Inge Rambow

Inge Rambow (* 1940 in Marienburg ( West Prussia )) is a German photographer .

Life

Rambow was born in Marienburg and grew up in the Black Forest . From 1954 to 1957 she did an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Calw . She has lived and worked in Frankfurt am Main since 1968 . Rambow is self-taught. From 1969 to 1986 she was married to the poster artist Gunter Rambow . Her series of works - large-format landscape panoramas - are present in international collections, museums and exhibitions. Inge Rambow has received numerous awards, including the 1997 travel grant from the Hessian Cultural Foundation , which took her to the former lignite opencast mines in East Germany, and in 1999 the Maria Sibylla Merian Prize from the State of Hesse for visual artists.

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In the Heinzenberg black and white cycle, created between 1974 and 1975, Inge Rambow tells of country life with ducks, pigs and sheep in the idyllic Hintertaunus . From 1979 to 1990 Rambow worked primarily as a theater photographer for the Städtische Bühnen in Frankfurt am Main. Among other things, Rambow photographed Heiner Müller's world premiere Life Gundling Friedrich von Preußen Lessing's sleep dream scream , as well as the world premiere of Einar Schleef's Mothers . Numerous program books, posters and publications were created in this context. During this time, she also traveled extensively around the world, which she captured photographically.

From 1991 onwards, larger groups of works of landscape photographs were created in the former GDR with large-format cameras in color and often in large formats. The series under the title Wüstungen , with which Inge Rambow became known, show the wasteland of huge, vegetation-free industrial wastelands near Schkopau and in the vicinity of Leipzig. This was followed by her work Lunar Baedeker Buna , which is based on the toxic landfill of the chemical factory Buna-Werke near Leuna between Halle and Merseburg. For this work, Rambow coined the overarching term 'WASTELAND'.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 1993: Desolations - Landscape in Eastern Germany , German Historical Museum , Berlin
• 1998: devastation. Photographs 1991–1993 , Museum of Modern Art , Frankfurt am Main (change of scene XII)
• 2000: No man's land, photographs from the collection . Art foyer of DZ-Bank , Frankfurt am Main
• 2001: Desolations - Landscape in Eastern Germany , Museum for Photography , Braunschweig

Fonts

• Inge Rambow: Desolation. Photographs 1991–-1993 , writings on the collection of the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, 1998 ISBN 978-3-88270-481-5 (German, English)
• Course book 59 - picture book . With photographs by Abisag Tüllmann, Giovanni Rinaldi, Inge Rambow and others. Rotbuch , Berlin 1980.

Works in museums

• Museum of Modern Art , Frankfurt am Main: Desolations. Landscape in Eastern Germany near Grünewalde, Brandenburg, 1992, color photograph (Cibachromeprint) on aluminum, framed, 103 × 119 × 3.5 cm, inv. No. 1997 / 88L, as well as nine other works.
• Moritzburg Foundation . Art Museum of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale): Wüstungen. Landscape in Eastern Germany . Color photography (Cibachromeprint) on aluminum, framed, 103 cm × 119 cm × 3.5 cm, Inv. No. MOSPh3084 (1-5). A total of five works.
• Moritzburg Foundation, Art Museum of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale): Lunar Baedeker, Buna . Installation of 19 cibachrome prints, each 30 cm × 60 cm, wooden frame.
• German Historical Museum (DHM), Berlin. Desolation. Landscape in Eastern Germany . Former open pit mine. Color photography (Cibachromeprint) in a passepartout 90 × 105.5 cm. Inv.no. Ph93 / 81-84. A total of four works,

Web links

• Inge Rambow, No Man's Land , exhibition in the Art Foyer DZ Bank 2010

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sara Pendergast and others (eds.): Contemporary Artists , (Volume 2, LZ), St. James Press, Farmington Hills, USA, 2002 ISBN 978-1-55862407-8 , p. 1362
2. ↑ Hessische Kulturstiftung website
3. ↑ Exhibition brochure DZ-Bank, Niemandsland , 2010