Günter Standl

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Günter Standl (* 1963 in Teisendorf ) is a German photographer and artist .

life and work

Günter Standl comes from the old Standl family from the Salzburg region. His brother is the painter Hermann Standl . The National Geographic Magazine , which he read in his childhood when he was twelve, and the associated first photographic experiments , were decisive for his decision to become a photographer. In 1991 he took lessons from Eduardo Gil in reportage photography at the École nationale supérieure de la photographie in Arles . A short time later he dared to take the step into self-employment. This is followed by an illustrated book about Vienna for Bucher Verlag and worldwide reports for the travel magazine GLOBO . Subsequently, commissioned photographs are created, u. a. for Steigenberger , Dorma , Commerzbank , Daimler Chrysler , Volkswagen , Microsoft or Siemens . Magazines such as Merian , ADAC Spezial , GEO Saison , GQ , Spiegel , Brigitte , Capital , Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin , Die Zeit , Focus and Abenteuer & Reisen also commission him . He is a member of the LAIF photo agency. At the same time, Günter Standl devotes himself to artistic photography.

Almost as a leitmotif , he tries to capture the relationship between object and environment with his camera. In the STOP! LOOK! For example, he elevates coin-operated telescopes to a work of art by decontextualizing them and setting them in scene with the help of perspective and surface effects. They are semantically repurposed. The former, artistically simple everyday object is stripped of the mantle of the banal and instead given a sculptural aura. To this end he remarked to the magazine of the Süddeutsche Zeitung : " When the people were gone, the telescope became a sculpture ." The impetus for his exploration of telescopes was a trip to Bangkok . Since then, he has repeatedly photographed coin-operated telescopes as such on his travels around the world, especially when the crowd of tourists has drained and he can rediscover the object in a new context. In his series OFFSIGHTS , he proceeds in a similar methodical manner . With one eye for the at first glance inconspicuous, but nevertheless picture-worthy object on the edges of tourist paradises, he went as a silent observer on a tour d'horizon to Namibia , Brazil , Oman , Thailand , Spain , Australia , Italy , South Africa , Greenland , the Caribbean , Turkey and the Maldives . Here, too, the general characteristics of Günter Standl's factual style are a strict image structure with an often pronounced perspective effect, a formal language based on basic geometric shapes, an overly sharp drawing and an often subdued color scheme . Die Zeit compared these recordings with those of Martin Parr , but emphasized that Standl, in contrast to Parr, gives the pictures a melancholy touch instead of putting people in the foreground, as we know from Martin Parr.

Publications

Illustrated books

  • The most beautiful road bike tours in Europe , Bielefeld : Delius Klasing Verlag , 2015. (Text by Sven Bremer)
  • Almdorf Seinerzeit ... where love lives , Mammendorf : Pro Literatur Verlag , 2005 (text by Markus Kecht)
  • (with Alfons Schuhbeck and Sabine Zehringer): Berchtesgadener Land and Rupertiwinkel . Country, people, delicacies, Rosenheim: Edition Klaus G. Förg , 2004 (2 editions)
  • Noble craftsmanship , Rosenheim: Rosenheimer Verlag and Bayerischer Rundfunk , 2002 (text by Gabi Toepsch)
  • (with Klaus G. Förg ): Landshuter Hochzeit , Rosenheim: Rosenheimer Verlag, 2002 (text by Erich Stahleder)
  • Müller'sches Volksbad , Rosenheim: Rosenheimer Verlag, 2001 (text by Rupert Bachmann)
  • I wish you that, Rosenheim: Rosenheimer Verlag, 2000 (text by Helmut Zöpfl)
  • (with Kurt Schubert): Geheime Gartenparadiese , Rosenheim: Rosenheimer Verlag and Bayern 1 , 2000 (text by Gabi Toepsch)
  • Vienna. Metropolises of the world , Munich : Bucher Verlag , 1995 (text by Alfred Komarek )
  • Madeira. Acid beauty in the Atlantic , Rosenheim: Rosenheimer Verlag, 1994 (text by Kirsten Wulf)

