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The Helmut Newton Foundation is celebrating its 20th anniversary in June 2024 with the group exhibition “Berlin, Berlin”, which also pays homage to the city of Newton’s birth. In autumn 2003, the photographer decided to transfer parts of his archive to Berlin after establishing the foundation named after him, which was housed in the former Landwehrkasino at Zoologischer Garten station and opened in June 2004. From that station, Helmut Neustädter, as a Jew constantly threatened with deportation, left Berlin in a hurry at the beginning of December 1938 and returned 65 years later as the world-famous photographer Helmut Newton. Since then, the Helmut Newton Foundation, together with the Art Library, has run the historic building under the name “Museum of Photography”.
Helmut Newton trained in Berlin-Charlottenburg from 1936 to 1938 with the legendary photographer Yva, whom he followed in his later work in the three genres of fashion, portrait and nude. After stints in Singapore and Melbourne, Newton’s real career began in Paris in the early 1960s; during this time he also regularly returned to Berlin to photograph for fashion magazines in particular, including …
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Image above: Harf Zimmermann Palast der Republik, Berlin 2005 © Harf Zimmermann, courtesy Collection de Gambs
