Kilian Breier

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Kilian Breier (born July 8, 1931 in Saarbrücken ; † April 14, 2011 in Hamburg ) was a German photographer who has provided important impulses in the field of concrete photography since the 1950s .

biography

Kilian Breier studied painting at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1952 to 1953 and studied photography at the State School for Art and Crafts in Saarbrücken with Hannes Neuner and Otto Steinert from 1953 to 1955 . From 1959 to 1962 he was a member of the Neue Gruppe Saar , from 1961 to 1966 he was a lecturer at the Werkkunstschule in Darmstadt. In 1966 he was appointed professor of photography at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts , where he worked at the Institute for Visual Communication from 1968 to 1999. From 1972, media work in the visual communication department of the HfBK in Hamburg was at the center of his work, with projects being self-published by “material” at the Hamburg university. Breier had been a member of the German Society for Photography and the Society of German Photographers since 1966 . Kilian Breier lived in Hamburg until his death in 2011.

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Breier's photographic work moved in the context of the visual arts, always looking for the specific means of photography. The material and its properties should speak for itself, the interventions of the designer should be revealed. The results showed connections to other artists from Concrete Art at the end of the 1950s . Breier was finally invited in 1960 by Otto Piene and Heinz Mack to take part in the last catalog production of Group Zero for the exhibition "Zero 3" in Milan.

The photographic object, the motif, became increasingly superfluous in Breier's search for the basics of design in the laboratory. An essential drive of Breiers was to go back to the "zero point" of the design right up to the work in the 1990s. In his "Lichtnutz" from the 1980s, Breier exposed photo paper to normal daylight or office light in order to accumulate the light blackening of the paper in slow "oxidations".

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1954 Saarland Artists Association, Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken
  • 1957 Abstract, concrete, Kunsthalle Darmstadt
  • 1960 non-representational photography, Gewerbemuseum, Basel
  • 1960 Exhibition by the Zero Group, Taiwan
  • 1962 Nouvelles voies de la photographie, Musée de l'Etat, Luxembourg
  • 1964 Exhibition Zero, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
  • 1966 Confrontation 1966, Heide Hildebrand Gallery, Klagenfurth
  • 1975 Photography 1929 - 1975, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
  • 1983 Photograms - the light-rich shadows, Photo Museum in the Munich City Museum
  • 1987 Photographic work 1953-1986, Galerie St. Johann, Saarbrücken (catalog)
  • 1989 “New Works”, Photo Forum Bremen
  • 1991 Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken (catalog)
  • 1992 Kilian Breier, Photography 1953-1990, Museum for Art and Commerce Hamburg (catalog)
  • 2011 Runge Today. Constructed Sensation-Observable Time, Kunsthaus Hamburg

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the Hamburger Abendblatt from April 23, 2011 , accessed on May 20, 2011
  2. ↑ IFA Gallery ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kuenstlerdatenbank.ifa.de
  3. ↑ Vienna photo gallery
  4. ^ Kilian Breier, Fotografik 1953 - 1990, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg 1992, here: Thilo Koenig, Der Weg ist das Ziel, pp. 9-16.

Web links

Literature by and about Kilian Breier in the catalog of the German National Library

personal data
SURNAME Breier, Kilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 2011
Place of death Hamburg