Jo Berghammer
Jo Berghammer (born November 16, 1953 in Pößneck ; actually Frank Joachim Berghammer ) is a German photo artist and photo journalist. Jo Berghammer became known for his photographic images of history, which in collage form depict an event or personality in contemporary history. Jo Berghammer lives and works in Berlin-Charlottenburg .
Life
From 1975 to 1979, Jo Berghammer studied economics at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , specializing in sales and foreign trade, from which he graduated as a qualified industrial engineer. During his studies he became an active member of the Jena photography club UNIFOK. Influenced by his studies and the political and economic contradictions of those years, he found his first photojournalistic topic in the photo of the GDR as a society of chronic shortage . The step of open creative contradiction by civil rights activists from Jena like Roland Jahnhe did not want to leave, however, because he believed in a quiet reformability. He also made this known in discussions with Roland Jahn. After moving from Jena to East Berlin in 1979, he worked for VEB Elektroprojekt und Anlagenbau Berlin (ELPRO). He also worked as a waiter and trainer for a gymnastics club in order to set up his own photo laboratory. From 1980 onwards he focused more and more on the increasingly open repressive everyday life of the GDR. In 1981 he founded the OSTBOX photo and graphics studio. From then on, he acquired his skills in dealing with printing techniques in the Neues Deutschland print shop until 1986 and during a two-year training course as a typesetter in a book printing shop in Berlin-Mitte. During this time, his photo campaigns, which now more openly contradict the GDR regulations, such as the opposition matches, take place. These were matchboxes, inspired by John Heartfield , with photomontages pasted on, which were directed against political arbitrariness and the dismantling of democracy. In 1986, Jo Berghammer managed to move to West Berlin with the help of his older brother . In 1988 he developed so-called MEMOCARDs. These were event miniatures on postcards. From 1987 to 1998 he worked as a producer, ad designer and digital photo editor at Axel Springer Verlag . In 2000, Jo Berghammer founded the studio for event and portrait design Facegarden and has been working as a freelance photo artist ever since.
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Jo Berghammer dedicates his work to the epochal development of aesthetics, ethics and technology through events, groups and individuals. For reasons of educational clarity, too, he prefers large pictorial formats for these works, which, depending on the viewing distance, contain several viewing levels (complexity). A typical feature of his historical images (since 2007) is a timeline that assigns outstanding events. A second is the objectification of the connection between past and present. In his “Egypt Collage” for the European Press Ball 2005 in Berlin, he “linked” “Cairo with Berlin”. On this work, the viewer is presented with a “mosaic of small, completely different images” and emphasizes “the worlds of ancient Egypt” and its art and science bloom. As a further recognition effect, Berghammer's historical pictures always create “hundreds of different motifs that make up the total work of art”. For his design technique he created the term "Mosapaint".
Projects
- 2000 50 years of the Technical Relief Organization (THW)
- 2001 100 years of the Nobel Prize
- 2002 Poster "Buddy Bear Berlin Show" (bestseller Berliner Postermarkt)
- 2002 Bundestag / THW Reichstag poster
- 2003 40 years of television ballet (mdr)
- 2003 Portrait of Klaus Wowereit (Governing Mayor of Berlin)
- 2004 Portrait of the President of the Berlin Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK) Werner Gegenbauer
- 2004 Portrait of Norbert Beleke (publisher, German "who is who")
- 2004 100 years of the Botanical Garden
- 2004 " Alter Fritz - Sanssouci "
- 2005 Exhibition at the Egyptian Embassy in Berlin
- 2005 Rolling Stones project (with Sebastian Krüger)
- 2006 Portrait of Knut Schumann (Mr. Vorwärts)
- 2006 Exhibition in the Porsche Center Berlin
- 2007 Development of "Panorama Portrait" (Mosapaint with integrated time horizon, world premiere)
