Practicing since the 1950s,
F.C. Gundlach was one of the most successful German photographers; from 1967, he was then also a visionary founder of two pioneering photographic enterprises, CCD and PPS., along with their affiliated photography galleries. From the beginning of the 1960s, Gundlach initially collected photography. From the late 1970s he also began acquiring works by the aforementioned artists, for whom photography was but one of many mediums. This time period and its anarchistic expression, its wit and its critique, impacted greatly on the cross-disciplinary works of these artists. With both his technical scope in photo production, as well as his profound knowledge on photography, F.C. Gundlach wanted to support these then, mostly young artists.