Antje Hain

Antje Hain (* around 1943 in Munich ) is a German photographer who lives in Munich.

Life

Antje Hain was born as the third of five children to an artist couple in Munich-Schwabing . Her father was a portrait painter. From 1962 she trained as a photographer with Gabriele Countess von Arnim. She worked as an assistant for various fashion photographers, including Renata Ley-Riederer and Regina Relang, and soon received her first orders for the women's magazine Brigitte . In 1966 she took part in the master class at the State School for Photography under the presence of Hanna Seewald in Munich. Hain has been working as a freelance beauty and fashion photographer for international publishers since 1967 .

Between 1967 and 1970, Hain undertook several photo trips to African and Asian countries and from 1974 to 1980 had an employment contract as a theater photographer at the East Berlin Volksbühne under the direction of Benno Besson , Bertolt Brecht's assistant .

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Hain sometimes uses extremely large stage sets in her photographs. In her portraits she mainly shows women.

Exhibitions

• 1981 “Interplay of Faces”, Neuhausen Gallery, Munich
• 1986 “Hautnah”, group exhibition, Lothringer Strasse artist workshop, Munich
• 1993 "Naked Pictures", Galerie 54 F. Zimmermann, Munich
• 1996 “Naked”, Art Pavilion in the Old Botanical Garden, Munich
• 1999 "Longing for Passion", Kurhaus Wiesbaden Kolonnaden
• 2001 "Pictures from the Gold Cycle", KMS Wintergarten, Munich
• 2002 "Pictures and their faces", Altes Rathaus Landshut
• 2003 “Looking and Thinking” 10 Photographers from Germany, Old Library, Tongji University, Shanghai
• 2004 “Scarecrows”, art project on the subway basement Odeonsplatz, Munich
• 2005 “Infinite otherness”, Frauenkirche Erding
• 2006 "Glamor and Glamor - Desire and Reality", special exhibition at the Städtische Galerie Überlingen
• 2006 "Wesen", group exhibition, Seidlvilla, Munich
• 2007 "Karl Schmals and Antje Hain (father and daughter)", Arzmiller Gallery, Munich
• 2007 “Rausch”, group exhibition, Gerlinde Mader and Antje Hain, Orangery, Munich
• 2007 “August-Rausch”, Hotel Olympic, Munich, Hans-Sachs-Strasse
• 2010 “The Artist's Dream”, Goethe-Institut Munich
• 2011 “The sea and the waves of love”, Kurhaus Wiesbaden Kolonnaden
• 2012 Fasanerie, Berlin
• 2012 Longhouse, Wartaweil Ammersee
• 2013 "Heigis", Munich Olympic Center

Book publications

Antje Hain: Antje Hain . Damm and Lindlar Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-9815294-6-3 .

Web links

Website of the photographer: antjehain.de