Ica Vilander

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Ica Vilander (born December 20, 1921 in Brüx , Czechoslovakia ; † April 22, 2013 in Hamburg ) was a German photographer .

Life

After completing a photo apprenticeship, Ica Vilander lived in Berlin from 1944. She began studying graphics and experimental photography at the Berlin School of Fine Arts with Heinz Hajek-Halke . First publications from 1959. In the youth magazine TWEN journalistically inspired studies about the cabaret artist Wolfgang Neuss (8/1962) and about Ica Vilander herself the photo essay “Meine Oma photographs Akt” (4/1967). The reason for the essay was her lifestyle, which became the model of a fun-loving and maladjusted woman. At that time she lived in close association with the hippie family of her son Helge.

Vilander last lived in Hamburg.

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Ica Vilander inspired Werner Klett to the film Die Augen der Ica Vilander (1968) and was involved in the feature film Exercises with Actors (1968) by Werner Schroeter . Her photographic works can be found as a fade-in in Herbert Vesely's film Das Bread of the Early Years (1962) based on Heinrich Böll . She designed book titles for the Rowohlt and Heyne publishers. From 1980 she withdrew completely from the public.

Originals by her are rare, much has been destroyed and can only be found as a copy in TWEN or in her books "akt apart", "La femme vue par une femme" (1967), "akt abstract" (1968), "akt adonis" (1969) and “vive le sex” (1970).

Vilander portrayed z. B. Hildegard Knef , Helene Weigel , Gregory Corso , Maurice Béjart and Sidney Poitier . She also attracted international attention with her nude photography. In 1969, the news magazine DER SPIEGEL described her as "Germany's most famous nude photographer".

Publications

  • 1967 act apart
  • 1967 la femme vue par une femme
  • 1968 nude abstract
  • 1969 act adonis
  • 1970 vive le sex

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Ica Vilander in multiple box ( Memento from November 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Vilander, Ica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Brüx , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 2013
Place of death Hamburg