André Gelpke

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André Gelpke (born March 15, 1947 in Beienrode ) is a German photographer and lecturer . He is considered one of the leading author photographers in Europe. In the 1970s, André Gelpke, along with Heinrich Riebesehl and Michael Schmidt, was one of the pioneers of the medium of photography as art in Germany.

Life

André Gelpke began an apprenticeship as a bricklayer at an early age with the aim of becoming an architect . After his apprenticeship, he attended a two-year day school with a technical diploma , did an internship with an advertising photographer in 1966/67 and in 1967 made an extensive journey through the Orient, Egypt and Sudan. In June of the same year he got caught up in the turmoil of the six-day war between Israel and the Arab states in Beirut and later in Syria . Completely penniless and seriously ill, he was able to save himself to Turkey with the help of a doctor . After his military service in 1968 he studied from 1969 to 1975 at the Folkwang School in Essen under Otto Steinert . His diploma thesis deals with the then meaningful hippie trips by VW bus to Afghanistan , India and Nepal .

In 1975 Gelpke founded the Visa agency in Essen together with his former classmates Rudi Meisel and Gerd Ludwig . In 1979 he resigned from the agency because of his view of a conflict between commercial photography and his efforts to pursue "artistic" author photography. He then earned his living through exhibitions and international workshops as well as extensive world trips. From 1980 to 1990 he lived in Düsseldorf. 1987/88 he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Dortmund and at the College of Design in Zurich . In 1990 he went to Switzerland, after being appointed to Zurich in 1989, where he taught until 2012 as a professor of photography at the Zurich University of the Arts. From 2006 to 2008 he held an additional teaching position at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen .

André Gelpke lives with his family in Zurich and Grattino ( Liguria ) in Italy.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1974 Galerie Lichttropfen, Aachen, Germany
  • 1975 Galerie spectrum , Hannover, Germany
  • 1977 Stedeliik Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
  • 1979 Galerie Paule Pia, Antwerp, Belgium
  • 1980 Sander Gallery, Washington DC, USA
Work Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Folkwangmuseum , photo gallery, Essen, Germany
Galerie Foto Art, Frankfurt, Germany
1982 Galerie Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
Benteler Gallery, Houston, USA
Workshop for Photography, Berlin, Germany
  • 1983 Rudi Renner Gallery, Munich, Germany

Galerie Rudolf Kicken, Cologne, Germany

  • 1984 Benteler Gallery, Houston, USA
Center Georges Pompidou , Paris, France
Forum Gallery, Tarragona, Spain
Museu National, Coimbra, Portugal
Goethe Institute , Porto, Portugal
  • 1987 Photo gallery, Oslo, Norway
Goethe Institute, Turin, Italy
1988 Photo Festival Houston, Houston, USA
Fotoforum, Hamburg, Germany
  • 1989 Museum for Photography, Braunschweig, Germany
  • 1990 Sprengelmuseum , Hanover, Germany
  • 1992 - 96 exhibition "Heim-Weh", purchase and organization by the Goethe-Institut Munich, various museums and galleries, 36 countries worldwide
  • 2009 AC Kupper modern, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2015 Kicken Berlin, Germany

Group exhibitions (excerpt)

