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Hildegard Ochse (born December 7, 1935 in Bad Salzuflen , † June 28, 1997 in Berlin ) was a German photographer .

Life

Hildegard Elisabeth Maria Helene Ochse b. Römer, was born in Bad Salzuflen in 1935 as the daughter of Maria Römer-Krusemeyer and the teacher Peter Arthur Römer. After the Second World War, she traveled to Rochester in the US state of New York in the USA in 1952 with the help of a scholarship on the SS United States . In 1953 she returned to Germany on the SS Andrea Doria in June .

In the spring of 1955, she passed the Abitur at the modern-language girls' grammar school in Bad Salzuflen to study Romance languages, French, Italian, German and art history at the University of Freiburg . In March 1958 she married the Romanist Horst Ochse (1927-2014).

In May 1973 the family moved to Berlin. From 1975 she began to work as a self-taught photographer, later also under the guidance of the photographer Michael Schmidt and Ulrich Görlich at the " Workshop for Photography " in Berlin-Kreuzberg (Friedrichstrasse 230 / corner Kochstrasse). There she took part in lessons from Ulrich Görlich and, until 1981, in various workshops with American photographers such as Lewis Baltz , John Gossage, Ralph Gibson and Larry Fink, as well as the German photographer André Gelpke . In 1978 Hildegard Ochse began teaching as a photographer at the Landesbildstelle and at the Berlin University of Education . From 1981 she worked as a freelance photographer in Berlin.

After establishing herself as a freelance photographer, Hildegard Ochse photographed in 1983 on the S-Bahn lines Lichterfelde / Lichtenrade - Frohnau / Heiligensee and Wannsee - Friedrichstrasse with 160 motifs in the end. In the version reduced to 72 motifs by her in 1987, she was concerned with the different degrees of perception of optical impressions. Like syncopation, accents are set and repetitions are made. "The contradictions in the way of seeing correspond", as Hildegard Ochse felt, "to the contradictions of this city and the feeling of 'hate - love' that I feel for it."

This was followed by their work on the subject of zoological gardens , for which they were inspired by an essay by John Berger and other observations of the zoo by Theodor W. Adorno . Her zoo pictures, photographed in Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Munich, Milan and other European locations, address the unnatural imprisonment of exotic animals. Based on the two authors, she saw it as a form of modern colonial power. Contrary to their belief in freedom, any form of isolation or imprisonment inevitably led to numbness and lethargy - ultimately indifference.

As a specifically Berlin work, a series made possible by the artist funding of the State Office for Central Social Tasks followed in 1987, in which she portrayed the city officials. According to the 1985 statistical yearbook, West Berlin, which had a population of two million at the time, had around 65,000 civil servants and around 86,000 employees. Hildegard Ochse investigated the question of what the German civil servant looks like and how he sees himself, using the portraits of politicians by Erich Salomon and the portraits of August Sander , as well as the recently published work pictures of Lee Friedlander as models. How it was with the proverbial reliability, order and cleanliness of the German civil servant remained open, but not the zeitgeist inscribed in her photographs.

How the human being was literally in the foreground here is what she was concerned with in the series she subsequently photographed in the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur (KPM) in Wegelystraße, above all the aspect of handicrafts, which is fundamental for porcelain production. She therefore focused on the individual faces of women and men in connection with the manual skills they practiced. Although Hildegard Ochse did not intend it that way, this series joins the canon of photographic works that have captured dying craft professions.

Grave of Hildegard Ochse in the Heerstraße cemetery in Berlin-Westend , here the original grave site (2012)

In 1995 she was diagnosed with leukemia. Nonetheless, she began studying Judaic Studies and Hebrew .

Hildegard Ochse died on June 28, 1997 at the age of 61 in Berlin. The burial took place in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in today's Berlin-Westend district . In spring 2019 she was reburied in the same cemetery (new grave location: II-W8-31).

Hildegard Ochse's artistic estate is looked after by her son Benjamin Ochse.

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Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions, including in Berlin, Milan, New Plymouth and Vienna. Parts of her pictures are now in the collection of the Berlinische Galerie of the Landesmuseum, in the art collection of the German Bundestag , in the University of Parma in the Centrum studip. Fotografia as well as in private collections.

  • 1979: Nature in the city, urban vegetation
  • 1979: Venice
  • 1980: No Future - Café Mitropa
  • 1980: Landscapes - Denmark on the beach
  • 1980–83: Street photography, winter in Berlin
  • 1981: Big city churches
  • 1982: Bosa
  • 1983: Topographical sequences of the city and its changing landscapes
  • 1983: host country Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1983: Haus Marck - 7 days - 77 photographs
  • 1983: Bomarzo
  • 1984: the village
  • 1985: Images of man the photographic portrait
  • 1986–87: The oath on the constitution
  • 1987: KPM - Royal Prussian Porcelain Manufactory
  • 1989: Jerusalem - The Eternal City
  • 1989: In Memoriam!
  • 1989–90: The Wall - Metamorphosis
  • 1990: Hike through Mark-Brandenburg
  • 1990: The children from Berlin-Marzahn
  • 1991: Normandy

Exhibitions

Exhibition Hildegard Ochse in the house at Kleistpark
  • 1978: Galerie Franz Mehring, group exhibition, Berlin
  • 1979: Galerie Mutter Fourage , Berlin
  • 1983: Galerie Fioretta d'arte, reflections , group exhibition, Padua, Italy
  • 1983: Galerie II Diaframma-Canon, Aspetti di Berlino, group exhibition, Milan, Italy
  • 1984: HdK Berlin , pictures at an exhibition , solo exhibition, foyer of the theater hall, Berlin
  • 1985: Galleria fotografica comunale, Centro Culturale Pubblico Polivalente, Ronchi dei Legionari near Trieste, Italy
  • 1987: Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin city photography , S-Bahn sequences, festival gallery 750 years of Berlin, group exhibition, Berlin
  • 1991: Gallery "Inselstraße 13", Metamorphose , group exhibition, Berlin
  • 1992: Heimatmuseum Wedding, Frauenzimmer - Frauenzimmer , group exhibition, Berlin
  • 2004: Taranaki Art Gallery, Metamorphose , solo exhibition, New Plymouth, New Zealand
  • 2009: House of Brandenburg-Prussian History, documentation on Brandenburg , Potsdam
  • 2009: European Commission representation in Germany, fall of the Wall in 1989 , group exhibition, Berlin
  • 2009: Gallery in the Kulturhaus Karlshorst , 20 years of the fall of the wall , group exhibition, Berlin
  • 2010: Cafe Club International, Ulysses in the age of facebook and twitter , group exhibition, Vienna
  • 2012: Haus am Kleistpark , Hildegard Ochse (1935–1997) - The Legacy of an Author's Photographer , solo exhibition, Berlin
  • 2013: Landtag Brandenburg , turning point 1989–1991 , solo exhibition, Potsdam
  • 2014: 18m salon, BÜROZEIT including views of an author photographer , solo exhibition, Berlin
  • 2015: Kommunale Galerie Berlin, Between Your Own Perspective and Authentic Reality , Solo Exhibition, Berlin
  • 2016: C / O Berlin , Kreuzberg - America: Workshop for Photography 1976–1986 , group exhibition, Berlin
  • 2017: Photoplatz c / o Rissmann, First and Last | Beginning and End , solo exhibition, Berlin
  • 2018: Galerie Schwalenberg / Lippisches Landesmuseum, Strong Women in Art - Women Artists on the Move to Modernism , group exhibition, Schwalenberg
  • 2018: Gallery of the Heidelberg Forum for Art, encounter with reality, group exhibition, Heidelberg
  • 2018: Reinbeckhallen, Geld - Wahn - Sinn , group exhibition, Berlin
  • 2019: Wall Memorial of the German Bundestag, What works - what remains, group exhibition, Berlin
  • 2020: Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus : 1990. Photographic positions from a year, over a year, group exhibition, Cottbus
  • 2020: Gallery in the Tempelhof Museum: Wild & Ochse - Zoological Views, group exhibition, Berlin

literature

  • Big City Churches: Pictures of the Present . Herderverlag, Freiburg, 1982
  • Women's rooms - women's rooms . District Office Berlin-Wedding, 1982
  • Ulrich Eckhard (Ed.): 750 Years of Berlin City of the Present , Ulstein, Berlin, 1987; ISBN 3-548-34380-5
  • Barbara Köppe, photographs 1988–1990, Hildegard Ochse, Metamorphosen 1990 . Gallery "Inselstrasse 13", Berlin, 1991
  • Lothar Schirmer (Ed.): Martin Rupprecht, stage designs and costumes , Henschel, Berlin, 2005, pp. 119–121; ISBN 3-89487-524-0
  • Wolfgang Farkas, Stefanie Seidl, Heiko Zwirner (Hrsg.): Nightlife Berlin. 1974 to today , Metrolit, Berlin, 2013, p. 34; ISBN 978-3-8493-0304-4
  • Kathleen Urbanic (Author): Through Hildegard's Lens, Newsletter from the Sisters of Saint Joseph, Rochester, 2015, p. 7.
  • Florian Ebner, Felix Hoffmann, Inka Schube, (Eds.), Thomas Weski, Virginia Heckert (Author): Workshop for Photography 1976–1986: C / O Berlin, Museum Folkwang Essen, Sprengel Museum Hannover , exhibition catalog, Walther König Verlag, 2016 ; ISBN 3-96098-042-6 , pp. 69-73; 233
  • Jürgen Scheffler, Stefan Wiesekopsieker (ed.) Benjamin Ochse (author): Strong women in art: women artists on the move to modernity , exhibition catalog, publishing house for regional history, 2018; ISBN 373951079X , pp. 115-121

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hildegard Ox. Biography . Retrieved November 27, 2019.
  2. ^ Artist index of the Berlinische Galerie. Berlinische Galerie, accessed December 30, 2016 .
  3. ↑ German Bundestag - Hildegard Ochse. Retrieved February 13, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Hildegard Ochse (1935–1997). The legacy of an author photographer. Haus am Kleistpark, accessed December 30, 2016 .
  5. ↑ TURNING TIME 1989 - 1991. Brandenburg State Parliament, accessed on December 30, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Between your own perspective and authentic reality The life's work of the Berlin author photographer Hildegard Ochse. Kommunale Galerie Berlin, accessed December 30, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Kreuzberg - America. July 18, 2016, accessed September 14, 2016 .
  8. ↑ PHOTOPLATZ | Little Bogota Berlin (EX Hotel Bogota). Retrieved on February 19, 2018 (German).
  9. ^ Exhibitions Städtische Galerie and Robert Koepke Haus Schwalenberg · Landesverband Lippe . In: Landesverband Lippe . ( landesverband-lippe.de [accessed on February 19, 2018]).
  10. ↑ 2018 annual program of the Heidelberg FORUM for KUNST. Retrieved February 19, 2018 .
  11. ↑ About | GELD - WAHN - SINN: The Haupt Collection in the Reinbeckhallen Berlin | Haupt Collection "Thirty Silver Coins - Art and Money". Retrieved June 8, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Hildegard Ochse (1935-1997). Retrieved November 13, 2019 .
  13. ↑ 1990. Photographic positions from a year, over a year. Retrieved December 13, 2019 (German).
  14. ↑ Entry at the DNB
personal data
SURNAME Ox, Hildegard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Salzuflen
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1997
Place of death Berlin