Arno Fischer (photographer)

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The photographer Arno Fischer in a photo taken by his Berlin colleague Werner Bethsold

Arno Fischer (born April 14, 1927 in Berlin-Wedding ; † September 13, 2011 in Neustrelitz ) was a German photographer and university professor .

Life

From 1947 to 1953 Arno Fischer studied sculpture in East and West Berlin . In 1953 he moved to East Berlin. From 1954 he worked as a photo lab technician until he became an assistant in 1956 and a senior assistant in 1971 with a teaching assignment for photography with Professor Klaus Wittkugel at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art .

The book Situation Berlin , which he wrote and was ready to print , a project from 1953 to 1960, was not produced because of the construction of the Wall in 1961.

Fischer worked as a photographer and publicist for the magazine Sibylle and other periodicals. His oeuvre, consisting mainly of fashion and travel photography, follows the tradition of life photography . Fischer was particularly interested in the state of society, the relationships between people and the existential constitution of the individual.

In 1965/1966 he and like-minded people founded a group of photographers that has been called Direkt since 1969 . 1972 to 1974 he was a guest lecturer at the University of Graphic and Book Art (HGB) Leipzig. In 1983 he was given a teaching position at the HGB. From 1985 to 1993 he was professor for artistic photography there.

From 1990 to 2000 he was teaching photo journalism at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences .

In 2000 he received the Erich Salomon Prize of the German Society for Photography (DGPh). The working group photography in the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR (VBK) was co-founded by him.

He was one of the style-forming photographers for the German Democratic Republic with his fashion shoots for the magazines Das Magazin and Sibylle - magazine for fashion and culture . Among other things, he selected the photographs for the steles of the Marx-Engels-Forum in Berlin-Mitte.

As a co-founder of the private photography school photography on Schiffbauerdamm (fas) in Berlin, he taught there until 2006. Subsequently, he taught at the Ostkreuz School of Photography , also in Berlin, until his death .

tomb

Since 1985 he was married to the photographer Sibylle Bergemann (1941-2010). Arno Fischer lived and worked in Gransee near Berlin. He died on September 13, 2011 at the age of 84. He and his wife are buried in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder communities in Berlin-Mitte.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1985: Friedrichshain Photo Gallery, Berlin, photographs from four decades
  • 1995: Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, USA, Berlin - Before the Wall
  • 1996: Vidéothèque de Paris, Paris, France, Arno Fischer
  • 1997: State Gallery Moritzburg , Halle / Saale, Arno Fischer. Photographs
  • 1998: Galerie Zimmer, Düsseldorf, Arno Fischer. East-West Berlin and other photographs 1943–1990
  • 2000: House of Photography, Hanover, Arno Fischer. Photographs 1943–1989
  • 2002: Literature Forum in the Brecht House (Berlin)
  • 2002: Galerie Rosenkranz, Chemnitz, Arno Fischer. The garden
  • 2005: Argus fotokunst gallery, Berlin, New York views 1978 and 1984
  • 2006: Galeria Miejska we Wrocławiu, Wrocław; Centrum Kultury Zamek, Galeria “pf” Poznań, Poland, Arno Fischer. photography
  • 2006: Comptoir-Kunstmagazin - Städtische Galerie, Sonneberg, Arno Fischer. New York. Photographs 1978/1984
  • 2007: Leonhardi Museum Dresden, Arno Fischer. The garden
  • 2007: Argus fotokunst gallery, Berlin, Arno Fischer. Portrait photographs
  • 2007: Galerie Pankow , Berlin, Arno Fischer. On the way. photography
  • 2008: Moritzburg Foundation - Art Museum of the State of Saxony-Anhalt , Arno Fischer. The garden
  • 2009: Robert Morat Gallery, Hamburg, Arno Fischer. The garden
  • 2009: Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany; Art Museum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus ; An exhibition by the Institute for Foreign Relations e. V .; Arno Fischer. Retrospective
  • 2010/2011: Berlinische Galerie - photographs 1953–2006. Hannah Höch Prize 2010
  • 2010/2011: Hall of Exhibitions, Salamanca / Spain; Art Museum, Santander / Spain; An exhibition by the Institute for Foreign Relations e. V. (ifa)
  • 2012: Muzeum Historii Fotografii w Krakowie / Museum of the History of Photography Krakow; An exhibition by the Institute for Foreign Relations e. V. (ifa)
  • 2012/16. August - 9th September: "ARNO FISCHER - Visit" in the gallery SPRECHSAAL (Berlin - Mitte).
  • 2012: State Museum and Exhibition Center ROSFOTO St. Petersburg; An exhibition by the Institute for Foreign Relations e. V. (ifa)