  • 1975 Il Diaframma Gallery, Milan, Italy
Landesbildstelle, Hamburg, Germany
Center Georges Pompidou , Paris, France
Sander Gallery, Washington DC, USA
  • 1979 Venezia79, Venice, Italy
Fabre Museum , Montpellier, France
"Essener Art Scene", Gruga , Essen, Germany
"German Photography after 1945", Kunstverein Kassel, Germany
Bibliothèque nationale , Paris, France
  • 1980 "Imagination and Reality", (traveling exhibition)
Leverkusen City Museum , Germany
Künstlerhaus Vienna , Austria
Palais des Beaux Arts , Brussels, Belgium
Fundacio Mirò , Barcelona, ​​Spain
Ufficio dell'Arge , Paris, France
Art Museum Düsseldorf , Germany
“The Imaginary Photo Museum”, Kunsthalle Cologne , Germany
  • 1981 "New German Photography", Photographic Gallery, Cardiff, GB
“Rejection of the single image”, Folkwangmuseum Essen, Germany
"The womanshow", Photographic Gallery, Cardiff, GB
  • 1982 "Artists Use Photography - Today", Kunstverein Cologne, Germany
Galerie Meier Hahn, Düsseldorf, Germany
“Place and Identity in European Photography”, Rimini, Italy
“Photographies en Allemagne 1920–1982”, Sixième festival photographique de Besançon, France
"The Federal Republic - contemporary German photographers see their country", Kunstmuseum Hannover , Germany
Galerie Kicken, Cologne, Germany
  • 1983 “Photography in Germany - Today”, Cultureel Centrum Hasselt, Belgium
Benteler Gallery, Houston, USA
  • 1984 “Contemporary European Portraitures”, Nordlight, Arizona State Univ., USA
"Six Contemporary German Photographers", Santa Fe Center for Photography New Mexico, USA
“The big picture - the small picture”, Photography Forum Frankfurt, Germany
  • 1985 Agrupacion Fotografica De Guadalajara, Spain
"Suspended Animation Photography of Houston Architecture", Houston, USA
  • 1986 Photo Biennale, Enschede, Holland
"7 Tendencias en la Fotografia Contemporanea Europea", Museo De Bellas Artes , Caracas, Venezuela
“Finally like everywhere else”, Ruhr Museum , Germany
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris , France
  • 1989 Circulo Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
"Landscape", Alden Biesen, Belgium
“Scholarship for Contemporary German Photography”, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Gallery Art54, New York, USA
  • 1990 "Otto Steinert and Students", Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
  • 1992 “Status Reports - German Photography from the Fifties to the Eighties”, IfA Gallery Berlin, Germany
  • 1993 “Antwerpen93” Museum for Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
  • 1994 "8 photographers on the same topic", Siemens photo project, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Germany
  • 1996 “Die Klasse”, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich , Switzerland
  • 2003 "Contemporary German Photography" (traveling exhibition)
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Art Museum Arsenals, Riga, Latvia
Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
“What I saw of them and what I was told about them”, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
“Face to face” masterpieces of photography from the DZ Bank Collection, Gallery of the City of Stuttgart , Germany
  • 2006 26 anos. Encontros de fotografia, CAV, Coimbra, Portugal
  • 2008 “dark side” Fotomuseum Winterthur
"De lo humano". Fotografia international 1950–2000, Museo Picasso , Málaga, Spain
Museum for Arts and Crafts , Hamburg
From the Heydt Museum Wuppertal
  • 2010 “Everything different again” Ruhr Museum , Essen
  • 2011 “Interim storage” - purchases by the City of Zurich / Helmhaus
“From A to Z” The photographic collection of the Ruhr Museum Essen
  • 2012 “body language” works from the Fotomuseum Winterthur Collection / center culturelle suisse de Paris
"Traumwelten-in the court of the king of dreams" Kunsthalle HGN Duderstadt
  • 2013 “Dressing - Dressing up” pictures from the photographic collection. Folkwang Museum.
"World Travel. Art from Germany on the way. " Institute for Foreign Relations at the ZKM Karlsruhe
  • 2014 "1974 ... 40 YEARS. 40 PHOTOGRAPHS." Kicking Berlin
  • 2015 "Above water. Painting and photography from William Turner to Olafur Eliasson" Bucerius Kunst Forum
"The triangle of love" Helmhaus Zurich
"Allure" photographs from the Susanne von Meiss Collection. C / O Berlin
"Given. Purchased. Found", purchases and gifts from the past 10 years. City Museum Munich
"The rebellious picture" Museum Folkwang , Essen
"And suddenly this vastness" Sprengel Museum Hannover
"Shenzhen International Photography Week", Shenzen Art Museum , China
"Photography in West Germany 1945-2000", Kunsthalle Erfurt
"Highlights", Galerie Kicken , Berlin
"Shine on me - we and the sun", German Hygiene Museum , Dresden
Wolfgang Schulz and the photo scene around 1980
"Uniform" Into the work / out of the work, Fondazione Mast , Bologna, Italy
"Subject and Object. Photo Rhein Ruhr" Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf
"21.lettres.a.la.photographie@gmx.de", Folkwangmuseum , Essen

Collections (public)

Books

  • "Sex-Theater", Mahnert Lueg Verlag, Munich 1981
  • "Fluchtgedanken", Mahnert Lueg Verlag, Munich 1983
  • "The Leaning Tower of Pisa", Museum of Photography, Braunschweig 1986
  • "Amok" Verlag Spectorbooks Leipzig and cpress Zurich, 2014, ISBN 978-3-944669-81-6 .
  • "Sex-Theater" (expanded new edition from 1981) Verlag Spectorbooks Leipzig and cpress Zurich, 2015

