ANNETTE KELM: THE BOOKS by Annette Kelm - Art Photography Monograph for Collectors & Contemporary Art Lovers

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Annette Kelm2020Museum Frieder BurdaSalon Berlin2022Kunsthalle zu KielDie BücherThe Books19331945

19335Bertolt BrechtAlfred DöblinHeinrich HeineFranz KafkaElse Lasker-SchülerKlaus MannThomas MannKarl MarxKurt Tucholsky





In Die Bücher, the Berlin-based artist Annette Kelm explores books that fell victim to defamation campaigns, persecution and bans imposed by the National Socialist regime between 1933 and 1945.

With her precise, simple photographic presentation, Kelm creates a new or ongoing public platform for the works of once ostracised writers, illustrators, and publishers, and of the extraordinary artistic and literary diversity of the Weimar Republic and the period before it. At the same time, Kelm transfers this subject matter into the current time.

Her work touches on pressing issues about the value and fragility of democratic models of society, the need to protect freedom of expression and intellectual and artistic diversity, and the potential threats posed to these values by right-wing forces.