Gustav German

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Gustav German (2016)

Gustav Deutsch (born May 19, 1952 in Vienna ; † November 2, 2019 there ) was an Austrian film artist . He dealt with the phenomenology of the medium film and was a representative of the found footage film . In addition to film and video , his artistic fields of activity included photography , actions and installations as well as architecture .

Life

Gustav Deutsch attended elementary school and grammar school in Vienna. During his school days he began to work artistically as a draftsman, musician and photographer. After graduating from high school , German studied architecture at the Technical University of Vienna from 1970 . In 1976 he took an active part in the arena cast . As part of his studies, he worked on site for several months in the reconstruction work after the 1976 Friuli earthquake . He completed his studies in 1979 with a thesis on residential development on the Hohe Warte .

From 1980 onwards, as a member of the Medienwerkstatt Wien, Deutsch realized video works with a focus on experimental documentary films . The film director and theoretician Peter Tscherkassky classifies the Austrian avant-garde filmmakers based on the beginning of their careers. Tscherkassky therefore counts Gustav Deutsch, who became active in film at the beginning of the 1980s, to the "third generation" of Austrian avant-garde film, in which he also includes Martin Arnold , Dietmar Brehm , Mara Mattuschka , Lisl Ponger and himself.

Deutsch left the Medienwerkstatt Vienna in 1983 and became a member of the artist group Der Blaue Kompressor . Hanna Schimek had been his life partner since 1981 , with whom he also worked artistically from 1984. He initially used video and super-8 film, and in the course of the 1980s he switched from documentary to more conceptual cinema. In other artistic fields - among other things, he dealt with photography, music and sounds, various actions and not least with architecture - his most intensive creative period lasted from the 1980s to around the mid-1990s. Deutsch designed sweat huts in Peygarten , Miesenbach , Irenental and Enzersfeld . From 1983 to 1987 he designed a park in Wiltz with the group The Blue Compressor and, in 1991, worked on the conception of a temporary bathroom as part of the washing and bathing series of events in Vienna's Sargfabrik residential and cultural project . He combined his artistic work with numerous trips abroad, for example in the course of the project Die Kunst der Reise in Frankfurt am Main , London and Athens . From 1985 to 1994 he stayed with Hanna Schimek repeatedly for several months in the Figuig oasis in Morocco , where both carried out artistic research and exhibitions. His projects on the subject of travel and foreigners brought him awards such as the Austrian funding award for fine arts 1992 (for Die Kunst der Reise , together with Hanna Schimek) and the main prize of documentART 1994 (for eyewitnesses of foreigners ).

With his film Adria Urlaubsfilme 1954–1968 (Die Schule des Sehens I) , which appeared in 1990, Gustav Deutsch found a found footage film that became his central artistic form of expression. In 1995 he designed with Film speaks many languages and in 1996 with Film is more than film the trailer of the Viennale film festival , at which he was awarded the New Cinema Prize for Pocket Cinema in 1996. In the same year, Deutsch became a member of sixpackfilm , a film distributor and film marketer for alternative and experimental filmmaking from Austria. In 1999 he designed the trailer of the Filmarchiv Austria with tradition is the passing on of fire and not the adoration of ashes and received the Austrian award for film art . With film is. 1-6 (1998), film is. 7-12 (2002) and film is. a Girl & a Gun (2009) he created a series of works that is one of his most acclaimed cinematic works. With the first part, he won the Silver Spire Award of the San Francisco International Film Festival 2000 and the main prize of the Ann Arbor Film Festival 2000. He was also invited to numerous lectures, master classes and workshops at home and abroad. In 2002 he became a member of the Viennese film company After Image Productions . Gustav Deutsch and Hanna Schimek founded the Aegina Academy on the Greek island of Aegina , a forum for art and science with the aim of contributing to the democratization of the media. The first Aegina Academy in 2003 was dedicated to the topic of Light / Image / Reality , the second in 2005 to the topic of Light / Image / Illusion . In the south-west of the island, Deutsch, in collaboration with the architect Franz Berzl, had a camera obscura with a 360-degree panorama built. Deutsch also prepared his filmic and photographic work for presentation in exhibitions. For example, this is how film is. To be seen as an eight-channel DVD installation in 2002 at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and at Wien Modern in the Künstlerhaus Wien . In 2004, Deutsch and Schimek designed the exhibition Licht | Image | Reality atlas in the Lentos Art Museum Linz , in which they combined images from the museum's photo collection with their own digital photographs. The Austrian Film Museum dedicated a retrospective to him in 2009 . Deutsch became a member of the Academy of Austrian Films, founded in the same year . His documentary Shirley - Visions of Reality premiered at the 2013 Berlinale . He and Hanna Schimek were awarded the 2014 Austrian Film Prize for his production design .

