25.09.2022 — 26.02.2023
Frits Gierstberg, guest curator of the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
Both during his life and after his death, Mantz’s work has been shown fairly regularly in group and solo exhibitions. His work is represented in the collections of more than 30 museums around the world, spread over four continents, including the Bonnefanten, the Nederlands Fotomuseum (Rotterdam, the Netherlands), Museum Ludwig (Cologne, Germany), the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, US), The Museum of Modern Art (New York, US), the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal, Canada), the Tate (London, UK), Centre Pompidou (Paris, France) and the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan). Presentations of his work have been restricted to his German period, or to thematic parts of his extensive oeuvre, and his work has never been exhibited and published cohesively and in its entirety. To date, that is.
Mantz’s photography is also very popular with collectors, and his work nearly always appears at the international art fair Paris Photo.
The exhibition has been realised in collaboration with the Nederlands Fotomuseum and the Werner Mantz Foundation. Special thanks go to the lenders Museum Ludwig and Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne.
The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive publication, entitled Werner Mantz-The Perfect Eye, published by Hannibal Books in collaboration with the Werner Mantz Foundation. It includes texts by Frits Gierstberg, Stijn Huijts, Clément Mantz, Charlotte Mantz and Huub Smeets. The book is available in Dutch, German and English versions from the Bonnefanten museum shop and from online bookshops. Price: € 50 (EN-NL en EN-DE) ISBN: 978 94 6436 673 0.
For the occasion of the exhibition, an exclusive photo print will be available in a limited edition, signed by the Mantz heirs. In combination with the book, the photo print costs € 750 and is available only from the Bonnefanten museum shop, through Hannibal Books and through the Werner Mantz Foundation. It is a unique opportunity for collectors.
For more information about the public program of this exhibition, visit our activities agenda. Here you will find more information about the audio tour and lectures.
Want to learn more about the photography of Werner Mantz? Read about it in the exhibition booklet.
Header image: Werner Mantz, Portrait of a woman, 1935. ©Werner Mantz/Nederlands Fotomuseum