Karin Székessy

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Karin Székessy (born April 17, 1938 in Essen ) is a German photographer .

life and work

Between 1957 and 1959 Karin Székessy studied photography at the Institute for Photojournalism in Munich.

In 1959 she began with doll photos, to which from 1963 portraits, artist portraits, still lifes, landscapes and nudes were added. In particular, the nude photographs, the focus of Karin Székessy's work, made her internationally known.

From 1960 to 1966, Székessy worked as a reportage photographer for Kristall magazine and was a member of the contemporaries group between 1962 and 1967 . From 1967 to 1969 she held a teaching position in the field of fashion photography at the Werkkunstschule Hamburg .

Karin Székessy was married to the artist Paul Wunderlich from 1971 until his death in 2010 . Numerous works were created in close correspondence over the years of marriage. “Both oeuvre - also because of their perfection - always walked a bit on the fine line between erotic underlayed fantasy and luxurious kitsch. And yet above all they stand for an idea of ​​cultivated cosmopolitan elegance in the art world of the Federal Republic of Germany of the 60s and 70s, ”says the Photo Bastion Zurich.

Between 1984 and 1987 Karin Székessy also created around 300 cover photos for Ullstein crime novels.

Karin Székessy lives and works in Hamburg and southern France.

Her father was the business lawyer Wolfgang Pohle .

Awards

Exhibitions

  • 1970: Recklinghausen Municipal Art Gallery; Art and Photography, Munich
  • 1974: Canon Gallery, Amsterdam
  • 1975: Galerie Levy, Hamburg
  • 1976: Watari Gallery, Tokyo; Redfern Gallery, London; Kunsthalle zu Kiel ; Photokina special show , Cologne
  • 1979: German photography after 1945, Kunstverein Kassel; Watari Gallery, Tokyo; Huntley Gallery, Canberra / Australia
  • 1980: Goethe Institute , Brussels
  • 1981: Galerie Negru, Paris
  • 1982: Redfern Gallery, London
  • 1983: Nikon Gallery, Zurich
  • 1986: Benteler Gallery, Houston / Texas
  • 1988: Foto-Forum, Bremen, BAT Hamburg
  • 1989: Photo Art, Basel
  • 1990: Min Gallery, Tokyo
  • 1993: Photo Museum, Bremen
  • 1995: Jewish Museum, Rendsburg; Kodak Gallery, Tokyo
  • 1996: Redfern Gallery, London
  • 1997: Galerie Hill, Basel
  • 1999: Foto + Camera Museum, Leipzig
  • 2005: Art Association Aurich
  • 2008: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg : Retrospective as part of the 4th Triennial of Photography
  • 2009: Schloss Cappenberg : photography poetry between black and white
  • 2012: Town house Ulm : Karin Székes sy
  • 2017: Städtische Galerie Fähre , Bad Saulgau: Karin Székessy: Photographs 1957–2017 (extensive retrospective)
  • 2017: Photobastei, Zurich: Karin Székessy: Photographs 1957–2017 (first retrospective in Switzerland)
  • 2018/19: f 3 - freiraum für photography, Berlin: #womenphotographer Vol. I with Berenice Abbott , Merry Alpern, Diane Arbus , Elinor Carucci, Nan Goldin , Germaine Krull , Dorothea Lange , Vivian Maier , Inge Morath , Ruth Orkin , Rosemarie Pierer , Dayanita Singh , Annette von Keudell and Karin Székessy, organized by the Society for Humanistic Photography
  • 2019: Chaussee 36 I Galerie 36, Berlin: Karin Székessy - Sculptural I Surreal

Publications

Photo publications in Kristall , Das Magazin , Camera, Photo, Brigitte , Twen , Avantgarde, Japan Playboy , Leica Japan, Die Zeit , Zeit-Magazin, Der Spiegel , Die Welt , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) etc.

Books

  • Les Filles dans l'Atelier. Paris 1969
  • with Paul Wunderlich : Correspondences. Edited by Fritz J. Raddatz . Belser, Stuttgart / Zurich 1977, ISBN 3-7630-1691-0
  • Parisian characters , Stuttgart 1978
  • Best nudes. Tokyo 1979
  • Girls in the studio. With an afterword by Max Bense . Harenberg, Dortmund 1985, ISBN 3-88379-465-1
  • Girls like still life. Verlag Photographie, Schaffhausen 1988, ISBN 3-7231-8400-6
  • with Wolfgang Klähn: Sylt - An island life. Watercolors and drawings, photographs. Edited by Thomas Gädecke. Harenberg, Dortmund 1989, ISBN 3-88379-543-7
  • Photographs: plaster - gypsum - gypse. Edition Huber, Offenbach 1997, ISBN 3-921785-70-7
  • Digital photography. CC-Verlag, Hamburg
    • Flowers. 2000
    • Fruit. 2001
    • Leaves. 2001
  • Karin Székessy - Photography. Edition Braus, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89904-295-5
  • Bell'ami. 40 years of observation. Thiekötter, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-939838-14-2

Book illustrations

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Karin Székessy. Photographs 1957–2017. In: Photobastei. Retrieved November 7, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Julika Pohle: Exhibition: The MKG shows photographs by Karin Székessy . In: The world . April 16, 2008
  3. ↑ Ulm is showing photographs by Karin Székessy for the first time . In: Schwäbisches Tagblatt . April 3, 2012
  4. ↑ Monika Fischer: One of the great photographers shows her work . In: Schwäbische.de . ( schwaebische.de [accessed on August 5, 2017]).
  5. ↑ KARIN SZÉKESSY - Photographs 1957–2017 –vfg– association of photographic designers. Retrieved September 5, 2017 .
  6. ↑ #womenphotographer Photographers of the 20th Century, Berlin. In: fhochdrei. October 30, 2018, accessed March 8, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Székessy, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH eat