Manfred-Michael Sackmann

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Manfred-Michael Sackmann (* 1952 in Seesen ) is a German photographer .

Life

Manfred Michael Sackmann grew up in Salzgitter. He started taking photos at the age of 19. He moved to West Berlin in 1975. From 1978 to 1982 he trained at Ulrich Görlich's photography workshop . Since 1992 he has been a member of the Association of Berlin Artists. In 1994 he was appointed to the German Society for Photography (DGPh). Sackmann lives and works in Berlin.

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The human being as a cultural and social actor is the predominant theme of Sackmann's work. Outsiders in particular were the focus of his interest early on. Since the late 1970s, photo series of homosexual pubs and "tuna balls" have been made. Documentary series of vernissages and “miss elections” have been added since the 1980s. Sackmann also works in the studio, where he particularly devotes himself to nude and portrait photography. In particular in the 1980s and 1990s, internationally acclaimed portrait series of personalities of contemporary history were created in various collaborations, including Leni Riefenstahl , Joseph Beuys , AR Penck , Helmut Newton , Markus Lüpertz , Andy Warhol , Wolf Vostell , Hans-Olaf Henkel , Klaus Töpfer , Birgit Breuel and Detlev Rohwedder . Sackmann has made numerous photo contributions in various specialist journals and magazines, etc. a. in European Photography , Photography, CULTURE , Der Spiegel , Tip , Zeitmagazin , Zitty and ZOOM . Sackmann's photo documentation on the social effects of the immune deficiency disease AIDS in the 1980s met with great interest.

Reception of non-European art

Since the early 1990s, Sackmann began to deal intensively with the aesthetics of non-European art. Apart from building up an extensive private collection, detailed image documentation was created, particularly on the art of Africa. Cooperation in connection with the reception of non-European cultures arose. a. with the ethnologist Nils Seethaler , the gallery owner Rudolf Springer and the Samurai Art Museum in Berlin.

Group and solo exhibitions in public museums (selection)

Group and solo exhibitions in private galleries (selection)

  • 1977: Galerie focus, Berlin
  • 1982: Gallery workshop photography
  • 1984: Van Roy Gallery, Berlin
  • 1985: Lindemanns Gallery, Stuttgart
  • 1988: Galerie Brück, Munich
  • 1992: Galerie VBK, Berlin
  • 2003: Nude Gallery Berlin

Public collections (selection)

literature

  • Heiko Sievers / Gabriele Muschter. Berlin, November 1989. 14 photographers from East and West witness the opening of the Wall. An exhibition by the Goethe Institute and the Berlin Senate. 1990
  • Workshop for photography at the VHS Kreuzberg. Work 81. Berlin 1982.
  • Arnica Large: Shareholders. The bare being. An exhibition in the Association of Berlin Artists. Berlin 2010
  • Minister of State in the Foreign Office Cornelia Pieper / Embassy of the Republic of Poland (publisher): korespondenja / korrespondenz. Opole Czerwiec / Berlin 2010
  • Barbara Harding: The "Arts of Asia" Conversation with Peter Janssen of the Samurai Art Museum (Photographs by Manfred M. Sackmann). In: Arts of Asia. July / August 2019, pp. 22–32.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Koetzle, Manfred-Michael Sackmann. In: The nude photo. Aesthetics history ideology. Berlin / Lucerne 1985, p. 432.
  2. ↑ Workshop for Photography at VHS Kreuzberg (Ed.): Arbeit 83. Berlin 1984, p. 78 ff.
  3. ↑ Volker Mann: In the game of the senses. Exhibition in the Association of Berlin Artists: Manfred-Michael Sackmann seeks tension in detail. In: The magazine. No. 4, 992, pp. 31-35.
  4. ^ Michael Koetzle: Manfred-Michael Sackmann. In: ZOOM. 7-8 / 1983, pp. 74-79.
  5. ↑ http://www.artnet.de/k%C3%BCnstler/manfred-m-sackmann/joseph-beuys-zeitgeist-ausstellung-berlin-PFtHvdEvQ8iLhjrF3thetg2 (accessed September 17, 2019)
  6. ↑ Leica World: Leni Riefenstahl - Up to Obsession. Volume 2/2000: pp. 25/27
  7. ↑ http://www.artnet.de/k%C3%BCnstler/manfred-m-sackmann/ar-penck-galerie-springer-berlin-VvaszVF8qS03WJTKOgldSw2 (accessed September 17, 2019)
  8. ↑ https://www.fotocommunity.de/fotograf/manfred-michael-sackmann/422565 (accessed September 17, 2019)
  9. ^ Workshop for photography at VHS Kreuzberg (editor): Arbeit 83. Berlin 1984, p. 78ff.
  10. ↑ Der Spiegel No. 33/1985: p. 154
  11. ↑ Der Spiegel No. 45/1984: p. 111
  12. ↑ Der Spiegel No. 29/1984: pp. 130/131
  13. ↑ Der Spiegel No. 37/1983: p. 156
  14. ↑ Michael Nungesser / Irena Nalepa (editor): Cult, Magic and Abstraction. African tribal art and imagery by Hamid S. Neiriz. Exhibition October 26, 2001 - February 17, 2002 Spandau Citadel. Pp. 143-207.
  15. ↑ https://www.gazette-berlin.de/artikel/329-samurai-art-museum-in-zehlendorf.html (accessed on September 20, 2019)
  16. ^ Association of Berlin Artists (ed.): Berlin - Oslo / Oslo - Berlin. 2004
  17. ^ Association of Berlin Artists (ed.): Berlin - Oslo / Oslo - Berlin. 2004
  18. ^ New Society for Fine Arts: Stadtfotografie Berlin. 2nd edition, Berlin 1989, p. 130.
personal data
SURNAME Sackmann, Manfred-Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sackmann, Manfred Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Seesen