Dieter End

Dieter End (born March 10, 1953 in Fürth , Germany ) is a contemporary artistic photographer .

Life

Dieter End lives and works in Fürth. After graduating from school, he completed an apprenticeship as a photographer from 1970 to 1973. 1982 had his first photo exhibition in the poster shop in Nuremberg, where female and male nude photographs were shown. The representation of male nudes in photography was still a taboo break in Europe in the early 1980s and was almost exclusively found among American photographers. Since those beginnings, Dieter End has changed from a traditional nude photographer to a designer of staged photography with and without nudes.

Formally, End's work can essentially be divided into the following forms of representation, which have been his preferred stylistic device since the 1980s :

Staged panels are images created using photography, which recreate events from everyday life, history, myth or the imagination of the artist in charge.

Narrative sequences tell stories in several images, whereby the image message for the viewer is created quasi filmically; the intention of the content is mostly unreal and similar to the tableaus.

The photographer, who has been part of the Professional Association of Visual Artists (BBK) Bavaria since 1989 , has changed from a traditional nude photographer to a designer of staged photography with and without nudes and penetrates his photographic objects with the mind's eye long before he stages them, takes pictures and then digitally processed. This extremely conceptual and at the same time technically highly developed approach leads to an extraordinary intelligibility and artificiality of the (images). The photos alternate between image and original and thus acquire an originality and radiance that you otherwise only perceive in paintings . They are irritating, magical photographs that lead from the eye to feeling and mind to a new, enlightened perspective.

Works and projects

Dieter End has repeatedly lived through long-term projects that sort of periodically structure his work. Creative collaborations often last for years, both with models and with supporting protagonists .

In the first half of the nineties a collaboration with various travesty artists arose . Now the pictures and sequences have become true happenings that radiate strength and joie de vivre, a new emotionality makes the pictures shine. New stylistic devices are used and the furnishing of the scenes with costumes, props and backdrops create a theatrical expression.

Starting in 2002, the happenings will be transformed into a cooler, more mature style with the artist group endkunst . Mainly topics of the new century are conveyed, the examination of the contents becomes more critical.

Together with endkunst , Dieter End stages pictures that raise questions by showing much more than just a surface. Mythological and archaic motifs can be found in it as well as associations, experiences and emotions of the protagonists. The photos want to be deciphered and have a stimulating effect.

As part of this collaboration, dream-real encounters 1 to 3 were created . Dream and reality are expressed in these theatrical productions. The room becomes a stage, the objects become decorations and the actors become actors. The pieces that are played emerge again and again in a void that is fed by the imagination, spontaneity and individuality of those involved. The members of End's group meet between the conscious and the unconscious, between reality and simulation and thus fulfill the concept of staged photography as a post-modern art form. These picture happenings are sensual irritations, erotic escapades, sexual references to the alienation of the sexes from one another. He groups women and men in picturesque places, each of whom veils or veils themselves. In doing so, he creates, often through action sequences, unreal, dream-real situations and statements that stimulate further thinking and feeling further and thus include your own imagination.

Also with endkunst , two self-contained projects with a Christian church background are being created; on the one hand the Passion of Christ and the Human Cross Action .

In close cooperation with the employees of the Frauenkirche in Nuremberg, the Passion of Christ was created , a cycle with five main pictures and seven secondary pictures, which were presented on the Easter holidays in March 2005 with projected, hung and living pictures. They alienate and encourage an intensive discussion. The photos and scenic images link the stations on the Passionsweg and link up to Easter morning. The message of the pictures is obvious: belief in the resurrection, skepticism or doubt.

The images of the human cross were taken from the tower of the Nuremberg Frauenkirche on March 12, 2006 at 11:15 a.m. with the chime of the bell. The picture was created in cooperation with the community on the main market in Nuremberg, in order to set an example with a living cross with 240 people during Lent .

In 2007 a series of portraits by the Nuremberg narrator Ulla Konold was commissioned. The result is of such convincing quality for both the artist and the model that the exhibition “Pink Clouds” with texts by Ulla Konold on the pictures by Dieter End emerged, which is presented to the public several times.

It is also worth mentioning that Dieter End is always open to new media and forms of presentation. Among other things, he designed wine labels with his pictures or designed wall designs in company rooms.

In 2008 the first experiments with moving images were made. The video art could be a new facet to the work of the artist. The further development remains to be seen.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

"pink clouds" - portraits by Ulla Konold

in the Vineria Nuremberg, March 2008
in the offices of the law firm Dr. Cruiser Nuremberg, November 2007

Staged panels in the art showcase "art" in the City-Center Fürth in October 2007

"Distant Beloved" in the Kulturalon Hauptbahnhof Nürnberg with endkunst in January 2006

"Passion Christi" action and exhibition with endkunst in the Frauenkirche in Nuremberg in March 2005

"Dream Real Encounters 3" gallery "Das Studio" in Nuremberg with endkunst in January 2005

"Real dream encounters 2" in the business building in Nuremberg with endkunst in May 2004

"Real dream encounters 1" Deutschherrnkarréin Nuremberg with endkunst in April 2003

Exhibition in the Orlando House in Munich in January 2000

Exhibition at Galerie Pöll in Fürth in October 1998

Exhibition at the Museum Galerie in Nuremberg in May 1997

Exhibition in the Loft in Nuremberg in June 1995

Exhibition at the Hirsch in Nuremberg in February 1995

Exhibition at Balazzo Brozzi in Nuremberg, April 1994

Exhibition in the Männertreu gallery in Nuremberg in October 1993

Exhibition in the Loft in Nuremberg in December 1991

Exhibition in the gallery with the blue door, Pettensiedel, June 1990

Exhibition in the Fatal in Nuremberg in September 1989

Exhibition The Works in Fürth in June 1987

Exhibition in the poster shop in Nuremberg in January 1986

Exhibition in the poster shop in Nuremberg in December 1982

Group exhibitions

GoHo -Gostenhofer atelier and workshop days in Nuremberg

Exhibition at Patricia in October 2007
Exhibition at FORM5 in October 2005
Exhibition at Patricia in October 2005
Exhibition in October 2003

Joint exhibition with "PHOTOPIA" in the Z building in Nuremberg in June 2003

Participation in various group exhibitions, including in the Erlangen head clinic, culture exchanges in Erlangen, events of the "Art" Nuremberg

Publications

Publications in various magazines and specialist books such as People & Portrait and nude photography by Augustus-Verlag.
So far, three postcard series with 24 motifs each have been published.
Speech by Dr. Reinhard Knodt , held on April 27, 2005 for the opening of the exhibition "Dream Real Encounters 2" by the artist group endkunst in Deutschherrnkarree Nuremberg.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME	End, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 10, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fuerth , Germany