Klaus Dierßen (photographer)

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Klaus Dierßen (* 1949 in Hildesheim ) is a German artist, art and culture mediator, university professor and author of various specialist articles, primarily on the art of photography and graphics. He became known in the 1990s through long-term photographic observations of the changes in the former GDR .

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After graduating from high school, Klaus Dierßen studied art ( Franz Kumher , Hans-Werner Kalkmann), technology and biology at the University of Education in Lower Saxony, Hildesheim department . After completing his studies, he worked as a specialist teacher for art and technology at the Robert Bosch Comprehensive School in Hildesheim until his second state examination, where he was involved in the development of the "Aesthetic Education" focus there.

He then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Braunschweig higher teaching at secondary schools in art and craft education and to free art with master class diploma in artistic focus printmaking and photography at Malte Sartorius .

From 1976 to 2018 he taught first as a lecturer in art and cultural education and later as a professor for fine arts and photography in the course of cultural studies and aesthetic practice at the Hildesheim University of Applied Sciences (today Hildesheim University Foundation ). There he was involved in the development of the cultural pedagogy course , later “Cultural Studies and Aesthetic Practice”. The denomination of his professorship was “Fine Arts and Photography”. In the years 2004–2005 he was Dean of Studies of Faculty 2 - Cultural Studies and Aesthetic Communication at the University of Hildesheim Foundation.

  • 2002–2004 teaching assignment "Photography as contemporary art in theory and practice" in the subject of art / art education, University of Osnabrück
  • 2006–2010 Academy meets Photokina Cologne, universities exhibit photographic study results (together with Ditmar appointed)
  • 2007–2019 member of the jury for the Piepenbrock Art Promotion Prize for students at the University of Osnabrück
  • 2008–2011 Photo Festival HORIZONTE Zingst, development and support of the student exhibition program "Young Professionals" (YP) by and with students from the University of Hildesheim

Memberships

  • Association of visual artists (BBK) Lower Saxony, Hildesheim group
  • Kunstverein Hildesheim with an advisory role
  • Artist group with gallery 'arche' Hameln
  • German Society for Photography (DGPh) in Cologne
  • Chairman of the Art Association Hildesheim (1998–2012)
  • Board member in the Education Section of the DGPh (1999-2014)

Publications (selection)

  • Screen printing and photo screen printing on paper and fabric (Heinrich Birkner, Klaus Dierßen), Verlag Otto Maier Ravensburg, 1975
  • Klaus Dierßen - graphics (cat.) (Texts by Manfred Meinz, Helmut Kommer), Kulturgeschichtliches Museum Osnabrück 1985
  • Klaus Dierßen - Graphics (cat.) (Texts Dieter Lüttge, Helmut Gressieker), Kunstverein Hildesheim, 1985
  • After and After (Klaus Dierßen and Ditmar appointed), ed. from the Kunstverein Hildesheim, Bramsche 1993 (awarded the Kodak Photo Book Prize 1994)
  • VIEWED - in East Germany (Klaus, Dierssen, Ditmar appointed), Kunstverein Hildesheim (ed.), Rasch Verlag, Bramsche, 1995
  • The Chancellor's Little Heroes (Anushka Roshani and Cordt Schnibben), DER SPIEGEL, issue 46/1996
  • LOCHWERK (Ditmar skull), text by Klaus Dierssen, Duisburg, 1997
  • Black-and-white? (Kunstverein Leverkusen, Federal Ministry of the Interior), catalog for the traveling exhibition on the Year of Seniors, Bonn, 1999
  • TIME form | FORMzeit (Klaus Dierßen, text by Dr. Jutta Felke), graphics and photography (cat.), Kunstverein Salzgitter, 2001
  • KUNSTSITZ (Klaus Dierssen, text by Beatrix Nobis), Museum for Photography Braunschweig (ed.), Rasch Verlag Bramsche 2002
  • Work passages | Homepage (DEPOT), Hildesheim, 2009
  • LIGHT. ROOM. MAGIE (cat.) (Photography and photography, texts by Michael Freitag, Dr. Bettina Uhlig), Lyonel-Feininger Galerie Quedlinburg Museum of Graphic Arts, 2018

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1985: Osnabrück Cultural History Museum
  • 1986: black on white. Erasers show graphics, Kunstverein Hildesheim
  • 1988: Art Center Koppelschleuse, Meppener Kunstkreis
  • 1992: District Museum-Museum for Everyday Culture Peine; Gallery for Photography, Rotenburg / W.
  • 1993: Aschersleben District Museum
  • 1993: Kunstverein Hildesheim (book DANACH UND DANACH)
  • 1994: Senftenberg District Museum near Dresden; Ravensburg Museum
  • 1995: Roemer-Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim (book ANGESEHEN - in East Germany); Gallery ARCHE Hameln
  • 1996: Stadtische Galerie Nordhorn
  • 1997: Cubus Kunsthalle Duisburg; Schleswig-Holstein House Schwerin; Gallery of the Gerhard Mercator University Duisburg
  • 2001: Salzgitter Art Association
  • 2002: Museum for Photography Braunschweig
  • 2004: Osnabrück Cultural History Museum, Felix Nussbaum House
  • 2009: Gallery in the Stammelbach reservoir Hildesheim
  • 2013: SHADE - photo works, gallery 'arche' Hameln
  • 2014: SHADE - Photographic Images; BBK-Artothek Klinikum Hildesheim
  • 2015: PHOTOworks - Art with Photography, Weser Renaissance Castle Bevern, Kunstkreis Holzminden
  • 2015: LICHTUNGEN - Photographic Pictures, Kunstverein Wunstorf
  • 2017: LICHTUNGEN, Kunstkreis Kloster Brunshausen
  • 2018: LIGHT SPACE MAGIC, photography | Photography, Lyonel-Feininger, Galerie Quedlinburg, Museum of Graphic Arts
  • 2019: IN_VERSION, photography | Photography, gallery 'arche' Hameln; Gallery in the Stammelbach reservoir Hildesheim

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Dr Jörg Diederich Press office: Klaus Dierßen. October 4, 2010, accessed February 24, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Dierßen, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, art and culture educator, university professor and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim