Hein Gravenhorst

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Hein Gravenhorst (* 1937 in Berlin ) is a German artist and photographer.

Life

Hein Gravenhorst studied photography from 1953 to 1955, graphic and industrial design from 1955 to 1957 and film technology from 1958 to 1960 in Berlin and Munich.

Since 1970 he has been a lecturer in photography at the Kiel University of Applied Sciences .

Hein Gravenhorst is a representative of concrete photography and, together with Gottfried Jäger, is one of the founders of generative photography .

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Since 1965 he has increasingly dealt with the philosophical possibilities and technical means of computers in his work and took part in the first exhibitions on computer art . In 1968 he exhibited Generative Photography in the Bielefelder Kunsthaus, which immediately gave its name to a new genre of art.

His photographic work is shaped by the technical possibilities of computers that emerged in the 1960s. The works of the photomechanical transformations and rotatory transformations series created at that time are circular arrangements of multiple-exposure elements.

His works are represented in numerous national and international museums, including the Peter C. Ruppert Collection and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Exhibitions

  • 1966 photography between science and art. Photokina , Cologne, catalog.
  • 1968 Generative photography. Kilian Breier, Pierre Cordier, Hein Gravenhorst, Gottfried Jäger. City Kunsthaus Bielefeld, catalog.
  • 1969 Nova tendencija 4. New artistic tendencies. Muzej za umjetnost i obrt, Zagreb, catalog.
  • 1970–1976 Paths to Computer Art. Traveling exhibition of the German Goethe-Instituts , including Berlin (IDZ), Zurich (ETH), Goethe-Instituts Tokyo, São Paulo, Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, Bordeaux (SIGMA 9, 1973), Marseille, Angers: London (Polytechnic of Central) etc., catalogs.
  • 2014 Concrete and Generative Photography 1960-2014 Part I: The Pioneers. Photo Edition Berlin, catalog.
  • 2015 photo and data image. Traces of Concrete Photography Museum in the Kulturspeicher Würzburg, catalog.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gunther Dietrich, Tomás Rodríguez (Ed.): Concrete Photography / Generative Photography / Part 1 / The Pioneers. Photo Edition Berlin. 2014, Berlin. P. 34
  2. ↑ Henrike Holsing, Gottfried Jäger (Ed.): Photo and data image / traces of concrete photography. Kehrer publishing house. Heidelberg, 2015. p. 199
  3. ↑ Hein Gravenhorst - Database of Digital Art (accessed on June 23, 2015)
  4. ↑ Gottfried Jäger: Concrete Photography / Concrete Photography. Kerber Publishing House. Bielefeld, 2005. p. 244
  5. ↑ MoMA - The Collection - Hein Gravenhorst (accessed June 23, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Gravenhorst, Hein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin