Klaus Kinold

After studying architecture with Egon Eiermann at the Technische Hochschule in Karlsruhe, Klaus Kinold opened a studio for architecture photography in 1968, working closely with architects such as Karljosef Schattner and Herman Hertzberger. Kinold followed in the Neue Sachlichkeit tradition of architecture representation pioneered by Werner Mantz, Albert Renger-Patzsch, and Hugo Schmölz and also interpreted the historical architecture of such modern masters as Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Mies van der Rohe in a congenial manner. Kinold’s freeform works and panorama photographs predominantly depict urban spaces and landscapes in context.

His first exhibition with Kicken Gallery was as early as 1983, followed by a portfolio edition with ten of his iconic panorama photographs produced together in 1986. Kinold's archive comprises several thousand photographs of outstanding modernist architecture. He himself decided to transfer the archive to a charitable foundation, which has now been established. It has the task of preserving the photographic work as a cultural asset and making it accessible to experts, the public and academics, as well as being a point of contact for all questions relating to the relationship between architecture and photography.