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overview

Found footage film developed into the central medium in Gustav Deutsch's artistic work, placing himself in the tradition of Bruce Conner and Ken Jacobs . His achievement consists on the one hand in finding suitable material, which he and Hanna Schimek are looking for in extensive research in primarily Austrian and German film archives, on the other hand in the art of montage . By deconstructing the medium of film, he deals with its phenomenology . German started work on his film is. Series, one of his major works, around the year 1995 on the centenary of the cinematograph -Vorführungen the Lumiere brothers . The title film is. is an allusion to a question from the film theorist André Bazin from the 1950s: "Qu'est-ce que le cinéma?" ("What is film?") German therefore answers a famous question from the history of film theory with the medium of film itself He obtains the material for his found footage films from different genres and eras. When film is. 1–6 were mainly science , educational and industrial films . Deutsch thus refers to the scientific laboratory as the first birthplace of the cinema. When film is. 7–12 focused on silent films from before 1920, when cinema was important as a spectacle . Deutsch refers to the fair as the second birthplace of cinema. When film is. a Girl & a Gun the focus expanded to the first 45 years of film history. In addition to the laboratory and the fair, Deutsch provides a thematic opening of the cinema towards sexuality and violence. In the entirety of Gustavs Deutsch's work, the regaining of a social impact of art plays an important role. For example, he included mentally handicapped people in the design of the Jardin de Wiltz , a public park in Wiltz, Luxembourg .

Filmography

  • 1977: Youth Center / Per Albin Hansson Settlement East
  • 1981: Fulkur
  • 1981: rituals
  • 1982: Asuma
  • 1982: love my cow
  • 1982: no answer
  • 1982: Parasol
  • 1982: portrait sketches
  • 1982: Weinland / Himmelsfrieden
  • 1983: The ceremony of the whirling dance
  • 1983: As time goes by Maria / 83
  • 1984: As time goes by Maria / 84
  • 1984: Exercises aux baguette
  • 1984: H. dances at home
  • 1984: Listomist
  • 1984: She
  • 1984: Wossea Mtotom
  • 1986: 3 min from eternity / fire
  • 1986: 3 min from Eternity / Sea
  • 1986: The bruxelles trip
  • 1986: H. dances at HK 1
  • 1986: H. dances in the air bath 2
  • 1986: Leo Africanus le voyageur
  • 1986: Trepini da Treporti
  • 1988: 100 stones / 100 steps
  • 1988: 360 ° v. l. No. daily 1.1. - January 31, 1988
  • 1988: 3 min from eternity / night thunderstorm
  • 1988: The Blue Compressor & The Gift of the Century
  • 1988: The Lady / The Dromedary / The Arab
  • 1988: H. dances in the desert
  • 1988: Non, je ne regrette rien (The sky over Paris)
  • 1988: Prince Albert drives by
  • 1988: Waltz No. 18
  • 1989: The Blue Room - 48h
  • 1989: camel leader
  • 1989: Kristallnacht / Maingas
  • 1989: Short restless sleep
  • 1989: Rock Tiger
  • 1989: Ways of the desert I / The way to Jebel Grouz
  • 1990: 100 steps daily 1.1. - January 31, 1990
  • 1990: Adria vacation films 1954-68 (The School of Seeing I)
  • 1990: Window to Mecca 1 / Figuig
  • 1990: Sat, June 29th / Arctic Circle
  • 1990: World / Time 25812 min
  • 1991 Window to Mecca 2
  • 1991: Feininger in Moscow
  • 1991: H. eats animals 1 / chicks
  • 1991: H. eats animals 2 / penguin
  • 1992: International broadcast deadline
  • 1992 International Observations 1 - Paris / Monsieur Delouit
  • 1992: Minute diary October 15, 1992
  • 1993: Eyewitnesses to the Stranger
  • 1993: Greifzug
  • 1993: H. eats animals 3 / rabbit
  • 1994: 55/95
  • 1994: Churning the line
  • 1994: Window jungle
  • 1994: GD Architect
  • 1994: God is in the detail - Mies van der Rohe answers Frank Lloyd Wright
  • 1994: H. eats animals 4 / pig
  • 1994: kitchen biotope
  • 1994: Dance of Life
  • 1995: Film / Speaks / Many / Languages
  • 1995: Pocket cinema
  • 1996: Adria / life
  • 1996: Film is more than film
  • 1996: Mariage blanc
  • 1996: No comment - minimundus AUSTRIA
  • 1996: Pocket Cinema - The Event
  • 1996: Taschenkino - The catalog
  • 1998: Alpenglow / 10,000 watts - left
  • 1998: Alpenglow / 10,000 watts - right
  • 1998: film is. 1-6
  • 1999: K & K & K
  • 1999: Tradition is the passing on of the fire and not the worship of the ashes
  • 2002: film is. 7-12
  • 2003: Spectrum
  • 2005: Tatort Migration 1–10
  • 2005: Welt Spiegel Kino
  • 2006: The Mozart Minute: The Mozarts
  • 2009: Herzstark, Nitsche, Rauchfuss, Schmoll & Co
  • 2009: film is. a girl & a gun
  • 2010: Private Sandnes - a kinematographic atlas
  • 2011: 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
  • 2013: Shirley - Visions of Reality
  • 2016: Notes and Sketches I, 31 pocket films 2010–2015
  • 2017: The Way We Live - Messages to the Family

