Dahlia Grugapark Essen, Germany

Abwärts

underground station // essen rüttenscheid

tile art and the underground, two things that are inseparable for me. although the station is from the late eighties, the pattern could also be from the post-war era.

Tales from my enchanted wasteland…. 

Komm, komm, komm, komm, Komm nach Hagen, werde Popstar, mach dein Glück!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9A01sVP3uM

In 1979, at the age of 24 and while still a student at Folkwang School Essen, Joachim Brohm set out to document the semi-private architecture of the Schreber gardens, the German equivalent to the allotment garden named after the physician Moritz Schreber. Likely inspired by the Bechers’s typologies of industrial architecture Brohm shows the often hand-built houses crowning in all of their variety: sometimes a mere hut, sometimes quite elobrate small houses these buildings and their surrounding gardens are the extended living rooms of their lodgers. Set against the neutral grey sky of the German winter Brohm approaches the houses from the gardens' gates and documents the various forms and shapes of the houses. But in contrast to the Bechers he never solely focuses on the architecture but also shows the interesting details and leftover artifcats present around the houses which tell of the life going on in and around them during spring and summer: footballs, lawn gnomes or simple vegetable beds immerse the viewer in the little stories hidden behind the walls and artifacts that are inextricably connected to the sphere of the Schreber gardens. Some might sniff at these identifiers of a petty bourgeois lifestyle but Brohm documents a grown cultural form that at the moment sees a revival among mostly well-educated urbanites.

That this early work of Joachim Brohm finally saw the light of day in 2014 is due to Mack Publishing who in close cooperation with the artist transferred his photographs into the present volume, fittingly entitled "Typology 1979". It gathers 35 Schreber garden photographs and a highly readable introduction to the series by Ulf Erdmann Ziegler who not only studied in the Ruhr area at the same time as Brohm did but also provides a historico-cultural excursus into the late 1970s Ruhr area and the Schreber gardens in particular, an essays that makes the book both a visual and intellectual pleasure!

Studies and private life

- History Studies

- Amsterdam

- Tomie (Junji Ito)

An old „Zeche“, a mining building, turned into a club for a night.

Auf die Freundschaft

Treue Freundschaft lebt in dem, der Freundschaft gibt, nicht in dem, der Freundschaft nimmt.              - Peter E. Schumacher -

Rombergpark Dortmund, Juni 2022

Members of the Red Ruhr Army during the Ruhr uprising, 1920

Summer

Spring in O.

emilienstraße // essen rüttenscheid

windows provide insights into the lives of the residents, but also leave room for interpretations and fantasies about life and living. the question remains: how much cream and eggnog will be served with sunday cake given the density of lace curtains in these windows?

IC735

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220819 – coking plant

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