Erika Sulzer-Kleinemeier

Erika Sulzer-Kleinemeier (* 1935 in Rostock ) is a German photographer and journalist .

Life

Erika Sulzer-Kleinemeier studied photography and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe from 1955 . She has been working as a freelance photographer since the 1960s and publishes her work in numerous journals and magazines. In addition to her work as a photo journalist , she is the chairwoman of the Simonshof Foundation .

photography

In her more than 40 years of work as a photo journalist, Sulzer-Kleinemeier has distinguished herself as a close observer of her surroundings and of German post-war developments. Her intimate look at the powerful of the country, as well as at the unknown people on the street, moved the viewer in numerous exhibitions , as well as in book publications and innumerable publications in magazines, such as u. a. nationally in Der Spiegel , Stern , Die Zeit , Frankfurter Rundschau , Rheinischer Merkur , the daily newspaper , or internationally in the Washington Post , the Daily Telegraph and the Telegraph Magazine.

Simonshof Foundation

In 2001, Erika Sulzer-Kleinemeier and her husband, the architect and author Peter Sulzer , founded the Simonshof Foundation, which has made it its mission to promote art, culture , education and German-French cooperation and in cooperation with a museum for design is based in Gleisweiler in the south of the Palatinate . The foundation was established in memory of the couple's son, the designer Friedrich Sulzer (1962–2000), and is a public foundation with legal capacity under civil law and offers exhibitions, seminars and workshops .

Bibliography (selection)

• Photographs 1967 to 2007 , Frankfurt, M.: Stroemfeld, 2007, 1st ed.
• Grünstadt Jewish Cemetery , Grünstadt. - Grünstadt: city administration, 2004
• Lightweight wood construction , Stuttgart: Inst. For building construction, Chair 1 for building construction and design, 1990, 1st ed.
• Speyer-Leningrad via Brest-Minsk-Moscow , Neustadt: Verl. Pfälz. Post, 1987
• Jean Prouve. The Complete Works 1917-1933 (1923-1933) , J. Prouvé, P. Sulzer, E. Sulzer-Kleinemeier, Wasmuth Verlag; 1995
• Jean Prouve - Highlights 1917-1944 , P. Sulzer, E. Sulzer-Kleinemeier, Birkhäuser Verlag; 2002

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 1999: Moments of Current Affairs, Wolfsburg Art Association
• 2004: guest workers. Photographs 1969–1972, Historical Museum Frankfurt
• 2006: Erika Sulzer-Kleinemeier, Ursula Blickle Foundation
• 2007: Photographs 1967–2003, Freelens Galerie Hamburg
• 2007: Photographs 1967–2003, State Representation Rhineland-Palatinate in Berlin

Group exhibitions (selection)

• 2003: Public Private. The image of the private in German post-war photography, Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig
• 2004: Really True! Reality promise of photographs, Ruhr Museum in the coal washer
• 2008: 1968 - International, Willy Brandt House Berlin

Web links

• Literature by and about Erika Sulzer-Kleinemeier in the catalog of the German National Library
• Erika Sulzer-Kleinemeier. In: arch INFORM .
• ESK on artnet
• ESK at photography now
• Portrait about ESK at Deutschlandradio Kultur
• Portrait of ESK at Hessischer Rundfunk
• Portrait of the Simonshof Foundation
• Website of the museum and the Simonshof Foundation