literature

  • Livio Belloï: Gustav Deutsch, Visual Thinker . In: Peter Tscherkassky (Ed.): Film Unframed. A History of Austria Avant-Garde Cinema . Synema, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-901644-42-9 , p. 232-244 .
  • Wilbirg Brainin-Donnenberg, Michael Loebenstein (ed.): Gustav Deutsch (=  FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen . Volume 11 ). Synema, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-901644-30-6 .
  • Scott MacDonald: Something Old, Something New — two DVDs from Gustav Deutsch. In: Found Footage Magazine, issue # 2, 2016, ISSN  2462-2885 .

Web links

Commons : Gustav Deutsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Katrin Doerksen: Gustav Deutsch died. Obituary on kino-zeit.de, November 4, 2019. Accessed November 4, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Gustav Deutsch: Biography. In: Internet presence of Gustav Deutsch. Archived from the original on May 22, 2016 ; accessed on May 22, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b c Gustav Deutsch. In: sixpackfilm database. Retrieved May 22, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Brigitta Burger-Utzer: Biographies, Filmographies and Bibliographies . In: Peter Tscherkassky (Ed.): Film Unframed. A History of Austria Avant-Garde Cinema . Synema, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-901644-42-9 , p. 29 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Long biography. In: Internet presence of Gustav Deutsch. Archived from the original on May 22, 2016 ; accessed on May 22, 2016 .
  6. ^ Peter Tscherkassky : Ground Survey. An Initial Mapping of an Expanding Territory . In: Peter Tscherkassky (Ed.): Film Unframed. A History of Austria Avant-Garde Cinema . Synema, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-901644-42-9 , p. 29 .
  7. ↑ a b c d e Livio Belloï: Gustav Deutsch, Visual Thinker . In: Peter Tscherkassky (Ed.): Film Unframed. A History of Austria Avant-Garde Cinema . Synema, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-901644-42-9 , p. 233-234 .
  8. ↑ a b c d Gustav Deutsch retrospective February 19 to 26, 2009. Austrian Film Museum , archived from the original on May 22, 2016 ; accessed on May 22, 2016 .
  9. ↑ a b Gustav Deutsch. dok.at , accessed on May 22, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Festival archive trailer. In: Viennale . Retrieved May 22, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Tradition is the passing on of the fire and not the worship of the ashes. In: sixpackfilm database. Retrieved May 22, 2016 .
  12. ↑ a b Martha Blassnigg: Light / Image / Illusion - The Aegina Academy. A Forum for Art and Science. In: Leonardo On-Line: Art, Science and Technology. June 1, 2005, archived from the original on July 6, 2009 ; accessed on May 22, 2016 (English).
  13. ^ Gustav Deutsch and Hanna Schimek: Atlas. Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz , accessed on May 22, 2016 .
  14. ^ Members. Academy of Austrian Films , May 17, 2016, accessed on May 22, 2016 .
  15. ^ Austrian Film Prize 2014. Academy of Austrian Films , accessed on May 23, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME German, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 2nd November 2019
Place of death Vienna