00:00Wir befinden uns hier im Christian Schad Museum in Aschaffenburg.
00:25A part of the building complex comprising the Jesuit Church Art Gallery and the Christian Schad Museum.
00:32Christian Schad is the master of new objectivity and we are proudly able to display some of his major works here.
00:40He was also the inventor of shadow graphs, photograms that he developed in the late 1910s.
00:47You can learn about and see all of this here in Aschaffenburg.
00:55Christian Schad belongs to the most important artists of modernism.
01:05During his lifetime Aschaffenburg ranks alongside the hotspots of the European avant-garde.
01:10Zurich, Geneva, Rome, Vienna, Berlin.
01:16Photography with no camera, Shadography, established his international fame.
01:23Since June 2019, the Christian Schad Museum has been presenting the artist and his work in the context of social developments.
01:31In 1942, Christian Schad came to Aschaffenburg for lucrative public and private commissions.
01:38His Berlin studio was destroyed during the bombing raids of World War II.
01:42But his future wife, Bettina, saved the artworks in a spectacular rescue operation and brought them to him in northern Bavaria.
01:50What was supposed to be a temporary arrangement turned into four decades of life in Aschaffenburg.
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02:19Untertitelung des ZDF für funk, 2017
02:49A church is an art exhibition. Exciting!
03:19A church is an art exhibition.
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