Susanne Schapowalow - Catalogue of MIA certified prints

Susanne Schapowalow the jazz photographs of a female master photographer

the Music Inspired Art certified prints catalogue

Music Inspired Art Wim van Zon Boreelstraat 51a – 3039 WJ Rotterdam – The Netherlands T +31 (0)628 579 051 – musicinspiredart@gmail.com

This catalogue of Music Inspired Art certified prints of Susanne Schapowalow images will be updated yearly.

Last updated May 2022

A catalogue with the last signed and numbered prints can be found here: https://issuu.com/wimvanzon/docs/susanne_schapowalow_catalogue_2022.pptx More info: www.schapowalow.com

Susanne Schapowalow – Jazz Photography Gems Rediscovered In 2010 the jazz archives of Susanne Schapowalow were rediscovered by her grandson Felix. For 40 years all negatives and vintage prints have been ‘buried’ in houses in Hamburg and Malente, Germany.

An exhibition in Berlin was the result and JazzPrezzo publishers published the book Sophotocated Lady in 2011. One interview for German regional television followed, plus a small exhibition in Istanbul, Turkey and then it became silent again. Only a few people were able to see the remarkable shots of a lady photographer who lived with the legends.

The health of Susanne Schapowalow, born 1922 in Berlin, got fragile. With the help of Natascha Brüggemann, Susanne’s daughter, Wim van Zon and the late Hasselblad Master Award winner Hans van Ommeren took a dive in the archives and selected 60 large high quality prints that were made in 2010 and still could be signed by Schapowalow.

The photos by this ‘Vivian Meyer of jazz photography’ have been on display at the pop-up Jazz Museum Rotterdam, the Boutique Boulevard in Hong Kong and at the BIM Huis, a famous jazz venue in Amsterdam. All exhibitions have been curated by Music Inspired Art.

Susanne Schapowalow – Jazz Photography Gems Rediscovered In July 2019 a selection was on display at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam. During the covid period all activities around the archive and the available prints came to a halt although the ambition to further explore the work of Susanne never faded For 2022, the year Susanne Schapowalow would turn 100 years, I coud take a deeper dive in the archive, knowing that many images still had not been discovered.

This resulted in the idea of a Schapowalow 100 exhibition that could travel around the world. I took over 40 never seen before images from Germany, some of them represented in this catalogue.

Here you will find the newly printed images that are for sale. They made us believe that Susanne Schapowalow was a master playing in the same league as William Claxton, Francis Wolff and Herman Leonard. To stay authentic all prints are made on thick barite paper.

Wim van Zon/curator

Susanne Schapowalow MIA prints 2022 J02-252A – Duke Ellington with Don Byas and Wendell Marshall, Musikhalle, Hamburg, May 1950

Susanne Schapowalow MIA prints 2022 J02 688 - Benny Waters, Jimmy Archey and Henry Goodwin Ernst Marck Halle, Hamburg, November 1952

Susanne Schapowalow MIA prints 2022 J02-0140 – Lou Hackney, bass player in the Dizzy Gillespie Band NDR Hamburg. March 1953

Susanne Schapowalow MIA prints 2022

J02 573 – Lionel Hampton Ernst-Merck-Halle, Hamburg, 1953

Susanne Schapowalow MIA prints 2022 J02-067 – Norman Granz, Ella Fitzgerald, Flip Philips, Oscar Peterson Atlantic Hotel, Hamburg, February 1953

Susanne Schapowalow MIA prints 2022 Onbekend archiefnr. – Ella Fitzgerald Jazz at the Philharmonic, Ernst Merck Halle Hamburg, February 1953

Susanne Schapowalow MIA prints 2022 J02-0021 – Oscar Peterson and Charlie Shavers Ernst-Merck-Halle, Hamburg, February 1954 Jazz at the Philharmonic

Susanne Schapowalow MIA prints 2022 1909 – Sonny Stitt Jazz at the Philharmonic, Hamburg, May 1958

Susanne Schapowalow MIA prints 2022 Onbekend archiefnr. – Sonny Stitt and Dizzy Gillespie playing chess Probably 1958 Stitt and Gillespie playing chess inbetween two sets in Hamburg.

Susanne Schapowalow MIA prints 2022 Unknown archive number – Louis Armstrong with fans Berlin, February 1959

Susanne Schapowalow MIA prints 2022 J05 4063 – Duke Ellington Hotel Atlantic, Hamburg, October 1959

Susanne Schapowalow MIA prints 2022 Onbekend archiefnr. – Lee Morgan Probably December1960

Susanne Schapowalow MIA prints 2022 J06 4903 – Quincy Jones + Porter Kilbert and Phil Woods Jazz – gehört und gesehen Palais d’Egmont, Brussels, Belgium 1960

Susanne Schapowalow MIA prints 2022 J07 5399 – Nat King Cole, Quincy Jones Band Train station, 1960

Quincy Jones & Bengt Arne Wallin Jazzclub Nalen, Stockholm, Sweden, July 1960 Print 50 x 50 cms.

Baryta paper Framed 70 x 70 cms.

Signed Numbered 1/10 € 3,150.00

J05 2931 – Kid Ory with program folder September 1959 Print 50 x 50 cms.

Baryta paper Framed 70 x 70 cms.

Signed Numbered 6/10 € 3,750.00

Susanne Schapowalow MIA print 2022 J07 5912 - Les Spann Paris , April 1960

Susanne Schapowalow MIA prints 2022 J07 5499 – Nat King Cole Olympia Theater, Paris April 1960

Susanne Schapowalow MIA prints 2022 J09-7453 – Miriam Makeba Apollo Theatre, New York City, March 1961

Susanne Schapowalow MIA prints2022 J09 7466 – Nina Simone Village Gate, New York City, April 1961

Susanne Schapowalow MIA prints 2022 J09-7292 – Thelonious Monk & Tete Montoliu Deutscher Jazz Salon, Kongresshalle Berlin May 1961

Formats and prices Image size 29.5x29.5 cm image size 28x37 cm Paper size 32x40 cm Paper size 32x44 cm Digital print on baryta paper Music Inspired Art blind stamp and certificate € 299.00 (21% VAT included) As above but matted and framed 45x45 cm Black wooden frame €

395.00 (21% VAT included)

Contact Music Inspired Art: Wim van Zon, T +31(0)628579051 E musicinspiredart@gmail.com All prices 21% VAT included.

Shipping excluded. Photos are sold on behalf of Susanne Schapowalow.

Website and more info We created a website with the images made by Susanne Schapowalow: www.schapowalow.com All activities are organized in close co-operation with Natascha Brüggemann, daughter of Susanne Schapowalow.

In case a photograph in this catalogue is marked SOLD we can search the archives in Germany to see if the image is still available.

Contact Music Inspired Art: Wim van Zon, T +31(0)628579051 E musicinspiredart@gmail.com All prices VAT 21% included.

Shipping excluded. Photos are sold on behalf of Susanne Schapowalow.

Photos on this page: © Wim van Zon – Susanne Schapowalow permanent exhibition at the Ellington Hotel, Berlin 2018. The Ellington Hotel closed in 2021.

Undiscovered Gems In 2022 we will start exploring the archive of color slides made by Susanne Schapowalow between 1954 and 1960. They have never been shown to the public.

We are looking for grants to continue our research and make these images available for future exhibitions.

Photo on this page: © Wim van Zon – Slides from the unknown archives of Susanne Schapowalow – March 2022

Note: There are only about 160 signed and numbered prints left. In co-operation with the Schapowalow family we aim at safeguarding the heritage of a photographer that is in the same league as American masters like Francis Wolff, Herman Leonard and William Claxton

More from Music Inspired Art Music Inspired Art and its partner VIPS International Art Galleries have thousands of photographs and paintings in stock, for sale or availble for music inspired exhibitions. We can curate, organize, ship and manage exhibitions with the works of Paul Bergen (Netherlands) Rob Bosboom (Netherlands) Easton Davy (USA) Jimmy Katz (USA) Susanne Schapowalow (Germany) Joke Schot (Netherlands) Michael Weintrob (USA) Peter van Breukelen (Netherlands) Gijsbert Hanekroot (Netherlands) Michel Linssen (Netherlands) Raphael Sprenger (Germany) Francis Wolff (USA) Ron Verboom (Netherlands) Henk Visser (Netherlands) Baron Wolman (USA)

Music Inspired Art and VIPs nternational share the Tone & Image Gallery in Schiedam, the Netherlands. The Tone & Image Foundation is the European knowledge centre for Music Photography and is located in the sam art centre.

All Information: Wim van Zon – T +31(0)628 579 051 – musicinspiredart@gmail.com