Galerie Gmurzynska presents the retrospective Homage To Karl Lagerfeld; 30 Years of Photography, featuring over 50 works, which opened February 21st, at the gallery in Zurich.

Karl Lagerfeld, whose multifaceted personality helped set the fashion industries' standard for five decades, died Tuesday in Paris. He was 85. He had served as the creative director at Chanel for 36 years.

Since his first exhibition at Galerie Gmurzynska in 1996, Karl continuously and fearlessly explored the avant-garde of photographic processes; combining his compositional eye with his keen interest in the lost histories of the medium. His deep knowledge of art history has always been clearly illustrated in fresh ways throughout his oeuvre, while creating his own unique processes that will continue their influence on photography and art in general.

“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that‘s gone forever, impossible to reproduce,” said Lagerfeld.

"In homage to one of the great Renaissance people of our time and in remembrance of our collaboration over more than 20 years, we will mount a spontaneous photography retrospective opening February 21st at our Talstrasse 37 premises in Zurich. The exhibition will be accompanied by a gallery publication on Karl Lagerfeld," announced Krystyna Gmurzynska and Mathias Rastorfer.

Galerie Gmurzynska was the first gallery to exhibit Lagerfeld’s artworks and has represented the artist and his photography for over two decades, publishing several books and catalogues, hosting important exhibitions of the artist’s work and realizing special exhibition projects with him on a global scale.