In memoriam June Newton
News from 04/12/2021
Photo artist June Newton passed away in Monte Carlo on April 9, 2021. The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz mourns the loss of a good friend and reliable partner.
It was with great dismay and deep sorrow that the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation), learned of June Newton's death last Friday in Monte Carlo. Hermann Parzinger, President of the SPK, paid tribute: "In June Newton, the art world has lost a great and special photographer, who set standards above all with her sensitive portrait photography. For our part, we have lost a good friend and reliable partner, without whom the Helmut Newton Foundation and the Museum of Photography in Jebensstrasse would have been inconceivable. June and her husband Helmut decided jointly that his world-famous photographs should find a permanent home in Berlin, the city of his birth. As he had once fled Germany to escape Nazi persecution, this was a special gift for Berlin and for Germany as well as a political signal. It was June who encouraged him in taking the decision. Sadly, he did not live to see the museum opened. Nevertheless, June made sure that it took shape in keeping with his spirit; she oversaw the presentation of his work in changing exhibitions and was keen to encourage young photographers to draw on Helmut Newton's work. I myself will remember June Newton as a highly dynamic, energetic woman who always took care that the Museum of Photography with the Helmut Newton Foundation did not lose its power of attraction, that it was filled with an aura of inspiration. The area around Bahnhof Zoo has long been Berlin's photographic quarter – it will always be associated with the names of June and Helmut Newton."