Willy Schmidhamer is a Dutch photographer.
Schmidhamer was born in
Bandung
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in 1938 and pursued studies in Industrial and Graphic Design at the
Eindhoven Academy for Industrial Design (1955–60), and Film studies at the Amsterdam Academy for Film(1961–63). He specialized in sculpture, painting, film and photography, producing
non-figurative
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Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19t ...
works. The artist is much admired for his fragmented body parts expanded in such a way that they become landscape images in black and white. Schmidhamer made in the 1960s experimental films with colleagues in France and Italy and was devoted to experimental photography, printmaking and lithography, in addition to non-figurative painting and sculpture. At the end of the 1960s he received two prizes: Winner of the 37th Handsworth Exhibition, England (1968) and first prize at the Eindhoven World Exhibition of Photography, operated under the auspices of the
Noord-Brabants Museum's-Hertogenbosch (1969).
He described his intentions as follows: "De kracht van mijn werk ligt niet aan de oppervlakte.
Vaak is datgene, wat men niet ziet, maar wat verborgen aanwezig is als innerlijke kern, bepalend voor de uiteindelijke overdracht."
[Willy Schmidhamer in “Vormrelaties” cat. exh. Galerie In de Drye Swaentjes (15/1/1977-6/2/1977)]
Schmidhamer's work has been exhibited at the Galerij Dinette (1967), De Herberg, (1968 and 1970) and the Foundation De Krabbedans,
Eindhoven
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(1975), and at the Galerie “Bon à tirer” Grafica Moderna,
Milan
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,
Italy
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(1976).
See also
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History of erotic photography
References
External links
Willy Schmidhamer at Play BKR Eindhoven
1938 births
Dutch photographers
Living people
People from Bandung
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