Art and photography have a long and exciting common history, which has not always been free of conflict. In the mid-nineteenth century, photographers delivered painters templates for their work, but at the same time there was quite a rivalry between the disciplines. Thus photography developed a new visual language. Precisely this Pictorialist photography, which was for a long time dismissed as 'pretentious kitsch', has been in the spotlight again recently, as not only modern theories of perception were tested and put into practice, but also the first processes of abstraction were explored.
