Jean-Marie Albert Bottequin

Jean-Marie Bottequin

Jean-Marie Bottequin (born April 29, 1941 in Ghent ) is a Belgian photographer , photojournalist , photo artist and mime artist .

Life

Jean-Marie Bottequin is the son of Armand Bottequin (professor of philosophy, drama and Romance languages; from Wallonia, Belgium) and his Flemish wife, the nurse and social worker Odile Maenhout-Bottequin. The sons Jacques and Pierre come from his father's first marriage; from the marriage with Odile Maenhout Jean-Marie Albert, Guy Antoine and Monique emerged.

In 1957 Bottequin graduated from high school; then studied classical theater at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes; 1959 studied Romance languages , pedagogy and art education at the University of Ghent . In 1960 he began to study painting and art education with the respected Belgian artist Octave Landuyt at the normal school for plastic arts in Ghent. He has been a freelance photographer, photo artist and autodidact since 1962 .

In 1968 Bottequin produced his first social reports for the illustrated magazine Quick , after which he was in- house photographer and reporter at IOS, Investors Overseas Services, Geneva - Munich. Since 1970 Bottequin has continued to work independently as a photo journalist . In addition to his freelance work, Bottequin also worked from 1972 to 1981 as a dramaturgeist and in-house photographer at the Bavarian State Theater . From 1975 to 1985 he was a lecturer at the graphic design institute U5 (now the academy in Einsteinstrasse).

Private

Bottequin's first marriage was to Monique Kesteman. Their children Caroline and Michel descended from this marriage. In his second marriage, he was married to the Belgian-US-American actress , voice actress , translator and author Marietta Meade . From this marriage their children Ezra Avraham, Avital Sarah and Ayalah Rahel come.

Jean-Marie Bottequin speaks French , Dutch , German and English .

Bottequin has lived and worked in Munich since 1968.

Areas of Effect

• Photo design, advertising, portrait, industrial photography
• Theater and stage photography: Bavarian State Theater , Bavarian State Opera , Bayreuth Festival , Württemberg State Theater , United Stages, Vienna , Stuttgart Ballet , Hamburg Opera , Burgtheater Vienna , and many more.
• Ballet photographer: Stuttgart Ballet ; Hamburg State Ballet ; Royal Ballet of Flanders .
• Car photography: In 1984 Bottequin produced an extensive series of photos for BMW AG.
• Photojournalist for leading German magazines and magazines (e.g. Stern , Der Spiegel , Lui , Playboy Germany , Form Magazin , Phototechnik und Design , Le Photographe , M Magazin , BMW Magazin , Freund , Bunte ), as well as European trade press.
• Social reporting
• Still photography
• Travel photography (including Turkey , France , USA , Germany , Italy , Spain , Bulgaria , Algeria , Canary Islands , India ); for Stern , Quick , Ambiente, Geo , Spiegel , Lui , Country and many other magazines
• Industrial and product photography
• Architectural photography
• Painting reprography and sculpture photography
• Art Director (for brochures and illustrations), u. a. Classic Cars / BMW AG; Kieser printing company, Augsburg; Residenztheater Munich; Press Office and Culture Department City of Munich ; European Patent Office, BMW AG and various brochures in the field of culture.

International cooperation

Bottequin worked with and for Andy Warhol , Harold Pinter , Friedensreich Hundertwasser , Kurt Meisel , Luc Bondy , Ingmar Bergman , Ernst Fuchs , Giora Feidman , Karlheinz Böhm , George Tabori , Roman Polański , André Heller , Wolfgang Wagner , Marcia Haydée , among others , Volker Prechtel , Greta Scacchi , Kristina Söderbaum , John Neumeier , Théâtre du Soleil , Peking Opera , Jean-Pierre Ponnelle , Marianne Sägebrecht , Katja Riemann , Sankai Juku , Butoh Theater , Roncalli Circus , Jean-Charles de Castelbajac , Walter Felsenstein , Bernard Cornfeld , Inter Nationes , Jürgen Flimm , David Esrig , Patrice Chéreau , Marcel Broodthaers , Jiří Kylián , Krzysztof Penderecki , architect Hermann Grub , Aribert Reimann , Harry Kupfer , Uwe Bremer , Eduardo Paolozzi , Max Bill , Rudolf Heinrich , Reinhard Heinrich .

Further collaboration with Jacques Lowe (Kennedy's in-house photographer), Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Irm Hermann , Pina Bausch , Löwendompteur René Strickler, Hannelore Schroth , Ellen Raab, Rita Russek , Kathrin Ackermann , Susan Avilès, Peter Ludwig, Gaby Dohm , Katerina Jacob , Heli Finkenzeller , Robert Atzorn , Maria Schell , Katharina Böhm , Walter Schmidinger , Peter Fricke , Klaus Löwitsch , Nikolaus Paryla , Klausjürgen Wussow , Ulrich Tukur , Marius Müller-Westernhagen , Christian Kohlund , Peter Weck , Valery and Galina Panov, Beatrix Cordua, Konstanze Vernon , Nina Hagen , Nizza Thobi , Carlos Païta , Daffid Llywelyn, yacht designer and architect Paolo Cagliari, Pia Douwes , Oleg Popow and Charlie Rivel and other artists, actors, dancers and mimes.

