Seealso:Architectural Photography; Cartier-Bres-
son, Henri; Kesting, Edmund; Man Ray; Moholy-
Nagy, La ́szlo ́; Photogram; Photography in Germany
and Austria
Biography
Born Cologne, Germany, May 19, 1924. Studied photogra-
phy at the Werkkunstschule, Cologne, 1942–1944.
Taught Photography at The Bikla School of Photogra-
phy and Film in Du ̈seldorf, 1950–1955; Free-lance
photojournalist, after 1952; Stage designer, director
and photographer for theaters in Cologne, Bonn, Ham-
burg, Hannover, Vienna, Braunschweig and Kassel,
1961–1967; Organizes the exhibition10 Years of World
Press Photo, 1966; Kulturpreis der Deutschen Ge-
sellschaft fuer Photographie, 1968; Karl-Ernst-Osthaus
Prize, Hagen, West Germany, 1970. Died in Cologne on
New Year’s Eve, December 31, 1971.
Individual Exhibitions
1956 Cologne Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
1958 Galerie Seidee, Hannover, Germany
1971 Meditationsmuehlen (Meditation Mills), Cologne
Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
1972 Hommage a ́Chargesheimer, Kunstverein, Cologne,
Germany
1976 Chargesheimer: Lichtgraphiken, Lichtplastiken, Wil-
helm-Hack-Museum and Staedtische Kunstsammlun-
gen, Ludwigshafen, West Germany
1978 Sander Gallery, Washington D.C., U.S.A.
1980 Unter Krahnenbaumen, Museum Folkwang, Essen,
Germany
1981 Chargesheimer 1924–1972: Fotografien, Goethe-Insti-
tut, Munich and traveling
1983 Chargesheimer: Photographien 1949–1970, Museum
Ludwig Cologne, Germany
1989 Chargesheimer-Personlich (In Person), Museum Lud-
wig, Cologne, Germany
1990 Chargesheimer: 1924–1971, Cologne, Germany
1994 Chargesheimer-Chaos Form Archform, Museum Lud-
wig, Cologne, Germany
1997 Chargesheimer, Menschen wie diese: Photographien aus
den 50er Jahren, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen,
Germany
Group Exhibitions
1949 Photo-Kino, Cologne, Germany, (and every two years
through 1980)
1951 Subjektive Photographie, Staatliche Schule fu ̈r Kunst
und Handwerk, Saarbru ̈cken, Germany
1954 Subjektive Photographie 2, Saarbru ̈cken, Germany
1969 Kunst als Spiel/Spiel als Kunst, Kunsthalle, Recklin-
ghausen, West Germany
1977 Fotografische Ku ̈nstlerbildnisse, Museum Ludwig,
Cologne, Germany
1979 Deutsche Fotographie Nach 1945 (German Photogra-
phy After 1945), Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel Germany
1997 Positionen Ku ̈nstlerischer Photographie in Deutschland
seit 1945 (Positions of Artistic Photography in Germany
Since 1945), Berlinische Galerie, Martin-Gropius-Bau,
Berlin, Germany
1998 Signaturen des Sichtbaren- Ein Jahrhundert der Fotogra-
phie in Deutschland (Signature of the Visible- A Century of
Photography in Germany), Galerie am Fischmarkt,
Erfurt, Germany
1999 Augenblick und Endlichkeit- Das von der Fotografie
gepragteJahrhundert,(InstantandFinite-ACenturyShaped
byPhotography),MuseumLudwig,Cologne,Germany
2000 Kinder des 20. Jahrhunderts: Malerei, Skulptur, Foto-
grafie, Mittelrhein Museum, Koblenz, Germany
2001 Pathos der Sachlichkeit: Industrielandschaft in Meis-
terwerken der Fotografie: (The Pathos of Objectivity:
Industrial Landscapes in Masterpieces of Photography),
Ludwig Galerie SchlobOberhausen, Oberhausen, Ger-
many
Subjektive Fotografie: Der Deutschen Beitrag (Subjective
Photography: The German Contribution), Institut fu ̈r
Auslandsbeziehungen, Institute for Foreign Cultural
Relations, Stuttgart, GermanySelected Works
Ruins, 1947
Musical Reflection (gelatin silver print painting) (Wagner),
1949
Dr. Konrad Adenauer, 1954
Kleines Ma ̈dchen mit Holzroller, 1955
Im Ruehrgebiet, Fussballplatz, 1958
Ford Taunus, 1960
Untitled(gelatin silver print painting), around 1962
North-South Routes, 1969Further Reading
Chargesheimer: Lichtgraphiken, Lichtplastiken, Wilhelm-
Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany, 1976.
Chargesheimer Persoenlich (In Person), Museum Ludwig,
Cologne, 1989.
Albus, Volker. ‘‘Up and Running: Industrial Products and
Advertising,’’ inDeutsche Fotografie. Macht eines Med-
iums 1870–1970, Bramsche, Germany: Rasch, 1997, as
German Photography 1870–1970 Power of a Medium,
edited by Klaus Honnef, Rolf Sachsse, and Karin Tho-
mas, Cologne, Germany: DuMont Buchverlag, 1997.
Bo ̈hmer, Sylvia.Chargesheimer, Menschen wie diese: Photo-
graphien aus den 50er Jahren, Aachen: Suermondt-Lud-
wig Museum, 1997.
Gruber, Renate and L. Fritz Gruber.Das Imagina ̈re Photo-
Museum,Ko ̈ln: DuMont Buchverlag, 1981; asThe Ima-
ginary Photomuseum, translated by Michael Rollof, New
York: Harmony Books, 1982.
Honnef, Klaus. ‘‘From Reality to Art Photography
between profession and abstraction,’’ inDeutsche Foto-
grafie. Macht eines Mediums 1870–1970, Bramsche, Ger-
many: Rasch, 1997, asGerman Photography 1870–1970CHARGESHEIMER