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"Annelie Lutgens is directress of the photographic collection of Berlinische Galerie Berlin. She curated in 2013 the exhibition ""Wien Berlin"" and 2014 the retrospective of Dorothy Iannone. Inka Schube is curator of the Photo collection at Sprengel Museum Hanover. UMBO, born in 1902 in Dusseldorf as Otto Maximilian Umbehr, the second of ten chil--d-ren of a civil engineer and a teacher, is considered the inventor of the image of the New Woman, the new image of the street, and photographic report-age per se. His name stands for the departure of the German Youth Movement of the Wandervogel from the Wilhelminian era to the early Bauhaus. He also represents the media metropolis Berlin in the 1920s, spurred above all by immigrants from Eastern Europe, for a rapidly developing film, music, theater and cabaret scene, for glimpses into the -backyards and kitchens of overflowing tenement houses. UMBO: This is the young artist plagued by self-doubt who becomes famous as a photog-rapher almost overnight thanks to the impulses -received by his Bauhaus teacher Johannes Itten and his artist friend Paul Citroen and hence participates in all -important avant-garde exhibitions of his time; and who, according to the narrative, lives through National Socialism as an ""anti"" whose -Berlin studio and archive is completely destroyed by bombs in 1943, and whose attempt to revive his former existence as a photographer of the avant-garde fails during the economic miracle of the West German post-war -period in Hanover; whose expressive early, then new work is rediscovered in the 1970s; and who, in 1979, shortly before his death, has his first solo exhibition in a museum context in the Spectrum photo gallery at the ""Kunstmuseum Hannover and Sprengel Collection"". During his life time UMBO participated in numerous shows; amongst others 1929 at Folkwang Museum Essen, 1932 at Julien Levy Gallery in New York, 1968 at Wurttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart with the show 50 Years Bauhaus, 1978 at Centre Georges Pompidou with Paris-Berlin 1900-1933, and 1979 at Sprengel Museum Hanover. After his death he was partially rediscoverd 1989 with the show On the Art of Fixing a Shadow. 100 and 50 years of Photography at National Gallery of Art Washington DC, or 1995 with shows at Hauser der Kunst Munich, Centre national de la photographie Paris, or Kestnergesellschaft Hanover. His work also was on show 2005 with Portraits of an Age at Neue Galerie New York, 2007, titled: Foto: Modernity in Central Europe at National Galler Washington DC, or 2014 with: Object: Photo. Modern Photographers from the Thomas Walther Collection at MoMA New York, also 2016 with: The Radical Eye. Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection at Tate Modern in London, and finally 2017 with: Made in Germany. German Photography from the 19th Century until Today at Shanghai Centre of Photography."

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