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Laurenz Berges
Laurenz Berges (born Cloppenburg, 1966) is a German photographer. He graduated from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf as Master Student under Bernd Becher in 1996. Berges' work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Work Berges' photographic work focuses primarily on transience. Between 1991 and 1995, Berges photographed the interiors of East German barracks that had been abandoned by the Red Army after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In his book Etzweiler, Berges documented Etzweiler, the district of Elsdorf that had to make way for open-pit lignite mining. For years, the artist also photographed wastelands in the de-industrialized city of Duisburg. Berges finds his subjects in the urban gray areas: It is details from abandoned apartments, vacated houses, and overgrown gardens that interest him and that he makes the subject of a poetic, yet strictly documentary pictorial composition. In view of these photograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cloppenburg
Cloppenburg (; nds, Cloppenborg; stq, Kloppenbuurich) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, capital of Cloppenburg District and part of Oldenburg Münsterland. It lies 38 km south-south-west of Oldenburg in the Weser-Ems region between Bremen and the Dutch border. Cloppenburg is not far from the A1, the major motorway connecting the Ruhr area to Bremen and Hamburg. Another major road is the federal highway B213 being the shortest link from the Netherlands to the A1 and thus to Bremen and Hamburg. The town had strong cultural links with St Munchins Parish in Limerick, Ireland from the 1970s to the 1990s. During this period many groups of teens/young adults from both areas visited and were hosted by families from the other area. Economy The town is a centre for the largely agricultural region of southern Oldenburg. It is the administrative centre of the district and there are many schools. However, there is also some industry in town: e.g. Lumberg, (connector systems) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simone Nieweg
Simone Nieweg (born 1962) is a German photographer, living in Düsseldorf, who photographs agricultural landscapes in rural Germany. She has had solo exhibitions at The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television in Bradford, UK and at Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany. Nieweg's work is held in the collections of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Saint Louis Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Life and work Nieweg was born in Bielefeld, Ostwestfalen-Lippe, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She attended the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf between 1984 and 1990, where she studied under Bernd Becher. She uses a large format camera. Between 1986 and 2012, Nieweg explored "the German tradition of "Grabeland," a unique community gardening system practiced on the outskirts of urban centers." She "photographed the agricultural landscape found on the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Cloppenburg
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University Of Duisburg-Essen Alumni
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21st-century German Photographers
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Petra Wunderlich
Petra ( ar, ٱلْبَتْرَاء, Al-Batrāʾ; grc, Πέτρα, "Rock", Nabataean: ), originally known to its inhabitants as Raqmu or Raqēmō, is an historic and archaeological city in southern Jordan. It is adjacent to the mountain of Jabal Al-Madbah, in a basin surrounded by mountains forming the eastern flank of the Arabah valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. The area around Petra has been inhabited from as early as 7000 BC, and the Nabataeans might have settled in what would become the capital city of their kingdom as early as the 4th century BC. Archaeological work has only discovered evidence of Nabataean presence dating back to the second century BC, by which time Petra had become their capital. The Nabataeans were nomadic Arabs who invested in Petra's proximity to the incense trade routes by establishing it as a major regional trading hub. The trading business gained the Nabataeans considerable revenue and Petra became the focus of their wea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Struth
Thomas Struth (born 11 October 1954) is a German photographer who is best known for his ''Museum Photographs'' series, family portraits and black and white photographs of the streets of Düsseldorf and New York taken in the 1970s. Struth lives and works in Berlin and New York. Early life and education Born to ceramic potter Gisela Struth and bank director Heinrich Struth in Geldern, Germany, Struth trained at the Düsseldorf Academy from 1973 until 1980 where he initially studied painting under Peter Kleemann and, from 1974, Gerhard Richter. Increasingly drawn to photography and with Richter's support, Struth, along with Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, and Roswitha Ronkholz, joined the first year of the new photography class run by Bernd and Hilla Becher, in 1976. In 2007, he was an artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. In 2007, Struth married author Tara Bray Smith in New York. Work In 1976, as part of a student exhibition at the Academy, Struth first showe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jörg Sasse
Jörg Sasse (born 1962) is a German photographer. His work uses found images that are scanned, pixelated and manipulated. In 2003 Sasse won the Cologne Fine Art Award and in 2005 was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. His work is held in the collections of the Belvedere, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Städel. Life and work Sasse attended the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1982 to 1988, where he studied under Bernd Becher. Since 1994 his work has involved digitally manipulating found images—primarily land- and cityscapes. "He developed a process of scanning images into his computer, changing them, and then making film negatives of these manipulated images, from which the final prints are made." Publications Books of work by Sasse *''Vierzig Fotografien 1984 – 1991''. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1992. . With texts by Gerda Breuer and Thomas Lange. *''Arbeiten am Bild''. Kunsthalle Bremen; Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2001. . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Ruff
Thomas Ruff (born 10 February 1958) is a German photographer who lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. He has been described as "a master of edited and reimagined images". Ruff shares a studio on Düsseldorf's Hansaallee, with fellow German photographers Laurenz Berges, Andreas Gursky and Axel Hütte. The studio, a former municipal electricity station, includes a basement gallery. Early life and education Thomas Ruff, one of six children, was born in 1958 in Zell am Harmersbach in the Black Forest, Germany. In the summer of 1974, Ruff acquired his first camera and after attending an evening class in the basic techniques of photography he started to experiment, taking shots similar to those he had seen in many amateur photography magazines. During his studies in Düsseldorf and inspired by the lectures of Benjamin HD Buchloh, Ruff developed his method of conceptual serial photography. Ruff began photographing landscapes, but while he was still a student he transitioned to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axel Hütte
Axel Hütte (born 1951) is a German photographer. He is considered one of main representatives of the Düsseldorf School of Photography. Biography Hütte was born in the German city of Essen in 1951. He studied photography in Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1973 to 1981, attending Bernd Becher’s class. He received a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service to study in London and in 1985 a scholarship to study at the German Study Center in the Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza in Venice. From 1986 to 1988 he was the recipient of a Karl Schmidt-Rottluff scholarship. In 1993, Hütte received the Hermann Claasen Prize for Creative Photography. Since then, he has been working as a freelance photographer. Hütte lives and works in Düsseldorf. His studio is located in the former power station on Hansaallee in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel, where the photographers Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff and Laurenz Berges also have their studios since the early 1980s. The property was remod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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