"Neubauviertel Nordweststadt (Frankfurt/M)" 1965

Abisag Tüllmann (1936-1996 collected few scientific and euphoric wonders in her unobtrusive and complex photography, but rather photographed the elegiac, gray post-war burdens, which still weighed heavily on Germany in the 50’s and early 60’s. This angle complied with the subtle, melancholy and, at the same time, politically guarded atmosphere that the photographer displayed.  But Abisag Tüllmann also had an eye for change. She meticulously observed the development of her country from the student revolutions to far more. She traveled the world from South Africa, Algeria, Zimbabwe, South Korea and Lebanon as a photojournalist for magazines such as Die Zeit and Der Spiegel, and always preserved a solid distance with which she resolutely defended herself against fashion, personal effects and material objects.Abisag Tüllmann’s photographs beget a deep empathy for mankind. The sufferers, the happy, the mourners, and the fighters. Her skill at compressing these feelings and this will to live in photographs enabled her to develop her photographic ability, bound up with its differentiation of subtle light, into an unparalleled mastery in German post-war photography. One differentiation, as Jean-Christophe Ammann formulated it, is that“ the resonating cavity of the images” was created so that the message could fully resound. 

Dr. Boris von Brauchitsch