BMW is one of Bottequin's international customers .

Jean-Marie Bottequin photographs BMW

Awards

• 1967: Belgian Critics' Prize for his black and white photographs
• 1981: Special Prize of the Triennial of Photography in Freiburg im Üechtland , Switzerland
• 1988: Award of Excellence in Chicago , USA

Publications

• "Theater, Zirkus, Varieté", vwi Verlag, Herrsching 1980
• "The love after the hunt ...", ETC Munich publishing house 1979
• "Der Ring", Bayreuth 1976-1980, Edit. Robert Laffont, Paris 1980
• "King Ludwig II", Ullstein Langen Müller Verlag, Munich 1985 (with Herbert Rosendorfer )
• "Der Ring", Bayreuth 1988–1992, Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1992
• "The 7 Years of the 7th - The Development of the Big BMW", Steinhaus Verlag, 1986
• "Design Process Auto", New Collection Munich, 1987
• "L'art, le Style et l'Auto", Musée de l'art moderne de la ville de Paris, 1985
• "Shylock", George Tabori, Andrea Welker, 1980
• "The Freemasons", Marcel Valmy, Callwey Verlag, 1990
• "European Patent Office Art Collection", 1998
• "Ingmar Bergman Archive", Taschen Verlag 2008

Teaching

Since 1975 Bottequin has been teaching at home and abroad (USA, Australia , Japan , Korea , Belgium, France , Italy , Germany , Austria ). He is also a guest lecturer for photographic design at the Ghent Art Academy, the Munich Adult Education Center and the Institute for Graphic Design in Munich .

Advisory activity

Bottequin was u. a. active as a consultant for the Council of Europe and for UNESCO .

Solo exhibitions

• Before 1967 numerous exhibitions in Belgium in museums and galleries
• 1967 Belgian House, Cologne
• 1967 Palais des Beaux Arts, Charleroi, Belgium
• 1968 Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
• 1978 Manfred Arndt Gallery, Munich
• 1979 Foyer of the Württemberg State Opera
• 1980 Dagmar von Gottberg Gallery , Hamburg
• 1981 Authors Gallery I, Munich
• 1981 Photo Museum in the Munich City Museum
• 1981 foyer of the Bavarian State Theater
• 1981 Hanseatic Kontaktfilm, Hamburg
• 1981 Lavuun Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
• 1982 Dingolfing town hall
• 1983 Siegfried De Buck Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
• 1983 Weihersgut Gallery, Mozart's birthplace, Salzburg
• 1984 Brötzinger Art Gallery, Pforzheim
• 1984 Altbau Gallery, Irsee / Allgäu
• 1984 Authors Gallery I, Munich
• 1985 Photomania Gallery, Nuremberg
• 1986 Authors Gallery I, Munich
• 1986 Gallery in Metropol, Vienna, Austria
• 1986 Circuit van Vlaanderen, traveling exhibition in 20 cities in Flanders, Belgium
• 1986 Alabama Halle, Munich
• 1987 Gallery in Metropol, Vienna
• 1987 Gallery "America is bigger", Düsseldorf
• 1988 Belgian house, staircase gallery, Cologne
• 1989 Authors Gallery I, Munich
• 1992 Authors Gallery I, Munich ("Mutation")
• 1993 Nautilus Foundation, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
• 1993 European Patent Office, Munich: Retrospective and new works
• 1994 Pro Familia, Munich
• 1995 Gallery Kulturgut, Fürth
• 1997 Authors Gallery I, Munich ("Mummu"), "Photoargentographien", silver collotype prints in small editions
• 1997 Lucas de Bruycker Gallery, Merendree / Gent, Belgium
• 1997 Galerie Pim de Rudder, Assenede, Belgium
• 1998 City of Pézénas, France, Maison des Métiers d'Arts
• 1999 City of Munich, Goethe Gallery
• 2000 Pegasus Logenheim, Fürth
• 2000 Fürth City Museum, Burgfarrnbach Castle
• 2001 Munich subway gallery
• 2001 Galerie Pich, Munich
• 2001 Authors Gallery I, Munich
• 2001 Goethe Institute, Munich
• 2002 Reygers Gallery, Munich
• 2005 Art Association Murnau
• 2005 Authors Gallery I, Munich
• 2005 Hotel Kaiserin Elisabeth, Feldafing
• 2006 Authors Gallery I, Munich, turquoise blue, "Zahira"
• 2008 Bradipo Munich, Preising-Palais