Group exhibitions

  • 1982: Exhibition center on Fučíkplatz, Dresden, art exhibition of the GDR
  • 1984: Altes Museum, Berlin, everyday life and epoch. Works of fine art from the GDR from thirty-five years
  • 1986: State art collections, Cottbus, photography in the art of the GDR
  • 1987: Arles, France, Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie photo festival
  • 1990: Braga, Portugal, Encontros da imagem photo festival
  • 1991: Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Königswinter (with Ulrich Wüst)
  • 1991: Centro Andaluz de la Fotografía, Almería, Spain, Imagina, un proyecto en torno a la fotografía
  • 1991: Center Régional de la Photographie Nord, Pas-de-Calais, Douchy-les-Mines France Berlin 1943–1990 d'Arno Fischer
  • 1992: Berlinische Galerie, State Museum for Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, Berlin, Nothing is as simple as it seems. East German photography 1945–1989
  • 1992–1999: Touring exhibition of the Institute for Foreign Relations e. V., (ifa) in 16 countries and 33 cities, status reports. German photography from the 50s to 80s in East and West
  • 1993: Lisbon, Portugal, Mês da Fotograia photo festival
  • 1997: Berlinische Galerie, State Museum for Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, Berlin, positions of artistic photography in Germany since 1945
  • 1998: Galerie am Fischmarkt, Erfurt, Signatures of the Visible - A Century of Photography in Germany
  • 1999: Kunstverein Ludwigshafen am Rhein , Between Abstraction and Reality - Photography of the 1950s
  • 2000: Friedrichshain Photo Gallery, Berlin, fifteen years of photography
  • 2002: Berlinische Galerie, State Museum for Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, Berlin Pairings - Artistic Positions in Dialog
  • 2003: Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig, Public Private. The image of the private in German post-war photography
  • 2004: Théâtre de la Photographie et de l'Image, Nice, France, La photographie allemande
  • 2004: Apartment at Schiffbauerdamm 12, Berlin, F inissage. Farewell to the Schiffbauerdamm
  • 2005: Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin, Utopia and Reality - East German Photography 1956–1989
  • 2006: Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; New National Gallery, State Museums in Berlin, Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin, Tokyo-Berlin / Berlin-Tokyo - The Art of Two Cities
  • 2006: Robert Morat Gallery, Hamburg, Sibylle Bergemann. Arno Fischer. Photographs
  • 2006: Städtische Galerie, Sonneberg, Sibylle Bergemann. Arno Fischer. Photographs
  • 2007: Cornerhouse Manchester - International Center for Contemporary Visual Arts and Film, Manchester; University of Hertfordshire Galleries, Hatfield, UK, Do Not Refreeze. Photography behind the Berlin Wall
  • 2008: Edition Braus Wachter Verlag Galerie, Heidelberg, Menschenbilder. Sibylle Bergemann, Arno Fischer
  • 2008: Art Space in the German Bundestag, Berlin, From Art and Politics. Photography in the collection of the German Bundestag
  • 2008: Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, Great Britain, Do Not Refreeze - Photography Behind the Berlin Wall
  • 2008: Städelsches Art Institute and Municipal Gallery, Frankfurt a. M., REAL - From the DZ BANK collection
  • 2009: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA / Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg; German Historical Museum, Berlin, Art of Two Germanys / Cold War Cultures; Art and War / German Positions 1945–89
  • 2009: Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Art and Revolt '89. Transition society. Portraits and scenes 1980–1990
  • 2010: Eros and Stasi. East German Photography Collection Gabriele Koenig. Ludwig Forum for International Art , Aachen
  • Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic, Germany, Bonn, German Photography. Power of a medium. 1870-1970
  • 7th International Photo Days Mannheim / Ludwigshafen, The Art of Being German
  • 2016: Time held. Ursula Arnold , Arno Fischer, Evelyn Richter , Museum of Fine Arts , Leipzig. Likewise in 2016: The teaching. Arno Fischer, Evelyn Richter . Art gallery of the Sparkasse Leipzig . Common catalog.

Works in public and private collections

Honors

literature

  • Arno Fischer, TO Immisch, Klaus E. Göltz: Arno Fischer, photographs . Connewitzer Verlag-Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-928833-93-6 .
  • Arno Fischer. Photography. Institute for Foreign Relations (ifa), texts: Matthias Flügge, Thomas Martin. Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-7757-2548-4 .
  • Ulrich Domröse (Ed.): Arno Fischer. Situation in Berlin. Photographs 1953–1960. (German / English), Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung Berlin and Berlinische Galerie, State Museum for Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-87584-096-8 .
  • Arno Fischer: New York. Views. 150 photographs. With a text by Heiner Müller . Berlin 1988. Illustrated book with 168 pages, ISBN 3-353-00344-4 .
  • Short biography for:  Fischer, Arno . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Art does not come from artificiality in FAZ from August 1, 2016, page 15
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Arno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 2011
Place of death Neustrelitz