Gerhard Alexander "Gerry" Schum (15 September 1938 – 23 March 1973) was a German cameraman, filmmaker and Video artist.
[1] After studying medicine in 1958, Schum enrolled at the Deutsches Institut für Film und Fernsehen [de] (DIFF) in Munich from 1961 to 1963.
Between 1967 and 1969, Schum created two documentaries for Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) III, of which the first one, about the sixth Art Biennale in San Marino, aired on 24 August 1967.
While shooting Konsumkunst-Kunstkonsum in the summer, he met many artists, art dealers and collectors from Cologne and Düsseldorf, among whom his future wife and collaboration partner Ursula Wevers.
In 1971, Schum quit making TV-exhibitions and founded his own gallery dedicated to video art, located at Ratingerstrasse 37 in Düsseldorf.
[4] Filming for the first TV-exhibition called Land Art started in January 1969, and the 38-minute program aired on 15 April that year on Sender Freies Berlin.