Angelika Platen

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Angelika Platen (born February 19, 1942 in Heidelberg ) is a German photographer and known for her artist portraits .

life and work

Angelika Platen studied art history , Romance studies and Oriental studies at the Free University of Berlin and then photography at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts . In 1968 she started working as a photographer and photo journalist . In 1969 she showed her photos for the first time in the artist gallery “Die Insel” under the title “Artists are only people” . From 1970 to 1972 she worked as a journalist for the business section "Art as Goods" of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . From 1972 to 1976 she was in charge of the "Galerie an der Milchstraße" in Hamburg, owned by Gunter Sachs .

During this time, around 100 photo portraits of young artists were created who began their careers at that time and some of which are world-famous today. The painters , sculptors , conceptual and object artists show their work in their respective artistic context: they were photographed by Angelika Platen in a characteristic ambience or in unusual locations. The most important works include the series of pictures about Sigmar Polke , Blinky Palermo and Gerhard Richter , as well as the portraits of Georg Baselitz , Joseph Beuys , Christo , Walter de Maria , Dan Graham , James Rosenquist , Günther Uecker and Andy Warhol . At the end of the 1970s, the photographer moved to Paris , where she worked as the head of a department for advertising and communication in the automotive industry.

In 1997 she resumed her photographic studies, which began phase II of her photographic activity without any break in style.

Since 1998 numerous artist portraits, especially of younger artists, have been created. These include Julian Rosefeldt , Thomas Struth , Neo Rauch , John Armleder , Christian Boltanski and Jeff Koons . In Phase II, Platen has now created new portraits of some of the newcomers at the time whom she portrayed in the 1960s / 70s, which give an interesting look at the established artists who are now getting older.

On the occasion of the 1998 exhibition “ Angelika Platen - Photo Works ”, the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main acquired a collection of photographs taken between 1968 and 1974. The illustrated book “Platen Artists” (Edition Stemmle), published for the opening of the exhibition, documents their photographic work from this period. In 2018, 180 portraits from her collection were exhibited in the Berlin Photography Museum.

Solo exhibitions

Works in public collections

  • Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main, Ben Vautier . Inv. No. 1998/121 and numerous other works

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angelika Platen's photo collection: Adoration of artists is always built close to ridiculousness, FAZ from July 4, 2018
  2. ^ Website Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
  3. ↑ Internet site of the MMK, Frankfurt am Main ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mmk-frankfurt.de
personal data
SURNAME Platen, Angelika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg