NZZ hands over Scheidegger photo archive to foundation
The NZZ transfers the archive of long-time Neue Zürcher Zeitung photographer Ernst Scheidegger by selling it to the Ernst Scheidegger Archive Foundation.
The work of the photographer and former picture editor has been comprehensively catalogued by the NZZ in recent years, according to a press release issued on Thursday. It is now complying with Ernst Scheidegger's wish to sell the corpus of the foundation he established in order to ensure the long-term care and management of his extensive oeuvre.
As a photographer, publisher and art mediator, Ernst Scheidegger shaped the NZZ supplement Wochenende for decades. As a photojournalist, he traveled the Arab world, India and the Far East for the Magnum photo agency. However, it was his portraits of artists that made him famous. As early as 1943, he took photographs of Alberto Giacometti's studios in Maloja, Stampa and Paris, and published these pictures in 1958 as a book together with his autobiographical and poetic texts. He captured Max Bill, Marc Chagall and Oscar Kokoschka in pictures, as well as Man Ray, Joan Miró and other contemporary artists.
The Neue Zürcher Zeitung pays tribute to Ernst Scheidegger and his work in a special supplement in its March 25 issue.