Group exhibitions

• 1967 Arts Center University of Sussex, England
• 1967 Arts Center University of London, England
• 1967 Arts Center University of Edinburgh, Scotland
• 1970 Margarethe de Boevé Gallery, Assenede, Belgium
• 1972 Margarethe de Boevé Gallery, Assenede, Belgium
• 1977 Lavuun Gallery, Belgium
• 1978 Lavuun Gallery, Belgium
• 1979 Authors Gallery I, Munich
• 1980 Authors Gallery I, Munich
• 1981 Triennale de la photographie, Friborg, Switzerland
• 1981 Authors Gallery I, Munich
• 1981 Gallery in the town hall, Munich
• 1981 Goethe Institute, London, England
• 1982 Authors Gallery I, Munich
• 1982 Rutzmoser Gallery, Munich
• 1983 BMW Gallery, Munich
• 1983 Authors Gallery I, Munich
• 1984 BMW Gallery, Munich
• 1984 BMW Darmstadt, Hamburg, Berlin
• 1984 College of Europe, "Visions sans frontières", Bruges, Belgium
• 1985 Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, France
• 1985 City Museum, Villa Vauban, Luxembourg
• 1986 BMW Toronto, Canada
• 1986 The New Collection, Munich
• 1987 Documenta Life, Kassel, BMW Pavilion
• 1991 ART Hamburg '91, international art fair
• 1992 Authors Gallery I, Munich
• 1993 Authors Gallery I, Munich ("For example Eros")
• 1993 Edition Galerie Wegman, Grafing b. Munich
• 1994 Gallery and Museum / Fund of Free Russian Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, Russia
• 1995 Authors Gallery I, Munich
• 1996 Authors Gallery I, Munich ("For example art")
• 1996 Galerie Pim de Rudder, Assenede, Belgium
• 1997 Authors Gallery I, Munich
• 1997 Gasteig Munich, "Visiones"
• 1998 Large art exhibition, House of Art, Munich, "Secession"
• 1998 Authors Gallery I, Munich
• 1999 Authors Gallery I, Munich
• 1999 DesignMesse, Munich
• 2000 Seidl-Villa, Munich
• 2000 Fürth City Museum, Burgfarrnbach Castle
• 2001 Authors Gallery I, Munich
• 2001 Institut Français de Munich
• 2001 Burghausen Theater Academy
• 2001 Galerie Pich, Munich
• 2002 Rothenburg ob der Tauber crime museum
• 2002 Authors Gallery I, Munich
• 2003 Braunschweig State Museum
• 2004 Galerie Kunstkabinett Hespert, Reichshof near Cologne
• 2004 Menden Town Hall, Pegasus Group
• 2005 Authors Gallery I, Munich
• 2007 St. Alban les Eaux, France, 3ème édition de la biennale de la photo "images pour les autres"
• 2008 Authors Gallery I, Munich
• 2009 Round Table, Munich
• 2010 Hamit Cordan Gallery, Wolfrathshausen, "World of Women - Women of the World"

Works in collections

• Musée des Beaux Arts, Charlerloi, Belgium;
• Collection of the Belgian State;
• EBES, Belgian Electricity Company;
• National Theater Ghent, Belgium;
• Munich Photo Museum;
• European Patent Office, Munich;
• New Collection, Munich;
• Authors Gallery I, Munich;
• The Nautilus Foundation, Tallahassee, Florida, USA;
• BMW Museum, Munich;
• Theater Museum Munich, entire theater archive from 1972 to 1982;
• Freemason Museum Bayreuth;
• Maison des Métiers d'Art de la Ville de Pézénas, France;
• Private collector in USA, France, Austria, Switzerland, India, Korea, Belgium and Germany.

Photo seminars / lectures

As the founder of IPS ( International Photographic Seminars : Photography seminars for professional and amateur photographers), Bottequin has been running fine art photo seminars since 1980 and giving public lectures on visual perception and active vision.

Filmography (documentaries)

• "Cobra Group with Children", film about experimental pedagogy, commissioned by UNESCO and the University of Ghent , 1960, 30 min, 16 mm
• "Sanne Sannes - Photographer in Holland", Belgian (Flemish) Television (BRT), Ghent, 1967, 20 min, 16 mm
• "Photography workshop - a self-staging", commissioned by Fotomagazin , Munich, 1987, 17 min, Beta SP
• "Donni Buffalo Dog & Ursula Hanes - two female sculptors in Tuscany", commissioned by the Musée du Nouveau Monde, La Rochelle, France, 1988, 30 min, Beta SP
• "Metamorphoses", car design in the 20th century, on behalf of BMW AG, Munich, 1993, 9 min, 16 mm, presentation at the international design exhibition in Paris
• "Art in Brazil", on behalf of the European Patent Office (EPA), Munich 1995, 25 min, Beta SP
• "Cristine Barroso - a portrait", on behalf of the European Patent Office (EPA), Munich, 1996, 29 min, Beta SP

Mimography

Bottequin is a student of the French mimes Étienne Decroux and Marcel Marceau .

Jean-Marie Bottequin

Web links

• Website
• Jean-Marie Albert Bottequin on docent platform.de