Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer

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Gabriele Nothhelfer (born Zimmermann * March 5, 1945 in Berlin ) and Helmut Nothhelfer (* June 3, 1945 in Bonn ) are photographers and an artist couple .

Biographies

Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer were trained together at the Berlin Lette School (Department of Photography) from 1967 to 1969. They then studied at the Folkwang School of Design in Essen from 1969 to 1970.

Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer take photos of people in public. Occasions are usually festivals and other public events. Due to their continuous photographic practice, they have become important documentarists in German everyday history (readable from the time-bound plurality of clothing and the way in which the depicted persons portray themselves / themselves). They photograph individuals and groups in daylight in the surroundings found by the photographers, inconspicuously staged, yet with a clearly individual signature. In this respect, they work in a minimalist way and according to the row principle. Their tools are 35mm cameras .

reception

Michael Zimmermann writes in a volume edited by the gallery owners Ann and Jürgen Wilde about the photographer couple in 1983: “Every single picture comes from both emergency helpers. They learned the photographic gaze (which knows how to differentiate between the visible and the invisible) together, in years of discussion and controlled through practice with the camera. "

Works by the photographer couple are represented in many domestic and foreign collections.

Awards

  • 2012: David Octavius ​​Hill Medal of the Society of German Photographers / the German Photographic Academy combined with the art prize of the city of Leinfelden-Echterdingen

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1974 In the Bali Kino by Manfred Salzgeber, Berlin
  • 1976 Gallery Wilde, Cologne
  • 1977 documenta 6
  • 1977 A. Nagel Gallery, Berlin
  • 1977 Agathe Gaillard Gallery, Paris
  • 1978 Sander Gallery, Washington DC
  • 1979 Galerie 't Venster, Rotterdam
  • 1980 Folkwang Museum , Essen
  • 1983 Gallery Wilde, Cologne
  • 1985 Agathe Gaillard Gallery, Paris
  • 1986 Anita Neugebauer Gallery, Basel
  • 1987 Museum for Photography, Braunschweig
  • 1992 Bodo Niemann Gallery, Berlin
  • 1993 Agathe Gaillard Gallery, Paris
  • 1993 Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn
  • 1999 Poll Art Foundation, Berlin
  • 2001 Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
  • 2001 Galerie Berinson, Berlin
  • 2002 Galerie de France, Paris
  • 2003 Sprengel Museum , Hanover
  • 2004 "Human Images" Diane Arbus, August Sander, Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
  • 2005 30ème anniversaire de la Galerie Agathe Gaillard, Paris
  • 2005 Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer, Rétrospective 1973–2002, Center de la Photographie, Genève
  • 2006 Galerie Berinson, Berlin
  • 2007 “What does the jellyfish want?” Photographs from Man Ray to James Coleman, Museum Ludwig , Cologne
  • 2007 "The second avant-garde, The Photo Forum Kassel 1972 - 1982" Moritzburg Foundation, Halle (Saale)
  • 2009 Los Años 70. Fotografia y vida cotidiana, 70s. Photography and everyday life, Teatro Fernán Gómez , Madrid
  • 2009 Moments and Years, Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne
  • 2010 "Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography", The Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • 2010 La Revanche de l'Archive Photographique, Center de la Photographie, Genève
  • 2010 Pictures in Motion, Artists & Video / Film 1958–2010, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
  • 2011 A look at the collection, Feroz Gallery / Galerie Julian Sander, Bonn
  • 2013 Agathe Gaillard expose "Mémoires d'une galerie", invitée par agnès b. Paris
  • 2013 Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer: Walking among people, Kunsthalle Bremerhaven
  • 2014 Unbending and untamed. Documentary photography around 1979, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
  • 2016 Reloaded in Germany (II) Galerie Kicken Berlin
  • 2016 And suddenly this vastness, Workshop for Photography 1976–1986, Sprengel Museum Hannover
  • 2018 Doing the Document, photographs from Diane Arbus to Piet Zwart. The Bartenbach donation, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
  • 2019 Changing Views, 20 Years of Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam

Photo books (selection)

  • 1980 City portraits 1974–1979. Photographs by Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer. Exhibition catalog, Essen
  • 1983 Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer, Michael Zimmermann (preface): In- between spaces . Cologne
  • 1993 Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer, Klaus Honnef (foreword): Long moments . Bonn
  • 2009 Moments and Years, Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer. Texts by Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Claudia Schubert and Volker Scherliess . Publisher: Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur. Publishing house Schirmer / Mosel. Munich.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birthdays at Freddy Langer's: Thoughts are just breathing , in: FAZ , March 5, 2015, p. 11.
  2. ^ Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer, photographs from 1974 to 1982 in the Sprengelmuseum, Hanover "
  3. ↑ Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer - Moments and Years. In: photographie-sk-kultur.de. The Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, accessed on October 30, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Rudolf Kicken, web design: strangerthan.net ( http://strangerthan.net ), Heike Löer and vitaminb. ( http://www.vitaminb.de ), Stephan Hüsch: KICKEN BERLIN - photography works on paper. In: www.kicken-gallery.com. Retrieved May 5, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Changing Views - 20 Years of Art Collection Deutsche Börse is curated by Foam and the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation. In: foam.org. Foam Photography Museum Amsterdam, accessed October 30, 2019 .