March 18 until May 14, 2016 at the Bildhalle gallery, Seestrasse 16, 8802 Kilchberg (Zurich). Hours: Tue-Fri 11 am to 5 pm. Saturday from 11am to 5pm. More info…
René Groebli was born on the 9th of October 1927 in Zurich. As a photo reporter he carried out jobs for the magazine «Die Woche», later for the London agency «Black Star» in Africa and the Middle East.
His first two book publications were «Magie der Schiene» (Rail Magic, 1949), a poetic essay, and the image series «Das Auge der Liebe» (The Eye of Love, 1954, new edition 2014). In the exhibition «The Family of Man» that Edward Steichen had organised for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, René Groebli was represented together with the Swiss photographers Werner Bischof, Robert Frank and Gotthard Schuh.
After a short period he quit photojournalism and founded in the mid-Fifties his own studio for advertising and industrial photography. Groebli specialised in colour photography and experimented with the Dye Transfer process. In 1957, the American magazine «Color Annual» honoured him as «Master of Color».
After the early 1980s he turned again to his artistic essays in black and white. Towards the end of the 20th and during the first decade of the 21st century he reprocessed his image archive and digitalised the most important photographs of his oeuvre that grew over 60 years.
