Ernst Scheidegger

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Ernst Scheidegger (2012)

Ernst Scheidegger (born November 30, 1923 in Rorschach ; † February 16, 2016 in Zurich ) was a Swiss photographer , painter and publisher .

Live and act

Ernst Scheidegger visited in Zurich at Hans Finsler the photography class. Ernst Scheidegger went in and out of Alberto Giacometti's Paris studio as a photographer and friend . As a photo reporter, he traveled to the Arab world , India and the Far East for the Magnum photo agency . When Scheidegger accompanied Khrushchev's trip to India in 1954 , Robert Capa stepped in instead of reporting from the Indochina War .

As an artist, his work brought him together with Fernand Léger , Cartier-Bresson , Max Bill , Werner Bischof , Richard Paul Lohse and Man Ray . As early as 1943 he made recordings of Alberto Giacometti's studios in Maloja , Stampa and Paris and published them in 1958 as a book together with his autobiographical and poetic texts in Arche Verlag . Scheidegger worked from 1959 to 1960 as a lecturer in visual design at the College of Design in Ulm . He has also worked with film directors Gregory Ratoff and John Huston ( Moby Dick ). From 1960 to 1988 he was a photo editor for the weekend supplement of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung .

In 1962 he founded the "Verlag Ernst Scheidegger"; the first book to appear was the German translation of Jean Genet's L'Atelier d'Alberto Giacometti under the title Alberto Giacometti . This was later followed by numerous other publications on Giacometti and other important artists. Since 1997 the publisher has been operating as “ Verlag Scheidegger und Spiess ”.

Some of his Alberto Giacometti photographs were exhibited at the Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica , California in 2008 .

Scheidegger's collection of 87 original prints by his colleagues from the Magnum period was acquired by the Museum Folkwang Essen in 2013 . On the occasion of his 90th birthday, the museum showed a selection from its collection with photographs by Werner Bischof , Robert Capa , Henri Cartier-Bresson , Ernst Haas , George Rodger , Ruth Orkin , David Seymour and Ernst Scheidegger.

Awards

  • 2011: Grand Design Prize of the Swiss Confederation for Photography
  • 2013: Gold Medal of Honor of the Canton of Zurich

Publications

  • Poetry painters, painting poets , August 3 - October 20, 1957. Exhibition catalog. Kunstverein St. Gallen, Die Arche, Zurich 1957, DNB 454323344 (An anthology with 180 illustrations from Goethe, Gottfried Keller, Eichendorff to Hermann Hesse, Garcia Lorca and Friedrich Dürrenmatt. With poems by Modigliani and others. Exhibition Malende organized by the Kunstverein St. Gallen Poets - poetic painters , designed by Ernst Scheidegger).
  • Traces of a friendship , Scheidegger and Spiess, Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-85881-059-2 .

• Bilderwelt-Weltbilder, a video with and about Ernst Scheidegger by Franziska Wirz and Otmar Schmid from 2002

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Scheidegger died at the age of 92. In: Liechtensteiner Vaterland , February 18, 2016.
  2. ↑ Information on the exhibition (in English, with comments on Scheidegger's acquaintance with Giacometti); Exhibited works
  3. ↑ Museum Folkwang Exhibitions website , accessed on October 27, 2013
  4. ↑ Grand Design Prize of the Swiss Confederation for Photography awarded to Ernst Scheidegger in 2011
personal data
SURNAME Scheidegger, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss photographer, painter and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Rorschach
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 2016
Place of death Zurich