Karl-Ludwig Lange

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Karl-Ludwig Lange (born December 12, 1949 in Minden ) is a German photographer .

Life

Long grew up in Minden / Westphalia. At the age of 17 he dropped out of school there, moved to West Berlin and began training as a photographer. Lange then completed an internship at the German Press Agency (dpa). In 1972 he was assistant to Will McBride in Munich and made various trips through Scandinavia , England , France , Italy , Switzerland and Japan . From 1973 he pursued exclusively independent work. Lange was an appointed member of the German Society for Photography (DGPh) from 1991 to 2012 .

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Karl-Ludwig Lange sees himself as a city photographer. His focus is on urban history and industrial archeology . Extensive groups of works such as “ Gasometer Schöneberg ” (1981); “ New Gothic in Berlin” (1982–1984), “Märkische Ziegeleien und Ziegel” (1993) or “Grenzwechsel” (1994) were created exclusively in black and white . Lange does not see himself as an architectural photographer, but rather as an urban documentarist. He photographed the changes in Berlin for over forty years. The Tagesspiegel writes that for a long time it was about "showing the scars, fractures and fallows in the city". He was able to depict the “attitude to life” of the city dwellers, who were resigned for a long time after the division: “There wasn't much left of the old meaning, and certainly not of the old splendor. Hold on and carry on, was the motto. Hope for better days. ”But even after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin was“ still a scene of destruction ”for Lange and his pictures.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1975: Galerie Nagel, Berlin
  • 1976: Fotoforum Kassel, Kassel
  • 1981: Gallery Poll, Berlin
  • 1982: Berlinische Galerie , Berlin
  • 1983: Kunstverein, Munich
  • 1983: Il diaframma, via Brera, Milan
  • 1987: Berliner Festspiele , Berlin
  • 1991: Interferences, Riga, St. Petersburg
  • 1994: Max-Müller Bhavan, New Delhi
  • 1994: Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin
  • 1998: New Berlin Art Association , Berlin
  • 2000: City Museum, Berlin
  • 2003: Berlin-Moscow, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
  • 2004: York Quay Gallery, Toronto
  • 2007: Goethe-Institut , Damascus
  • 2009: Gallery for contemporary art , Leipzig
  • 2009: Brandenburg Gate Foundation in the Max-Liebermann House, Berlin
  • 2009: German Bundestag , Berlin
  • 2011: House of History, Leipzig
  • 2014–2015: Exhibition project of the municipal galleries in Berlin and the Berlin regional museums as part of the 6th European Month of Photography Berlin: “Karl-Ludwig Lange. The photographer in his time. Berlin years 1973–2004. “Ten different exhibitions from October 1, 2014 to July 19, 2015.

literature

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  • Photography as Art - Art as Photography. Photo forum of the comprehensive university Kassel , catalog 1975.
  • Janos Frecot : Berlin photo fish. Photography in Berlin 1860–1982. Berlinische Galerie. Medusa 1982, ISBN 3-88602-063-0 .
  • Carolin Förster: Karl-Ludwig Lange - Berlin, Berlin. How the city becomes a picture. In: Rundbrief Fotografie , Vol. 22 (2015), No. 3, p. 37 ff.
  • Wolfgang Jean Stock: Urban jungle. Art Association Munich. Fröhlich & Kaufmann, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-88725-007-9 .
  • Karl-Ludwig Lange (photos), Peter Bloch, Richard Schneider (texts): Berlin - Neo-Gothic buildings. Edited by Richard Schneider. Nicolai, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-87584-129-8 .
  • Karl-Ludwig Lange, Hans W. Mende: The Tiergarten district. Galerie Eva Poll, Berlin 1986.
  • Just a brick factory - the ring kiln in Glindow . In: Bauwelt . Edition 10/1991.
  • Karl-Ludwig Lange, Andreas Krase: Topography of the Berlin Wall: 1973–1990. Photographs. Ed. Documentation Center Berlin Wall. Ex-pose, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-925935-51-7 .
  • Karl-Ludwig Lange, Andreas Krase: Change of border. Catalog for November 9, 1994, Kulturfonds Foundation.
  • Karl-Ludwig Lange, Dirk Palm (texts): The Berlin Wall: Photographs 1973–2007. Sutton, Erfurt, ISBN 978-3-86680-195-0 .
  • Karl-Ludwig Lange: The photographer in his time. Berlin years 1973–2004. Edited by Matthias Harder. Nicolai, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-89479-877-2 .
  • Hans-Michael Koetzle: The Lexicon of Photographers. Knaur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-426-66479-8 .
  • City views. From the photographic collection of the Stadtmuseum Berlin. Catalog Stiftung Stadtmuseum, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-910029-29-9 .
  • Hans Christian Adam: Berlin, portrait of a city. Taschen, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-8228-1445-1 .
  • Matthias Harder: Scenes and traces of a case. Brandenburg Gate Foundation. Nicolai, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89479-528-3 .
  • TO Immisch, Floris m. Neusüss: The second avant-garde. The Kassel Photo Forum. Moritzburg Foundation , 2007, ISBN 978-3-89812-490-4 .
  • Thomas Wiegand: Germany in a photo book. Edited by Manfred Heiting. Steidl, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-386930-249-2 .
  • Christian Philipsen, Thomas Bauer-Friedrich (eds.), Ins Offene - Photo Art in Eastern Germany since 1990 , Cat. Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle / Saale, Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-96311-046-7 .
  • Aribert Giesche, Karl-Ludwig Lange, The houses on Bölschestrasse in Berlin-Friedrichshagen , Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86732-270-6

Movie

  • Karl-Ludwig Lange. The photographer. Documentary by Benjamin Ochse. Germany 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Schröder: Berlin photographer Karl-Ludwig Lange. City of Scars. In: Der Tagesspiegel , October 24, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Lange, Karl-Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Minden