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Heinrich Heidersberger
DRESS OF LIGHT In the late 1940s, Heinrich Heidersberger shot his iconic nude series Kleid aus Licht (German for “Dress of Light”) for the magazine Stern, which Henri Nannen had recently… Read more
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Börse Hannover
Architecture
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Börse Hannover
Architecture
€ 1,390
Background Information about Heinrich Heidersberger
Introduction
DRESS OF LIGHT
In the late 1940s, Heinrich Heidersberger shot his iconic nude series Kleid aus Licht (German for “Dress of Light”) for the magazine Stern, which Henri Nannen had recently founded. This series – which caused outrage in prim post-war Germany – is now viewed as one of the classics of photographic art.
The idea was as simple as it was spectacular: Using a projector he fashioned out of a cooking pot, he covered naked bodies with spots and stripes of light. In doing so, he combined nude photography and experimental photography in ways never seen before. Heidersberger’s “dresses” of light reveal, above all, the photographer’s passion for the phenomenon of light, a theme he explores further in his later work, Rhythmographien (“Rhythmographies”). Heidersberger came to photography by chance. In 1928 he moved to Paris to study painting with Fernand Léger. Walking through a flea market, he stumbled across an old wooden camera. It was, as he says, “a sign from fate”.
Marc Peschke
Heinrich Heidersberger , who died in 2006 at the age of 100, has his place among the most important German photographers of the second half of the 20th century. Seminal images in the fields of architecture and advertising mark his complex life’s work, and his name as an artist is of great repute as well. An exceptional photographer of the modernist aesthetic, Heinrich Heidersberger knew exactly how to combine the documentary approach of photography with modernist ideas. In his photographs he combines function and visual aesthetics, incorporating economic, technical, and social aspects into his perfectly balanced pictures. The aesthetic ideas of modernism were influenced by the notion of structure. Heidersberger’s photographs open our understanding of these structural laws in a surprising and creative way. In his photographs of post-war architecture of the fifties Heidersberger revealed the aesthetics of modernism, thus presenting them as an interplay of structure and form. Heidersberger’s images have retained their importance in photography, in spite of all of the visual styles and trends that have developed over the last decades.
In the late 1940s, Heinrich Heidersberger shot his iconic nude series Kleid aus Licht (German for “Dress of Light”) for the magazine Stern, which Henri Nannen had recently founded. This series – which caused outrage in prim post-war Germany – is now viewed as one of the classics of photographic art.
The idea was as simple as it was spectacular: Using a projector he fashioned out of a cooking pot, he covered naked bodies with spots and stripes of light. In doing so, he combined nude photography and experimental photography in ways never seen before. Heidersberger’s “dresses” of light reveal, above all, the photographer’s passion for the phenomenon of light, a theme he explores further in his later work, Rhythmographien (“Rhythmographies”). Heidersberger came to photography by chance. In 1928 he moved to Paris to study painting with Fernand Léger. Walking through a flea market, he stumbled across an old wooden camera. It was, as he says, “a sign from fate”.
Marc Peschke
Heinrich Heidersberger , who died in 2006 at the age of 100, has his place among the most important German photographers of the second half of the 20th century. Seminal images in the fields of architecture and advertising mark his complex life’s work, and his name as an artist is of great repute as well. An exceptional photographer of the modernist aesthetic, Heinrich Heidersberger knew exactly how to combine the documentary approach of photography with modernist ideas. In his photographs he combines function and visual aesthetics, incorporating economic, technical, and social aspects into his perfectly balanced pictures. The aesthetic ideas of modernism were influenced by the notion of structure. Heidersberger’s photographs open our understanding of these structural laws in a surprising and creative way. In his photographs of post-war architecture of the fifties Heidersberger revealed the aesthetics of modernism, thus presenting them as an interplay of structure and form. Heidersberger’s images have retained their importance in photography, in spite of all of the visual styles and trends that have developed over the last decades.
