(c) Photo of photo: Martin Reinhart
Ludwig Wittgenstein – Fotografie als analytische Praxis
An exhibition visit at the Leopold Museum with a curatorial tour by Verena Gamper
With Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), the exhibition revolves around one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century,
whose roots lay in an upper middle-class family that contributed significantly to the development and promotion of Viennese
modernism. However, the focus is not on his groundbreaking philosophical writings or their radiance on the visual arts, but
on Wittgenstein the photographer - the author, collector and arranger of photographs. The focus is thus on a sideline that
has received little attention to date, and which is analysed here for the first time in detail and with a broad concept of
the photographic.
In addition to the previously only partially published photo album from the 1930s, the famous composite portrait of the Wittgenstein siblings, the automaton photos and other staged self-portraits, as well as the photographs of the house designed for Margarete Stonborough-Wittgenstein together with Paul Engelmann, the exhibition also includes excerpts from the Nonsense Collection and a representative selection of his picture postcard correspondence with family and friends, which reveals a practice of communicating that always reflects the pictorial level of this medium. Against the background of his reflections on photography, which extend to his plan to write a "Laocoon for Photographers", this quantitatively manageable stock of material invites us to make Wittgenstein's understanding and use of the medium fruitful for a contemporary re-vision.
www.mqw.at/programm/ludwig-wittgenstein
In addition to the previously only partially published photo album from the 1930s, the famous composite portrait of the Wittgenstein siblings, the automaton photos and other staged self-portraits, as well as the photographs of the house designed for Margarete Stonborough-Wittgenstein together with Paul Engelmann, the exhibition also includes excerpts from the Nonsense Collection and a representative selection of his picture postcard correspondence with family and friends, which reveals a practice of communicating that always reflects the pictorial level of this medium. Against the background of his reflections on photography, which extend to his plan to write a "Laocoon for Photographers", this quantitatively manageable stock of material invites us to make Wittgenstein's understanding and use of the medium fruitful for a contemporary re-vision.
www.mqw.at/programm/ludwig-wittgenstein
Wittgenstein - Leopold Museum Visit
Ludwig Wittgenstein – Fotografie als analytische Praxis
December 13, 2021
Location
Leopold Museum, Vienna
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Team
- Martin Reinhart (Organizer)