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 The Cologne Fine Art Award (German: Cologne-Fine-Art-Preis) was awarded annually as part of the art exposition ART Cologne. It was awarded by the Cologne Trade Fair Company (Kölner Messegesellschaft Köln Messe) and the Federal Association of Germ ...

and in 2005 was shortlisted for the

Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize is a prize awarded annually by the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation and The Photographers' Gallery to a photographer who has made the most significant contribution to the photographic medium i ...

. His work is held in the collections of the

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Fotomuseum Winterthur Fotomuseum Winterthur is a museum of photography in Winterthur, Switzerland. History The museum was founded in 1993 and is dedicated to photography as art form and document, and as a representation of reality. Fotomuseum Winterthur is an art g ...

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and the

Städel The Städel, officially the ''Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie'', is an art museum in Frankfurt, with one of the most important collections in Germany. The Städel Museum owns 3,100 paintings, 660 sculptures, more than 4,600 ...

Life and work

Sasse attended the

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf is the academy of fine arts of the state of North Rhine Westphalia at the city of Düsseldorf, Germany. Notable artists who studied or taught at the academy include Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Magdalena Jetelová, ...

from 1982 to 1988, where he studied under

Bernd Becher Bernd is a Low German short form of the given name Bernhard (English Bernard). List of persons with given name Bernd The following people share the name Bernd. *Bernd Brückler (born 1981), Austrian hockey player *Bernd Eichinger (1949–2011), ...

. 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. . With texts by Sasse, Andreas Kreul and Detlef Bernhard Linke. *''Tableaux & Esquisses''. Museum of Grenoble; Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2004. . With a text by Guy Tosatto. *''Tableaus & Skizzen 2004/2005'', Kunstmuseum Bonn; Kunstverein Hannover; Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2005. . With texts by Stefan Gronert, Stephan Berg and Martin Engler. *''Skizzen – Der Grenoble Block''. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2006. . With texts by Sasse and Tosatto, in English, French, and German. *''d8207''. Cologne: Walther König, 2007. .

Publications with contributions by Sasse

*''The Düsseldorf School of Photography''. New York:

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, 2010. Germany: Schirmer/Mosel, 2010. Edited by Stefan Gronert. Includes work by

Bernd and Hilla Becher Bernhard "Bernd" Becher (; 20 August 1931 – 22 June 2007), and Hilla Becher, née Wobeser (2 September 1934 – 10 October 2015), were German conceptual artists and photographers working as a collaborative duo. They are best known for their ...

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 ...

Elger Esser Elger Esser (born 11 May 1967) is a German landscape photographer, living in Düsseldorf. "He is primarily associated with large-format images of European lowlands with his characteristic low horizon lines, pale luminous colours and vast skies". ...

Andreas Gursky Andreas Gursky (born 15 January 1955) is a German photographer and professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. He is known for his Large format (photography), large format architecture and Landscape photography, landscape colour photogr ...

Candida Höfer Candida Höfer (born 4 February 1944) is a German photographer. She is a former student of Bernd and Hilla Becher. Like other Becher students, Höfer's work is known for technical perfection and a strictly conceptual approach. From 1997 to 2000, ...

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 A ...

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 Kun ...

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 ...

, Sasse,

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

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 Jab ...

; a foreword by Lothar Schirmer, an essay by Gronert, and summary biographies, exhibition lists and bibliographies for each of the photographers. .

Awards

*2003:

Art Cologne Art Cologne is an art fair held annually in Cologne, Germany and was established in 1967 as ''Kölner Kunstmarkt''. It is regarded as the world's oldest art fair of its kind. The fair runs for six days and brings together galleries from more than ...

, Cologne, Germany *2005: Shortlisted,

The Photographers' Gallery The Photographers' Gallery was founded in London by Sue Davies opening on 14 January 1971, as the first public gallery in the United Kingdom devoted solely to photography. It is also home to the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, established in ...

, London

Collections

Sasse's work is held in the following public collections: *

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, Austria *

, Winterthur, Switzerland: 2 prints (as of December 2020) *

, New York: 2 prints (as of December 2020) *

, Frankfurt, Germany: 6 prints (as of December 2020)

Films about Sasse

*''Skizzen und Tableaux'' (Buchhandlung König, 2017) – by Ralph Goertz; 34 minutes

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sasse, Jörg 20th-century German photographers 21st-century German photographers Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alumni University of Duisburg-Essen alumni People from Bad Salzuflen Living people 1962 births