05.04.2026 14:00 - 17:00
Fricktaler Museum, Marktgasse 12, 4310 Rheinfelden
Adults: CHF 5.00
Children: CHF 3.00
Children under 14 years: Free of charge
Museums-Pass-Musées, Swiss Museum Pass, Raiffeissen MamberPlus, KulturLegi valid
Children: CHF 3.00
Children under 14 years: Free of charge
Museums-Pass-Musées, Swiss Museum Pass, Raiffeissen MamberPlus, KulturLegi valid
We take a look into the past with selected portraits of people from Rheinfeld. As exclusive snapshots from earlier times, they still fascinate us today.
In our cabinet exhibition A picture for eternity, we take a look into the past of the people of Rheinfeld and show gems of portrait photography from our collection.
For a long time, every portrait photograph was a special feature, an exclusive snapshot and a picture for eternity. It is therefore not surprising that nothing was left to chance when taking the picture: Composition, lighting, clothing, accessories, posture or the gaze - everything was thought through. Even in the earliest photographs in our collection, the daguerreotypes of the Schröter family from 1853, but also in the most recent ones, the passport photos from the vending machine from the 1980/1990s, this representation, the staging of a particular image, is central.
With selected portraits of people from Rheinfeld, we show the range of human representations in private and public spaces as well as the different forms of representation and (self-)staging, which are sometimes characterized by conventions and aesthetics typical of the time, but also always reflect individual ideas of one's own person. If you look closely, you may well discover something surprising and still current: be it an impressive landscape backdrop in the photo study, the sophisticated clothing of the ladies and gentlemen, the perfectly styled hairstyles of children and young people typical of the time, the solemn seriousness or the mischief in the eyes of those portrayed.
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
For a long time, every portrait photograph was a special feature, an exclusive snapshot and a picture for eternity. It is therefore not surprising that nothing was left to chance when taking the picture: Composition, lighting, clothing, accessories, posture or the gaze - everything was thought through. Even in the earliest photographs in our collection, the daguerreotypes of the Schröter family from 1853, but also in the most recent ones, the passport photos from the vending machine from the 1980/1990s, this representation, the staging of a particular image, is central.
With selected portraits of people from Rheinfeld, we show the range of human representations in private and public spaces as well as the different forms of representation and (self-)staging, which are sometimes characterized by conventions and aesthetics typical of the time, but also always reflect individual ideas of one's own person. If you look closely, you may well discover something surprising and still current: be it an impressive landscape backdrop in the photo study, the sophisticated clothing of the ladies and gentlemen, the perfectly styled hairstyles of children and young people typical of the time, the solemn seriousness or the mischief in the eyes of those portrayed.
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
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Fricktaler Museum
Marktgasse 12
4310 Rheinfelden