Bio
1906 | Born in Ingolstadt, Germany |
1928-1931 | Attended Fernand Léger’s art school while in Paris, began working in photography, met Piet Mondrian and Yves Tanguy |
1946 | Began working as a photojournalist, advertising and architectural photographer in Berlin |
1957 | Opened a studio in Brunswick, Germany, started working as a photojournalist for Stern |
1961 | Moved to Wolfsburg, founded the artist’s group “Schloßstraße 8” |
2006 | Passed away in Wolfsburg, Germany |
Awards
1957 | Silver Medal, 11th Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy |
1981 | Lower Saxony Order of Merit |
1986 | City of Wolfsburg Silver Plaque |
2003 | Honorary Citizenship in the City of Wolfsburg |
Collections
Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig, Germany | |
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada | |
Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany |
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2017 | Das zweite Auge - Rollei und die Braunschweiger Fotoindustrie, Städtisches Museum Braunschweig, Germany Heinrich Heidersberger - Face to the World, Toyohashi City Museum of Art & History, Toyohashi, Japan Ägyptische Komödie, Marionettentheater by Harro Siegel |
2016 | MS Atlantic, auf einem Kreuzfahrtschiff der MS Europa 2 |
2015 | PиTMOгPAMи, Museum für Wisschenschaft und Technik, Belgrad, Serbia Ritmogrami, Technisches Museum Zagreb, Kroatien |
2014 | Heidersberger. Rhythmogramme - das gestimmte Bild, Petra Rietz Salon Galerie, Berlin, Germany |
2012 | ARRIVARE/ Wolfsburg - Bilder einer jungen Stadt, St. Johannes-Evangelist-Kirche, Berlin, Germany MS Atlantic, Petra Rietz Salon Galerie, Berlin, Germany |
2011 | MS Atlantic, Galerie Kunstgut Hamburg, Germany |
2008 | Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany Heidersberger: Rückkehr zum Aufbruch. Fotografien 1949 bis 1973, Volkswagenwerk Wolfsburg, Germany |
2007 | Ästhetik der Moderne. Photographien von Heinrich Heidersberger, Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany Altana Galerie, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
2006 | Heidersberger Einhundert, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig, Germany Vertretung des Landes Niedersachsen beim Bund in Berlin, Germany Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria InFocus Galerie, Cologne, Germany Autostadt, Wolfsburg, Germany |
2002 | Kultur unterm Schirm, Kirchentellinsfurt, Germany |
2001 | Architektenkammer Niedersachsen, Hannover, Germany Galerie InFocus, Cologne, Germany Medienwerkstatt des Caspar-David-Friedrich-Instituts der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Germany |
2000 | Heinrich Heidersberger Architekturphotographie 1952-72, Stadtmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany |
1999 | Galerie für Fotografie - Georg Eichinger, Berlin, Germany |
1997 | Die Rhythmogramme, Kunstverein Gifhorn, Germany Die Rhythmogramme, Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany |
1996 | Deutsch-Dänische Gesellschaft, Bad Harzburg, Germany Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany Fotozentrum Zimmermann, Hannover, Germany |
1995 | Galerie Wendelin Niedlich, Stuttgart, Germany |
1992 | Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig, Germany |
1990 | Stadt- und Lichtbildgalerie, Ingolstadt, Germany |
1989 | Center for Creative Photography, Tucson University, Arizona, United States |
1987 | Danmarks Fotomuseum, Herning, Denmark Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Austria |
1986 | Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany |
1982 | Stadt- und Lichtbildgalerie Ingolstadt, Germany |
1972 | Olympisches Dorf Munich, Haus Wolfsburg, Germany |
1971 | Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany |
1967 | Galerie Clarissa, Hannover, Germany |
1966 | Tonbildschau für Jenaer Glas in Frankfurt, Germany Heidersberger fotografier, Museet for Fotografi, Viborg, Denmark |
1962 | Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Austria |
1956 | Die Neue Sammlung, Munich, Germany |
1946 | Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany |
Group Exhibitions
2017 | Städtisches Museum Braunschweig |
2016 | Thinking about Algorithms, Galarie Scheublein + Bak, Zurich, Switzerland Heidersberger & Heidersberger, Culture Matters Galarie, Hannover, Germany Sommersalon 2016, Holthoff Mokross Galerie, Hamburg, Germany Wolfsburg Unlimited - Eine Stadt als Wetllabor, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany |
2015 | Lichtbild und Datenbild - Spuren Konkreter Fotografie, Museum Kunstspeicher, Würzburg, Germany Augen auf! - 100 Jahre Leica Fotografie, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Berlin, Wien und Munich, Germany ParisPhoto, Galerie Scheublein & Bak, Zurich, Switzerland Hans Arp. Der Nabel der Avantgarde, Georg Kolbe Museum Berlin, Germany Inszenierung des Fortschritts, Vintage Computing Festival, Berlin, Germany Konkrete Kunst, Kunstverein Bad Nauheim |
2014 | Media Scape Biennale, Rijeka, Kroatien |
2013 | CONCRETE - Fotografie und Architektur, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland |
2010 | Mirkrofografie - Schönheit jenseits des Sichtbaren, Museum für Fotografie, Fotografie der Kunstbibliothek |
2009 | Wolfsburg Research, Emirates Fine Art Society, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates |
2006 | ArchiSculpture, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany |
2005 | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart, Germany Zwei deutsche Architekturen, several cities, Germany |
2001 | Abstrakte Fotografie, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany |
1998 | The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, United States |
1997 | Wolfsburg und Eisenhüttenstadt, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
1996 | Goethe-Institut Paris, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie, Paris, France |
1989 | Das Foto als autonomes Bild, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany Das Foto als autonomes Bild, Bayerische Akademie der Künste, Munich, Germany |
1984 | Image et Imaginaires d´Architecture, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France The Photographers Gallery, London, United Kingdom |
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