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IT'S TIME!

Our new website is online.

This week we are testing it in live operation and welcome any suggestions or feedback.

BOOK LAUNCH & EXHIBITION

Andreas Herzau – Gucken. Conversations with Sebastian Lux

From 19 March 2026
as part of the Leipzig Book Fair

F.C. GUNDLACH

You'll Never Watch Alone

From 8 May to 16 August at the Bucerius Kunstforum as part of the 9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg

Preserve. Explore. Share.
The F.C. Gundlach Foundation for Photography

Promoting photography as a cultural asset is the central purpose of the F.C. Gundlach Foundation. Its activities include exhibitions, publications and other projects, as well as scientific research in the field of photography.

With the F.C. Gundlach Collection, the photographic estate of F.C. Gundlach and the image archives of other important photographers, the foundation has an extensive collection of photographic works and materials, which it presents and promotes to the public around the world. This is because "the importance of photography as the basis of modern communication, as a medium of documentation and, in particular, as a medium of art is constantly increasing in our visually oriented society. Photography is one of the most essential and formative achievements of industrial and post-industrial society." (F.C. Gundlach)

FOUNDATION ARCHIVES

Wilfried Bauer

Wilfried Bauer saw as no one else saw. Until his death, the Hamburg photographer created an oeuvre of great quality and diversity.

FOUNDATION ARCHIVES

F.C. Gundlach

F.C. Gundlach's images have become icons of fashion photography with their timeless aesthetics.

FOUNDATION ARCHIVES

Andreas Herzau

From 1990 to 2023, Andreas Herzau photographically examined the world as an attentive observer and, as an interpreter of contemporary phenomena, addressed it in his own aesthetically designed photographs.

FOUNDATION ARCHIVES

Peter Keetman

Peter Keetman's work occupies a central place in post-war German photographic modernism and is characterized by his subjective view and his commitment to graphic design.

FOUNDATION ARCHIVES

Michael Lange

Michael Lange initially photographed reportages for magazines, portraits and advertising shots on behalf of clients before transforming himself into a master of existentialist landscape photography.

FOUNDATION ARCHIVES

Hans Meyer-Veden

Hans Meyer-Veden captured Hamburg, its harbor, the Elbe River, and the surrounding area in its changing landscape, thus writing a chapter of his own city history. Sensitive reportage photographs bear witness to his travels all over the world.

FOUNDATION ARCHIVES

Dirk Reinartz

As the winner of the "Jugend fotografiert Forschung" photography award, Dirk Reinartz was immediately hired by Henri Nannen for Stern magazine – the beginning of a great career in reportage photography.

FOUNDATION ARCHIVES

Toni Schneiders

Toni Schneiders created graphic nature studies and empathetic images of people with high pictorial standards and made a significant contribution to the renewal of photography after 1945.

FOUNDATION ARCHIVES

Werner Stuhler

Werner Stuhler's work is characterized on the one hand by his comprehensive documentation of the country and its people, especially in Central Europe, and on the other hand by his photo-experimental formal language in exchange with artists of the post-war avant-garde.

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FOUNDATION ARCHIVES

Reinhart Wolf

Reinhart Wolf was a key influence on advertising, design and food photography from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Further dates

  • 05.06.2026 – 22.09.2026

    Hamburg Photography Triennial

    The international photography festival takes place every three years in collaboration with Hamburg museums, exhibition venues and cultural institutions. The festival was initiated in 1999 by German collector and photographer F.C. Gundlach.

  • 20.06.2026 – 08.09.2026

    Walter Schels: Photographs 1958 to 2026

    An exhibition by the F.C. Gundlach Foundation at and with C/O Berlin.

  • 12.11.2026 – 15.11.2026

    Paris Photo

    International art fair for photography and image-based art. If you would like to meet us at Paris Photo, please feel free to schedule an appointment.

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