Harald Hauswald

AI generated: The image shows a group of people walking across a square in the rain with large flags, with a street sign reading "Alexanderplatz" in the foreground. The main content is the movement of the people and the wet, rainy condition.

1. May 1987 | © Harald Hauswald

From 6 July to 22 September, the Leonhardi Museum will be showing works by Berlin photographer Harald Hauswald, including a selection of the legendary black and white views of the inner life of the GDR for which he is known, as well as photographic documents of his many years of work on the subject of the "Elbe" and colour photographs such as those recently published for the first time in the volume "Ferner Osten - Die letzten Jahre der DDR" by Lehmstedt-Verlag.

"Harald Hauswald gained fame as a chronicler of the decline of the GDR, he showed what was, broken by his temperament: empathy, a sense of humour, a go-getting nature. (...) With sarcastic sensitivity, he captured powerful collisions between the aspirations and reality of the SED state, he looked into the cracks and crevices of society, often showing life's shadow creatures. (...) Hauswald's motifs could be seen throughout the GDR: as everyday backdrops. Hauswald's photos were not seen. No newspaper printed them. He was banned. Unlawfully, he had worked for West German journals - "Stern", "Geo" - and thus put his labour at the service of the class enemy."
- CHRISTOPH DIECKMANN - in "Ferner Osten"

Thomas Sonnenburg spoke at the opening on Friday, 5 July at 8 pm.

The artist was present at the opening.

KI generiert: Das Bild zeigt einen leeren Ausstellungsraum mit weiß gestrichenen Wänden, an denen gerahmte Bilder hängen. Der Raum hat einen hölzernen Parkettboden und wird von einem großen Fenster und einer gläsernen Decke beleuchtet.

Biography
Born in Radebeul near Dresden in 1956, Harald Hauswald moved to Berlin in 1977 after training as a photographer. He worked in various jobs and, from 1981, as a photographer for the Protestant Stephanus Foundation. His photographs of everyday life in the GDR were all self-commissioned, and from 1986 he also worked for Western media such as Stern and Geo. In 1990 he was one of the founders of the Ostkreuz agency. in 1997 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit.

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