Gosta Hellner

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Gösta Hellner (born December 26, 1937 in Münster / Westphalia ) is a German scientific photographer and visual artist .

Live and act

As the son of the surgeon Hans Hellner (1900–1976), he learned painting from Fritz Winter (1905–1976) and practiced photography from Heinrich Heidersberger (1906–2006) in Braunschweig . In 1958 he began studying at the Bavarian State College for Photography . In the meantime, he gained professional experience at Bertelsmann- Verlag in Gütersloh , where he mainly worked in advertising and aerial photography , and returned to Munich with the aim of completing the master's examination .

After graduating, he moved to Greece in 1962 . There, as the successor to Eva-Maria Czakó , he took over the photography position at the German Archaeological Institute for about 25 years and thus devoted himself to archaeological photography, specializing in the area of ​​ancient sculpture. In collaboration with well-known archaeologists of his time (such as Emil Kunze , Semni Karouzou , Lila Maragkou and others), he photographed the Koren des Erechteion of Athens at night (1973), the Eupalinos tunnel on Samos (1974) and others. In collaboration with Franz Willemsen , the Attic shards of the so-called shards court, called “ ostracism ” in ancient Greek , are photographed (1963). Most of the photographs are now digitized and can be accessed via the Arachne archaeological object database . From 1984 Gösta Hellner devoted himself exclusively to the fine arts.

In 2008 Gösta Hellner was honored in the exhibition “The creative photograph in Archeology” of the Benaki Museum Athens for photographing ancient plastic in his special way of seeing . His photographs were used, among other things, for the “Caryatid Hairstyling Project” at the University of Fairfield .

Publications

  • Archaeological recordings in the photo library of the German Archaeological Institute, Athens.
  • together with Frank Brommer , Eva-Maria Czakó: The Metopes of the Parthenon: Catalog and investigations . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1967.
  • together with Wolf-Dieter Heilmeyer : Early Olympic clay figures . (= Olympic Research, Vol. 7.) de Gruyter, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-11-003962-1 .
  • together with Wolf-Dieter Heilmeyer : Early Olympic bronze figures: The animal votive . (= Olympic Research, Volume 12.) ISBN 3-11-007208-4 .
  • together with Ilse Kleemann: Early Movement: Investigations into the archaic form up to the appearance of the ponderation in Greek art . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1984, ISBN 3-8053-0511-7 .
  • Το πρώτο μου ταξίδι στην Ελλάδα, 1962-1965. Τοπία, αρχαιολογικοί χώροι και σκηνοθετημένα γλυπτά . Exhibition catalog of the Kaireios library of Andros, Andros 2012, ISBN 978-960-7709-34-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Lauter: The Koren des Erechteion . In: by Walter H. Schuchhardt, Felix Eckstein (Hrsg.): Antike Plastik . No. 16 . Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1976.
  2. ^ Hermann J. Kienast: The tunnel of the Eupalinos on Samos . In: Barry v. Bergdoll, Andreas Schwarting, Klaus Tragbar (Ed.): Architectura. Journal for the history of architecture . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin, Munich 1977, p. 97-116 .
  3. ^ F. Schubert, S. Grunauer-von Hoerschelmann, (Ed.): Archeology and Photography. Fifty examples of history and method . Philipp von Zabern Verlag, Mainz am Rhein 1978, ISBN 3-8053-0386-6 , p. 18, 26, 42 .
  4. ^ Franz Willemsen: Ostraka . In: Communications from the German Archaeological Institute, Athenian Department . tape 80 . Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1965, p. 100-126 .
  5. ^ Gösta Hellner in the Arachne database. Retrieved January 15, 2019 .
  6. ^ Mavrommatis Sokratis (Ed.): The creative photograph in archeology . Benaki Museum, Athens 2008, ISBN 978-960-476-007-7 , p. 56 (English).
  7. ^ Katherine A. Schwab: Caryatid Hairstyling Project. In: Fairfield University. Retrieved January 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hellner, Gosta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scientific photographer and visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster