Christian Scholz (photographer)

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Christian Scholz (born September 25, 1951 in Stockholm ) is a German photographer .

Professional background

Christian Scholz spent childhood and youth in Hamburg . From 1971 to 1977 he studied German at the Free University of Berlin ; since 1985 he has lived in Zurich .

Christian Scholz came to photography as an autodidact. A decisive factor in his development as a photographer was his acquaintance with Gerd Sander , the grandson of the German photographer August Sander , who himself also worked as a photographer and gallery owner. Initially, Scholz created photographic articles for magazines or travel essays (USA, France, Switzerland, Sweden, etc.). From 1990 he carried out small and large project assignments and designed art portfolios. As part of a conceptual project, he recently realized works with the titles Tierkörper (2005), Flugkörper (2008), Menschenkörper (2010) and Klangkörper (2011). In 2013 he produced his first DVD entitled "Body Colors".

Another part of his photographic work are series of works in color and black and white as well as portraits of people in black and white. This is how work cycles emerged, for example on Pipilotti Rist (2003) or on the writer WG Sebald (2004), who had a fatal accident in 2001. Other personalities that Christian Scholz portrayed include Josef Ackermann , Hans Magnus Enzensberger , Endo Anaconda , Martin Heller , Ernst Beyeler , Donald M. Hess , Patricia Highsmith , Durs Grünbein , Michael Ringier and Gerhard Meier .

In 2011, Der Spiegel wrote about Scholz: “His credo is like the old masters: 'No tripod, no assistance, no artificial light.' Black and white, without post-processing, without a cutout. "

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

2003
Art & Form Gallery ( Dresden ): water, colors, places
2007
Coalmine photo gallery ( Winterthur ): body. Cows work cycle
Kornfeld Gallery ( Bern ): Swiss artist. Photographic portraits
2008
Birgit Filzmaier: 19th & 20th Century Fine Art Photography, missiles
Galerie Susanne Rüegg ( Zurich ): In the face of literature

Group exhibitions

1999
German Literature Archive ( Marbach ): Portrait of Kafka
2005
Swiss National Library ( Bern ): From general to glamor girl. A portrait of Switzerland
2009
Association for Original Graphics (Zurich): Newer work / missiles

Publications

  • Swiss artist. Photographic portraits . Bern 2007.
  • "Pictures remain and live. Remembering WG Sebald. Portrait Photo Portfolio ”. In: Lise Patt: Searching for Sebald. Photography after WG Sebald . Los Angeles, Institute of Cultural Inquiry 2007.
  • Missile . Private print 2008.
  • Body . Basel, Schwabe 2011 (preface: Martin Heller).
  • "Insert". In: Gigon / Guyer: Architects. Works 2001-2011 . Baden, Lars Müller 2011, pp. 164–167.
  • "" But what is written is not a true document ": WG Sebald on photography and literature in conversation with Christian Scholz". In: Torsten Hoffmann (ed.): «On incredibly thin ice». Talks 1971-2001 . Frankfurt a. M., Fischer 2011.
  • The time of the camera . Basel, Schwabe 2013. ISBN 978-3796528958

literature

  • Susanne Bieri; Mechthild Heuser (ed.): From general to glamor girl. A portrait of Switzerland . Basel, Schwabe 2005.
  • Angelika Maass; Christian Scholz: “Attempt to visualize. The light writing art of Christian Scholz. ”In: Librarium . Zurich 2005. ll / lll, pp. 130-143.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Cows, Bodies, Wings". In: Der Spiegel , November 21, 2011, p. 133

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personal data
SURNAME Scholz, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm