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Fotostiftung Schweiz
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Jakob Tuggener – The 4 Seasons

10.02.2024–20.05.2024
Fotostiftung Schweiz
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Jakob Tuggener – The 4 Seasons

10.02.2024–20.05.2024
Fotostiftung Schweiz
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The work of Jakob Tuggener (1904­–1988) is well positioned within 20th-century photography. His expressive photographs of glittering ball nights are legendary and his 1943 book Fabrik (Factory) is seen as a milestone in the history of the photo book. However, Tuggener was also captivated by a third subject: simple life in the countryside.

His countless sensitively observed, atmospherically charged, but never picturesque depictions of everyday farming life reflect the cycle of nature, while simultaneously contemplating life and its transience. In 1973/74, Tuggener compiled four individual book maquettes under the title Die 4 Jahreszeiten (The 4 Seasons): unique ready-to-print books, which he designed himself.

In addition to those book maquettes, this exhibition displays other photographs by Jakob Tuggener, which demonstrate how intensively this outstanding photographer devoted himself to the theme of country life for more than 30 years.

In parallel to the exhibition, Die 4 Jahreszeiten will also be presented in a book. In close collaboration with the Jakob Tuggener Foundation and Steidl Verlag, Fotostiftung Schweiz is thus providing new insight into the series of around 70 books that Jakob Tuggener himself considered the centrepiece of his oeuvre, even though they remained unpublished during his lifetime.

Exhibition leaflet

Publication

The exhibition is accompanied by the publication Jakob Tuggener – The 4 Seasons, published by Steidl Verlag, edited by Fotostiftung Schweiz, Jakob Tuggener-Stiftung and Martin Gasser.

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Poster

Exhibition poster Jakob Tuggener – The 4 Seasons, designed by Müller+Hess (Basel), printed by JCM (Schlieren).

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Exhibition views
Ausstellungsansicht «Jakob Tuggener – Die 4 Jahreszeiten», Fotostiftung Schweiz, 2024 © Fotostiftung Schweiz / Conradin Frei