Ingeborg Sello

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Artist Ursula Querner (1964), photo: Ingeborg Sello

Ingeborg Sello (born January 24, 1916 in Oldenburg ; † May 5, 1982 in Hamburg ) was a German photographer and art critic .

Life

Ingeborg Sello - born as Ingeborg Prinz - grew up first in Wilhelmshaven , later in Hamburg. From 1925 she took the name of her stepfather Mösch. After finishing school in Hamburg, she did an apprenticeship as a photographer at the Reimann School in Berlin from 1934 under Otto Croy. From 1935 to 1936 professional training followed at the Bavarian State Institute for Photography in Munich . She completed her professional training with the journeyman's examination with Hans Schreiner.

After marrying the art historian Gottfried Sello in Berlin, the daughter Katrin Sello (1941–1992) and the son Thomas Sello (* 1945) were born. The family moved to Hamburg in 1945. Here the Sello couple founded the Galerie der Jugend in Steinstrasse. The gallery closed in 1951 because the rooms in the attic of the Hamburg tax office were no longer available. The gallery activity was the basis for the acquaintance of numerous artists and creators.

Ingeborg Sello opened his own photo studio in Ernst-Merck-Strasse in 1948 . She became a regular freelancer for the feature sections of the Hamburg daily newspapers, and also wrote text reports for the Hamburger Echo . In 1951 Ingeborg Sello passed the master craftsman examination at the Hamburg Chamber of Crafts as a photographer and from then on trained apprentices.

In 1955 the first own exhibition with pictures from the features section took place in the State Image Office Hamburg. The Landesbildstelle then acquired numerous artist portraits for its own collection. In 1956, Sello received the first prize from the picture section in the Association of Journalists.

In the 1950s Ingeborg Sello portrayed numerous artists, writers and actors. Many of those portrayed were friends or they became friends during a visit to the photo studio, when intensive conversations were held despite the bright lights. Ingeborg Sello managed to get those portrayed back to a spontaneous expression despite the eye of the camera. So she was able to make recordings of the young Horst Janssen , the young Heidi Kabel , Oskar Kokoschka , Max Ernst , KRH Sonderborg , Henry Moore , Hans Arp , Willi Baumeister , Marcel Marceau , Bernhard Minetti and many others very early on .

In 1967 the divorce from Gottfried Sello followed and from 1970 she worked as an art critic for the Hamburger Abendblatt a . a .; 1978 trip to Spain, where she received suggestions for a large-format color composition series “Spanish Walls”. Sello also produced photo reports on everyday life in Hamburg, took advertising photos, presented professions and their actors, and photographed theater and opera performances.

Ingeborg Sello died on May 5, 1982 after returning from a trip to Rome.

Exhibitions

  • 1966: Exhibition composition and experiment in the Clarissa gallery, then gallery 13 (Hamburg) then gallery Jule Hammer (Berlin).
  • 1982: Exhibition in the Hamburg bookstore Felix Jud : Horst Janssen, portraits .

Quote

“Because it seems to me that the most important thing in photography is that you approach every shot as if you did the first. You have to forget everything you did before - except for your technical experience. The desperate effort to find a style of one's own contradicts the actual role of photography, which is a serving one. I believe that the style of the recording is always determined by the object and the task. You have to approach the object in an impartial manner and without specific ideas and wait for the right moment when the expression of the person is completely spontaneous and yet characteristic. If something like your own style develops, it's like with your own handwriting, which you don't even try. "

Ingeborg Sello on her exhibition Pictures from the Features , 1955

literature

  • Also a kind of hotel , Ingeborg Sello: Photos for the features section / Paul Theodor Hoffmann, edited by Thomas Sello, with contributions by Volker Detlef Heydorn and Eckhard Schaar, Dölling and Galitz Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3-930802-24-4

estate

The forum for the estates of artists in Hamburg looks after the estate .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Swantje Kuhfuss-Wickenheiser, The Reimann School in Berlin and London 1902–1943. A Jewish company for international art and design training up to its destruction by the Hitler regime, Aachen 2009, ISBN 978-3-86858-475-2 , p. 568.

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personal data
SURNAME Sello, Ingeborg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prinz, Ingeborg (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and art critic
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg
DATE OF DEATH May 5th 1982
Place of death Hamburg