Christine Wurm
Christine Wurm (* 1939 in Darmstadt as Christine Staudigl ) is a German photographer .
life and work
Christine Staudigl learned the profession of photographer after visiting the Bergstrasse school village in Darmstadt. She then attended Marta Hoepffner's private photography school in Hofheim am Taunus , which she graduated with excellent results.
Between 1962 and 1964 she portrayed well-known people from the literary and art scene, preferably in their ancestral surroundings. For this purpose she traveled u. a. France, Spain and Italy, to photograph personalities like Picasso , Chagall , Dalí or WS Maugham in black and white.
In Darmstadt she was able to a. win over the Büchner Prize winners from 1963 and 1964, HM Enzensberger and Ingeborg Bachmann , for portraits.
The high quality and simultaneous intimacy of the photos led to publications in various photography and art magazines; However, no exhibitions by the photographer are known from this period.
She gave up working as a photographer when she married; only in 1984 did Christine Wurm pick up the camera again to portray the artist Joseph Beuys at work.
It was only after more than 40 years that the Darmstadt art archive rediscovered her artist portraits, which were considered timeless, and presented them to the public in an exhibition in 2010, which the artist also enriched with private memorabilia and work receipts.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: The art archive shows black and white photographs from the 1960s by Christine Wurm from Darmstadt
- ↑ Master of the Light . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of August 4, 2010, p. 37.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Worm, christine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Staudigl, Christine (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |