1942 Military training followed by active military service

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1 Biography Karlheinz Weinberger 1921 Born June 10 in Zurich, Switzerland Grammar school in Zurich. Early photographs taken with a Five-Franc-Camera (small inexpensive AGFA box camera) Member of Naturfreunde photography club (association of Nature Enthusiasts). Receives technical introduction to photography 1942 Military training followed by active military service Photographs for the gay journal "Der Kreis", a seminal publication promoting the legal social rights of gay men Works, until his retirement, as a warehouse man at Siemens Factory, Albis, Zurich Meets first Halbstarke youths and begins photographing them using a Rollei Flex 2,8 camera 1960 Travels to Sicily, Tangiers, Lipari and Lampedusa Photographs for Swiss sports magazines "Status Sports", "Turnen and Sports». Continues to photograph biker gangs and other fringe groups. Starts long term experimental studies with outsiders, recurring sexual and spiritual rituals Dies December 10 in Zurich, Switzerland

2 Solo exhibitions 2017 Karlheinz Weinberger, Swiss Rebels, Les Recontres de la Photographie, Arles, France. Karlheinz Weinberger, PhotoEspagna, Madrid, Spain. Karlheinz Weinberger, Mérignac Photographic Festival, Mérignac, France Karlheinz Weinberger, Portraits , Maccarone, New York, USA Untitled 2013, Miami Beach, USA. Solo project with Rod Bianco Gallery, Oslo, Norway Karlheinz Weinberger, The Rebels, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris, France. Karlheinz Weinberger, Marc Oliver, Zurich, Switzerland Karlheinz Weinberger, Intimate Stranger, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York, USA. Karlheinz Weinberger, Intimate Stranger, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada. Karlheinz Weinberger, Intimate Stranger, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland. Karlheinz Weinberger, Halbstarke to Bikers, in Color, Anna Kustera, New York, USA. Karlheinz Weinberger, Rebels, Galerie Cubus M, Berlin, Germany. Karlheinz Weinberger, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France Karlheinz Weinberger, Vintage Prints, Belt, Jackets, Couples, etc., Anna Kustera, New York, USA Karlheinz Weinberger, A Retrospective, Lehmann, Leskow+Schedler, Toronto, Canada Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, USA. Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Karlheinz Weinberger, A Life Lived to The Full, Galerie Schedler, Zurich, Switzerland. Karlheinz Weinberger, Photos , The Photographer s Gallery, London, UK.

3 2000 Halbstark, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland Tattoos prominenter Schweizer Tätowierter, Reithalle, Egliswil, Switzerland Tattoos prominenter Schweizer Tätowierter, Galerie Anita Dosch, Zurich, Switzerland Fotogalerie Siemens-Albis, Zurich, Switzerland Tattoo Meeting In Zürich, 1986, Fotogalerie Migros Klubschule, Zurich, Switzerland Die Halbstarken Vor 25 Jahren als Zürich halbstark wurde, Fotogalerie Migros Klubschule, Zurich, Switzerland. Group exhibitions 2015 #Rawhide, Venus over Manhattan, New York, USA. Leder, Binz, Zurich, Switzerland , curated by Fred Fischli, Niels Olson and Bob Nickas, Alte Fabrik, Rapperswil- Jona, Switzerland A Sunday in the Mountains, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York, USA Contre Culture/CH, Musée de l Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland. Notes on Notes on Camp, Invisible Exports, New York, USA. Absentee Landlord, curated by John Waters, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA. B-B-B-Bad: an exhibition with attitudes, curated by Doug McClemont and Billy Miller, Anna Kustera Galery, New York, USA.

4 2010 Male, curated by Vince Aletti, Maureen Paley, London, UK Denim, curated by David Rimanelli, 80 WSE Gallery, New York University, New York, USA Rachel Harrison: Consider the Lobster, And Other Essays, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA. Kids Behaving Badly, Clamp Art, New York, USA Rebel, Rebel: Remembering Karlheinz Weinberger. With Ryan McGinley, Walter Pfeiffer, and Collier Schorr. Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, USA Wrestle, CCS Hessel Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA Overnight to Many Cities, curated by Collier Schorr, 303 Gallery, New York, NY, USA. Attitude, Scalo, New York, USA Seitenblicke. Die Schweiz 1848 bis 1998 eine Photochronik, Swiss National Museum, Zurich, Switzerland A Walk on the Wild Side, Müllerhaus, Lenzburg, Switzerland.

5 Museum collections Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur, Switzerland. Kunstsammlung der Stadt Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland. Hessel Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA. Schweizerische Nationalbibliothek, Bern, Switzerland. Private collections Nicolas Motelay, London Allure, Collection Susanne von Meiss, Zurich John Waters Collection, Los Angeles Sir Elton John Photographic Collection, London Monographs Karlheinz Weinberger, Swiss Rebels. Göttingen: Steidl, Editions in French, German and English. Karlheinz Weinberger, Halbstarke. Zurich: Sturm&Drang, Karlheinz Weinberger, Jeans, published by the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, the Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York, and the Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver. Toronto: Bywater Bros. Editions, Karlheinz Weinberger, Rebel Youth, edited by Schedler, Patrik, Martynka Wawrzyniak, and Bruce Hackney. New York: Rizzoli, Karlheinz Weinberger, Photos , edited by Binder, Ulrich and Pietro Mattioli. Zurich: Andreas Züst Verlag, Publications Der Kreis (Le Cercle, The Circle), monthly magazine. Zurich, Switzerland, Club Satus-Sport, Turnen und Sport ak, Swiss gay magazine