Photo series in magazines

  • Kirchner, Beate: “ Padua instead of Florence ”. Published in: Adventure and Travel, January 2018, pp. 14–18
  • Grimm, Michael: “ An all about fire” - portrait by the Swiss sculptor Andreas Reichlin and his ring of fire . In: ALPS, March 2015, pp. 32–36
  • Hasenbeck, Marieke / Weberl, Herbert: " A cheer for the soloists" - portrait of Oliver Wesseloh, beer sommelier ". Published in: FOCUS Spezial, June 2014, pp. 66–67
  • Haegele, Anja: " Further, always further in winter wonderland " - Sella Ronda in South Tyrol ". Published in: MERIAN-Südtirol, August 2008, pp. 56–63
  • Meyer-Schefe, Petra: “Europe's most beautiful summer islands ” - Croatia , Losinj island . In: GEO Saison, August 2014, pp. 24–25, 29
  • Seiler, Christian: " From the plentiful" - top chefs and products. "Published in: ADAC Reisemagazin, Salzburger Land, July 2010, pp. 70–79
  • Bremer, Sven: “Mercilessly Beautiful” - Madeira Road Bike Tour . In: TOUR, January 2016, pp. 118–127
  • Hohenester, Andreas: “ Serengeti up close” - Tanzania . In: CAPITAL, July 2007, pp. 96–102
  • Keller, Veronika: "Spott und Spätzle" - portrait of cabaret artist Maxi Schafroth . Published in: MERIAN-Allgäu, June 2017, pp. 68–72
  • Wittmann, Angela: "Queen of the Night" - portrait of the thriller writer Ursula Poznanski . In: BRIGITTE, September 2017, pp. 112–116
  • Goergensl, Sven: “ Beirut - the city of forgetting” . Published in: FOCUS Reise Spezial, November 2010, pp. 04–09
  • Molzer, Kurt: " Cairo - El Kurt, the horror of the desert" . In: GQ, February 2005, pp. 182–185
  • Finger, Evelyn: "Just wait until it gets dark" - In the footsteps of Jean Paul . Published in: DIE ZEIT, March 2007, pp. 26–28
  • Unknown author: "Desert, wadis, white gold" - Oman . In: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC-Deutschland, December 2013, pp. 150–151
  • Pauly, Christoph: "An Uninvited Guest" - Croatia . Published in: DER SPIEGEL, 26/2013, pp. 74–75
  • Lueg, Andreas: “Dropouts and hermits in the land of the Carnation Revolution ” - Portugal, Alentejo . In: GLOBO, August 1995, pp. 94-108
  • Schaertl, Marika: “Mister Sushi” - portrait of celebrity chef Nabu Matsuhisa . In: FOCUS, 47/2016, pp. 122–126

Literature on the person

  • Schulze, Ludger: There is nothing to see here. The German photographer Günter Standl sharpens the view of the devices that block the view of all tourists: the observation telescopes. Published in: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin , issue 32/2015 Article online
  • Anonymous author: Softly tinted curiosities. When the sun is missing, the travel photographer Günter Standl goes in search of the more remote subjects. An exhibition is now showing his "offsights". Published on April 3, 2011 in: Die Zeit Article online
  • Anonymous author: Travel photographer Günther Standl: In the shadow of the postcard motifs. Published on March 3, 2011 in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Article online
  • Finger, Evlyn : The Future Prospects What the telescope shows - and what it doesn't show. Published in: Die Zeit , No. 21/2006 Article online
  • Anonymous author: exhibition. Touristic Places - The odd thing about traveling. Günter Standl. Published in: Die Zeit , No. 20/2006 Article online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Screenshot of the article in Die Zeit on the artist's page
personal data
SURNAME Standl, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Teisendorf