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Jakob Tuggener

Jakob Tuggener (1904–1988) was a photographer, film maker and painter. In the major themes of his photographic work – labor in a factory, simple rural life and magnificent parties of high society – Tuggener composed print-ready book maquettes, but for Fabrik alone he found a publisher. Tuggener was presented by Otto Steinert (Exhibition “subjektive fotografie” 1951/53) and – arranged by Robert Frank – by Edward Steichen (Exhibition “Post-War European Photography” and “Family of Man” 1953/55). The Helmhaus in Zurick devoted a retrospective to him in 1974. Tuggener left an immense and practically untouched life work: more than 60 book maquettes, thousands of exhibited photographs and work prints, hundreds of color slides, drawings, watercolors, oil paintings and more than 20 silent films.