Individual catalogs

  • "André Gelpke", Spectrum Gallery, Hanover 1975
  • "Carnival in Gürzenich", Munich City Museum , Photo Museum , Munich 1981
  • "Heim-Weh", Institute for Foreign Relations, Berlin 1987
  • “Contamination”, Siemens photo project, Siemens AG, Munich 1991

Publications in books

  • “Imaginations and Reality”, Wienand Verlag, Cologne 1980
  • “New Paths in Photography”, International Photo Symposium 1980, Mickeln Castle, Mahnert Lueg Verlag, Munich
  • “Das Deutsche Lichtbild”, Stuttgart, 1973/74/75/76/77/79
  • "The History of Photography in the 20th Century", DuMont Buchverlag , Cologne 1977
  • "Les Cahiers de la Photographie", Paris 1981
  • "Lexicon of Photographers", S. Fischer Verlag , Frankfurt 1981
  • "Dictionnaire des photographes", Paris 1982
  • “Fotografia Europea Conteporanea”, Milan 1983
  • "Encyclopedie Internationale des Photographes 1883-1983", Geneva 1984
  • "Shine and misery of the body", Friborg 1988
  • “The autonomization of photography”, Marburg 1987
  • "BilderLust", Edition Braus, Heidelberg 1991
  • "Siemens Photo Project", Ernst and Son, Berlin 1993
  • "Photography of the 20th Century", Museum Ludwig , Taschen Verlag-Köln 1996
  • "Die Klasse", Edition Museum für Gestaltung Zürich 1996
  • "The promise of photography", Prestel Verlag , Munich
  • “Staging and the urge to gain recognition”, Edition Museum für Gestaltung Zürich 1998

Publications in catalogs (extract)

  • Galerie Lichttropfen, general catalog, Aachen 1974
  • Galerie Schürmann & Kicken, general catalog, Aachen 1976
  • “Action, Illustration, Feature - Examples of Photo Journalistic Photography”, Museum Folkwang , Essen 1978
  • "Essener Art Scene", Gruga , Essen 1979
  • Sander Gallery, General Catalog, Washington DC 1979
  • "Venezia79 - La Fotografia", Venice 1979
  • "Photographs Europe No.1", Benteler Galleries, Houston, Texas 1979
  • "German Photography after 1945", Fotoforum Kassel 1979
  • “Imaginations and Reality”, Leverkusen City Museum 1980
  • "Artists use photography - today", Kunstverein Köln 1982
  • “Portraits from Post-War Germany”, Goethe-Institut, Munich 1982
  • "Photographies en Allemagne 1920–1982", Sixième festival photographique, Besançon 1982
  • "The Federal Republic - contemporary German photographers see their country", Kunstmuseum Hannover 1982
  • "The Photographic Collection", Museum Folkwang, Essen 1989
  • “Steinert and Students”, Folkwang Museum, Essen 1990
  • "Antwerpen93", Antwerp 1993
  • "Contemporary German Photography", Museum Folkwang, Essen 2003
  • “What I saw of you and what I was told about you” Museum Folkwang, Essen 2003
  • "World tour, art from Germany on the move", Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe 2013
  • "Brave new FRG?", Museum of Photography, Braunschweig
  • “About Water”, Bucerius Kunst Forum , Hamburg 2015
  • "Private Exposure", Olbricht Collection , Berlin 2016
  • "Workshop for Photography 1976-1986", Folkwang Museum Essen , C / O Berlin , Sprengel Museum Hanover

Literature (sources)

  • "The History of Photography in the 20th Century", DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1977
  • "Les Cahiers de la Photographie", Paris 1981
  • "Lexicon of Photographers", S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 1981
  • "Dictionnaire des photographes", Paris 1982
  • “Fotografia Europea Conteporanea”, Milan 1983
  • "Photography of the 20th Century", Museum Ludwig, Taschen Verlag-Köln 1996
  • "Die Klasse", Edition Museum für Gestaltung Zürich 1996
  • "The promise of photography", Prestel Verlag, Munich
  • "Encyclopedie Internationale des Photographes 1883-1983", Geneva 1984

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personal data
SURNAME Gelpke, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Beienrode