Knut Wolfgang Marron

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Knut Wolfgang Maron, 2016

Knut Wolfgang Maron (born December 29, 1954 in Bonn ) is a German photo artist and professor for experimental photography at the University of Wismar .

Live and act

From 1973 onwards, Maron trained as a photographer with Gerhard Sachsse (1920–1998) in Bonn and from 1976 attended the Rheinbach School of Glass . From 1977 to 1983 he studied at the Folkwangschule in Essen in the class of Otto Steinert and Erich vom Endt and graduated with a diploma in visual communication. He is connected to subjective photography through Otto Steinert . In the 1980s he lived in Paris for a few years.

Since 1993 he has been professor for experimental photography at the University of Wismar , department of design / interior architecture (formerly Heiligendamm branch), from 1996 to 1998 he was dean there.

Ute Eskildsen exhibited Maron's first color works from 1979 in 1981 at the Museum Folkwang . Maron received the 1993 Leopold Godowsky Jr. Award for Color Photography from the Photographic Recource Center , Boston. Maron's works are in the collections of the Museum Folkwang, Essen, the Museum Ludwig , Cologne, the collection of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , the State Museum Schwerin , the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart , the Maison européenne de la photographie , Paris, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France , Paris.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 2003: Knut Wolfgang Maron - photographs. The three groups of works 1980–2003. Gallery of the City of Remscheid
  • 2010: Musée de l'Image, Épinal
  • 2012–2013 One life. Kunsthalle Erfurt , Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr , State Museum Schwerin , White Box, New York (traveling exhibition)
  • 2016: Knut Wolfgang Maron. One life (as part of the annual theme The shutdown of time - photographic positions on the phenomenon of time )

schaelpicphotokunstbar, Cologne

Group exhibitions

Publications

  • Images about landscapes. Knut Wolfgang Marron. Exhibition from September 19 to October 19, 1991, Stadtmuseum Siegburg. Rheinlandia-Verlag, Siegburg 1991, ISBN 3-925551-26-3 .
  • Des paysages des animaux. Des hommes et des choses. 1980-1994. École des Beaux-Arts, Metz 1995. (Exhibition catalog: February 15 - March 19, 1995, École des Beaux-Arts de Metz. June 10 - July 13, 1995, Kunsthalle Kühlungsborn)
  • One life. Kerber, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86678-737-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Knut Wolfgang Maron-Dorn on the website of the University of Wismar, accessed on September 12, 2014.
  2. ^ The mausoleum of Knut Wolfgang Maron , exhibition information in ruhr.speak.de from November 13, 2012.
  3. ^ Maron, Knut Wolfgang In: Kürschner's handbook of the visual artists: Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Volume 2, Walter de Gruyter, 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-094567-6 , p. 691.
  4. ↑ Leopold Godowsky, Jr. Color Photography Awards ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Boston University website @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bu.edu
  5. ↑ Knut Wolfgang Maron ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2014 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. museum-schwerin.de. Retrieved September 11, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museum-schwerin.de
  6. ^ The last years of Margarete M. In: Christ and World , edition 34/2012. Retrieved September 12, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Marron, Knut Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maron-Dorn, Knut Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photo artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn , Germany