Ute Klophaus

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Ute Klophaus (* 10. February 1940 in Wuppertal , † 6. December 2010 ibid) was a German photographer , primarily related to art photographs and biographies or to the documentation of happenings and Fluxus - art actions specialized.

Life

Ute Klophaus studied from 1961 to 1962 at the "State Higher Technical School for Photography" in Cologne . After graduating, she worked as a freelance photographer and photo journalist. She came to the Fluxus movement and the innovative German art scene in 1963 through a photo documentation of the 9-No-Décollagen happening by Wolf Vostell in the Parnass Gallery by Rolf Jahresling in Wuppertal, where she saw the so-called 24-hour happening by the artist Joseph Beuys , Bazon Brock , Charlotte Moorman , Nam June Paik , Eckart Rahn, Tomas Schmit and Wolf Vostell took the photos. Following this action, the actors declared her to be a co-author and participant. Most of the best-known works by Ute Klophaus come from the art campaigns of the German artist Joseph Beuys, whom she has accompanied, photographically documented and interpreted for over 20 years since the campaign in Wuppertal in 1965, for example the Fluxus campaign Titus Andronicus / Iphigenie from 1969.

But she also photographed happenings and installations by numerous other artists such as George Brecht , Henning Christiansen , George Maciunas , Nam June Paik, Daniel Spoerri . In 1986 she created a city portrait of Košice and in 1998 dealt with the history of Weimar .

Alongside Bernd and Hilla Becher, Ute Klophaus is one of the most renowned photographers of German contemporary art and is considered a chronicler and contemporary witness of German post-war art. She also became known through material recordings, cityscapes and documentations of German history.

After a long, serious illness, Ute Klophaus died on December 6, 2010 in a hospice in Wuppertal.

Work and estate

Klophaus edited her negatives and photographs. Her prints, torn on one side, show spots and scratches that are supposed to express traces of impermanence. Through the "never presented" of her photos, she conveyed that actions arise through her seeing, which gives the photos an action character. In parallel to her photographic work, texts were created that for her were a continuation of her photographic vision.

The artist's estate with around 15,000 black-and-white prints and around 52,000 photo negatives was acquired by the Ernst von Siemens Art Foundation , which made the works available to the Moyland Foundation "on permanent loan." At the end of 2014 it was announced that both the photos and other archival material would be stored in the Museum of Moyland Castle and in the National Gallery of the State Museums in Berlin .

Awards and honors (selection)

Exhibitions (selection)

Fonts

  • Ute Klophaus: To be and stay. Photograph of Joseph Beuys . Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn 1986
  • Ute Klophaus: Weimar. A myth. Photographs . Hatje Cantz Verlag (2001), ISBN 3-89322-980-9
  • Joseph Beuys. Nueve acciones fotografiadas por Ute Klophaus , Barcelona 1985, Fundacion Caja de Pensiones October 24 to December 1, 1985, ISBN 84-5052254-4
  • Joseph Beuys, Peter Schata and Ute Klophaus: evening entertainment. Conversations between Joseph Beuys, journalists and scientists . Achberger Verlag (1977), ISBN 3-88103-080-8

literature

  • Renate Buschmann, Stephan von Wiese (eds.): Write photos of art history , DuMont, Cologne 2007 (exhibition catalog for the exhibition Write photos of art history , December 8, 2007 to March 2, 2008, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf); ISBN 978-3-8321-9058-3
  • René Block , Gabriele Knapstein (concept): A long history with many knots. Fluxus in Germany. 1962-1994. Institute for Foreign Relations , Stuttgart 1995

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gerhard Finkh, Antje Birthälmer (Ed.): "Private". Contemporary Wuppertal collectors in the Von der Heydt Museum , Von der Heydt Museum Wuppertal March 8 to May 24, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89202-073-8 , p. 331
  2. ↑ Ute Klophaus died in Wuppertal , erntges.net/ art news, December 7, 2010, accessed on December 7, 2010.
  3. ↑ Beuys photographer Klophaus' estate comes to Moyland. RP online, November 26, 2014, accessed October 3, 2017 .
  4. ^ NN : Das Bild von Beuys , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of November 27, 2014, p. 9.
personal data
SURNAME Klophaus, Ute
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 2010
Place of death Wuppertal