Gunther Galinsky

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Gunther Galinsky (born May 26, 1938 in Freiberg ; † March 16, 2019 ) was a German mining engineer and photographer.

Life

Gunter Galinsky learned the trade of miner , trained as a mining engineer from 1958 and then worked at VEB GFE Freiberg. In 1992 he founded his own engineering office.

He discovered his interest in photography at the age of twelve when he first got a camera in his hand. In 1962 he successfully took part in the first district photo show in Freiberg. A year later he became a member of the Freiberg Photography Working Group of the Kulturbund der GDR (today: Freiberger Fotofreunde ), from 1965 to 2015 he was its director. From 1968 to 1992, alongside his job, he was a theater photographer at the Freiberg City Theater .

Galinsky took part in numerous competitions and exhibitions at home and abroad and was involved in many book publications. He was honored u. a. with the honorary title Artiste FIAP (1979), with the Freiberg Citizens' Prize (1999) and the gold medal of the German Association for Photography (1999).

Book publications (selection)

  • Monuments: a booklet on historical, artistic and mining monuments in the Freiberg district (1977)
  • Freiberg (1978)
  • Freiberg photographs from the time of the bourgeois-democratic revolution to the end of the Weimar Republic (1985)
  • Freiberg Mining: Technical Monuments and History (1986)
  • Freiberg: when the chimneys were still smoking; Photo documents between 1945 and 1989 (2001)
  • Three Brothers Shaft Cavern Power Plant  : History and Considerations for Reconstruction (2001)
  • Silbermanns Erben: Views, Stories, Anecdotes (2003)
  • Discoveries in the Freiberg district: from Augustusburg to Zethau (2004)
  • Freiberg - already forgotten? Photo documents between 1967 and 2009 (2009)
  • City Guide Freiberg: Sightseeing, interesting facts, entertaining facts about the historic old town of Freiberg (2009)
  • Freiberg: in the middle of Saxony (2010)
  • 850 years Freiberg (2012)
  • Freiberg - the festival year (2012)
  • Above and below ground: mining photography from the Freiberg Revier (2015)

literature

  • Sabine Ebert : miner and photographer: for the 60th from Gunther Galinsky . In: The 1998 yearbook for the Freiberg region . Pp. 35-37
  • Claus Mildner: Gunther Galinsky - 40 years head of Freiberg Photo Friends . In: The 2004 yearbook for the Freiberg region . Pp. 92-93
  • Antje Albrecht, Constanze Lenk: Without silver there are no pictures - special photo exhibition in the Freiberg Museum . In: The 2018 yearbook for the Freiberg region , pp. 92–93

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Antje Albrecht, Constanze Lenk: No pictures without silver - special photo exhibition in the Freiberg Museum . In: The 2018 yearbook for the Freiberg region , pp. 92–93
  2. ↑ a b Obituary of the Freiberg photo friends
personal data
SURNAME Galinsky, Gunther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mining engineer and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiberg
DATE OF DEATH 16th March 2019