Klaus Kinold: Hans Döllgast and Rudolf Schwarz.

At the focus of the first exhibition jointly conceived by aut and the Archiv für Baukunst stands the Munich-based photographer, architect and designer Klaus Kinold (b. 1939), who has been documenting postwar modernism in Germany for many decades. The creative accomplishments of Hans Döllgast (1891–1974) and Rudolf Schwarz (1897–1961) occupy a central role in his work. Fascinated by their materially restrained architecture that is strongly oriented to the space as well as the atmosphere, Klaus Kinold devoted himself from the early 1980s on out of empathy for these “master builders of the other modernism,” who—contrary to the representatives of so-called “radical modernism”—followed a restrained and, in a certain sense, conservative approach.

An insight into the subtle work of Hans Döllgast and Rudolf Schwarz, which is once again relevant today, is provided in the exhibition spaces of aut. The main emphasis in the Archiv für Baukunst lies on the extensive creative work of Klaus Kinold. Two German-language publications with photos by Klaus Kinold and texts by Wolfgang Jean Stock are appearing in Hirmer Verlag in conjunction with the exhibition: Hans Döllgast: Schöpferische Wiederherstellung and Rudolf Schwarz: Kirchenbauten.

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