdner Künstlervereinigung at the Deutscher Künstlerverband and Dresden Sezession
Participant: Edmund Kesting
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Dresden |
| 1936 |
Solo exhibition at the Kunstaustellung Kühl
Participant: Edmund Kesting
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Dresden |
| January 16–March 1, 1936 |
Exposition internationale de la photographie contemporaine at Musée des Arts Décoratifs
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Paris |
| March 6–April 13, 1936 |
Mezinárodní Výstava Fotografie at Mánes
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Prague |
| 1937 |
His works are confiscated
At location: Edmund Kesting
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Berlin |
| 1945 |
Receives commercial assignments from the optical industry and for portrait photography
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Dresden |
| 1945 |
Founds the artist group Der Ruf
At location: Edmund Kesting
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Dresden |
| August 25–October 31, 1946 |
Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstausstellung exhibition
Participant: Edmund Kesting, Oskar Nerlinger
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Dresden |
| 1946 |
Supervises the Photographie und Film workshop at the Staatliche Hochschule für Malkunst
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Dresden |
| February–March 1948 |
Dresdner Künstler at Museum der Bildenden Künstler
Participant: Edmund Kesting
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Leipzig |
| 1948–53 |
Professor of photography at the Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst
Dismissed from his position due to his political views on formalism and socialist realism in the German Democratic Republic
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Berlin |
| 1953–56 |
Experiments with photochemical painting; photographs in West and East Berlin
At location: Edmund Kesting
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Berlin |
| October 21, 1970 |
Dies
At location: Edmund Kesting
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Birkenwerder |