- 2007 Portrait of Heidi Hetzer (rally driver, Opel Hetzer Berlin)
- 2008 group exhibition "The great seven" (WhiteSquare Gallery Las Vegas)
- 2008 License agreement with Porsche AG "AirVolution"
- 2009 Design exhibition stand of the KPM general agency for Russia "Luxery Goods" in Moscow (Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin)
- 2009–2010 exhibition "Krügerised Stones" "Krügerised Keith" (E&D multimedia Design & Furnishing / stilwerk Berlin)
- 2010 Exhibition "AirVolution" (Siematic Berlin)
- 2011 Exhibition "AirVolution" (Lundt Automobile / Meilenwerk Berlin)
- 2011 cooperation with "first glas" (stilwerk Berlin)
- 2011 Cover photo and current photographs of the book production of the THW , “From the royal casernement to the Federal Agency for Technical Relief”. Wolfgang Schächen, Norbert Szymanski. ISBN 978-3-87999-054-2
- 2006–2015 Schindler Germany / event and portrait photography
- 2009 studio portraits
- 2011–2018 Photo report on city centers in the new federal states / "CityProjekt"
- 2011 Berlin motifs "Bicyle Tours"
- 2011–2018 exhibition / sale of changing works in Baake galleries in Potsdam
- 2011-2017 photo reports and work publications / lifestyle magazine "Friedmanns Revue"
- 2012 FUN-Taler (acrylic object in mosaic paint technique)
- 2013 ITB press conference in Humboldtbox
- 2013 Interior designer DOMIZIL Potsdam (Friedmanns-Revue)
- 2013 portrait of ballet trainer Oleg Shiranov
- 2013 portraits (including Rita Gueli, finalist "The Voice Kids" Sat.1)
- 2014–2016 product photography "Legend of Kremlin-Vodka"
- 2015 Portraits of the management of Schindler Germany
- 2015 City trips Brussels Amsterdam Ghent / "CityProjekt"
- 2015 Exhibition "MOSAPAINT-Highend" Triangle Hifi Studio Berlin
- 2015 wedding photography Fritz & Assia Langgärtner
- 2016 portrait of star dancer Vladimir Malakov
- 2016 photo session Denis Rodkin (ballet dancer at the Bolshoi Theater Moscow)
- 2016 revue report "The One" in the Friedrichstadtpalast Berlin
- 2016 Ballet Report: "Malakhov & Friends" Admiralspalast Berlin
- 2017 Press conference opening of the Barbarini Museum Potsdam with Hasso-Plattner
- 2017 Light design: Seven motifs at the Potsdam Museum during the “Potsdam Light Spectacle”.
Literary figure
In his novel The End of a Cowardice, the writer, psychologist and civil rights activist Jürgen Fuchs described exactly one psychology lesson at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , during which 19-year-old Jo Berghammer gave lecturer Dr. Bock as a quasi- Woyzeck assists. To protect his protagonist from possible adversity, Fuchs shortened the name Berghammer to Hammer. During his high school graduation, after years at the children's and youth sports school KJS Werner John in Bad Blankenburg , Jo Berghammer got into considerable self-doubt about his future life in a society that made successful career progress dependent on lack of criticism towards the state. As a result, he was kept under psychiatric control for a few months. The psychology lesson described ends with the indignation of the fellow students and the thought: "Quit your studies ... get the hammer out". At the time the novel was published, Jürgen Fuchs did not know that Jo Berghammer had long been in West Berlin. Likewise, Jo Berghammer had no inkling of his second life as a not inconsiderable literary figure.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jörg Wachsmuth: Jo Berghammer's Egypt Collage. ALMANACH European Press Ball Berlin 2005, DJV Sozialfonds GmbH, pp. 38–39.
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release, November 6, 2002.
- ↑ Birthday: Wowereit received a portrait from portraits. (No longer available online.) In: Rathaus Aktuell. berlin.de, October 1, 2003, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved July 19, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ "Rote Auslese" and lawn mowers. In: The world . October 2, 2003, accessed July 19, 2015 .
- ↑ Jürgen Fuchs: The end of a cowardice. Reinbek 1st edition March 1988, pp. 185-189.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berghammer, Jo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Berghammer, Frank Joachim (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photo artist and photo journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poessneck |