Manfred Zimmermann (photographer)
Manfred Zimmermann (* 1947 in Hanover ) is a German industrial photographer and publisher of art and photo books.
Life
After an apprenticeship as a photographer, he passed his master's examination in 1969 at the “Federal School for Photography” in Hamburg. A studio for advertising and industrial photography was founded in Hanover in 1970. In 1972 he graduated from the “Academy for Lower Saxony” with the state-certified communications specialist.
Orders for well-known industrial companies in Germany and Europe also took him to North and South America, China, Japan, New Zealand, Africa and Russia. The focus of his work lies in the artistic representation of industrial processes and systems as well as in the photography of personalities from politics, economy and church.
Zimmermann has been photographing his pictures with the title “People in the Working World” since 1970 as a freelance work accompanying his commercial commissions. They document the changes in the industrial world of work over a period of more than 40 years. Through his social commitment to the “Indianerhilfe Paraguay e. V. ”and for Kosovo there were also photo documentations, exhibitions and lectures. Zimmermann's paintings are in museums, public exhibitions and privately owned. The artistic collaboration with Gerd Winner and Rainer Mordmüller also resulted in books and two artistic portfolios about Venice ( Venecia Venice Venice Venice Venise ) and Paris ( Impressions en blanc et noir ). The latter contains an essay by the well-known French author and journalist Roger Grenier from Paris.
Awards
- 1979: European Master of Photography, awarded by Europhot
- 1980: German Business Photo Prize awarded by the Federal Minister of Economics
- 1981: Appointment to the German Society for Photography (DGPh)
- 1998: China National Collection of Photography Gold Medal
- 2000: Award of the Lower Saxony State Prize for the creative handicraft by the Lower Saxony Minister for Economics, Technology and Transport
- 2003: Awarded the professorship by the IVAS Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade (Association of Independent Professional Photographers of South East Europe)
- 2006: Awarded the Nikola Tesla Medal by the IVAS Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade (Association of Independent Professional Photographers of South East Europe)
Exhibitions
(Selection)
- 1982/83 traveling exhibition at the Deutsches Goethe Institute
- 1986 Employment Office Hanover "People in the world of work"
- 1990 Nord LB Hanover "Tension Fields - People and Work"
- 1991 Group exhibition in Moscow »Hanoverian Photographers«
- 1996 Bahlsen Museum Hanover "American Impressions"
- 1997/98 Hamburg, Lägerdorf, Hanover "Blow up - Close up"
- 1999 Chamber of Crafts Hanover "Strategic Vision"
- 2000 Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover "So that laughter has a future"
- 2001 Volkswagen Design, Wolfsburg "People in the world of work"
- 2002 Dominican monastery St. Albertus Magnus (Braunschweig) "The new organ"
- 2004
- Imago Kunstverein, Wedemark »symbols«
- Landessportbund Hannover "SportArt"
- Belgrade "Strategic Vision"
- Dominican Monastery of St. Albertus Magnus, Braunschweig »Detroit - Views of a City«
- 2004/05 traveling exhibition in Gdansk, Cracow, Warsaw »So that laughter has a future«
- 2005 Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover "Kosovo - Impressions of a Torn Country"
- 2006 Herzog August Bibliothek , Wolfenbüttel "VENEZIA VENICE VENICE VENISE"
- 2006/07 Museum of Ethnology , Hamburg "Indians in Paraguay"
- 2007 Palazzo Albrizzi , Venice "VENEZIA VENICE VENICE VENISE"
- 2008
- Gallery in the Haesler House, Celle »Street of Peace, Street of Sculptures«
- Dominican monastery St. Albertus Magnus, Braunschweig, art in the monastery "L'ART SACRÉ - liturgical rooms" Gerd Winner • Johannes Zahlten • Manfred Zimmermann
- 2009
- Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum , Hildesheim "L'ART SACRÉ - Liturgical Spaces" Ash Wednesday of the artists
- Herzog August Library , Wolfenbüttel "PARIS IMPRESSIONS EN BLANC ET NOIR" Rainer G. Mordmüller • Gerd Winner • Manfred Zimmermann
- 2010
- Art and Church Working Group, St. Michaelis Parish, Bissendorf "Beyond Death"
- ARTHEME GALERIE, Paris "PARIS IMPRESSIONS EN BLANC ET NOIR" Rainer G. Mordmüller • Gerd Winner • Manfred Zimmermann
- Art collections of the diocese of Regensburg "L'ART SACRÉ - liturgical spaces"
- 2011
- Landessportbund Hannover "AESTHETICS AND DYNAMICS OF SPORTS" (permanent exhibition)
- DEN LILLE KUNSTHAL, Avernakø / Denmark Ø-inspirationer »STEN | STJERNESTØV «
- German Bishops' Conference, Bonn "AT EQUAL LEVEL"
- Representation of the State of Lower Saxony at the European Union, Brussels "CATHEDRAL IN TRANSITION - THE HILDESHEIMER DOM"
- 2012
- House of Industry, Hanover "Touching Moments - Industrial Photography 2012"
- City of Pattensen, Volksbank Pattensen "Peine-Pattensen-Paris"
- DEN LILLE KUNSTHAL, Avernakø / Denmark Ø-inspirationer »SØM ÆRKER«
- 2013
- Catholic parish of St. Maria Immaculata, Wedemark "Fascination Faith - The Bernward Door in Hildesheim Cathedral"
- 2014
- Town hall, Hildesheim »Cathedral in transition«
Publications
Books
- 1996: Water Worlds
- 1999: Strategic Vision
- 2003: Bergen-Belsen - House of Silence
- 2005: Into the future - Indian aid in Paraguay
- 2008: St. Albertus Magnus - Dominican in Braunschweig
- 2008: The St. Andreas Chapel of the cathedral mechanic in Hildesheim, Episcopal General Vicariate, Hildesheim
- 2009: L'art sacré - liturgical spaces
- 2009: Holy Cross - Dominican monastery in Cologne
- 2010: Experience of light - space and time for reflection
- 2010: The Liebenburg Castle - house of worship and artist house
- 2012: Architecture projects in the Diocese of Hildesheim
- 2012: The rooms of silence - source of strength
- 2013: The Villa Seligmann - A house for Jewish music
- 2014: Searching for traces - documentation of the renovation of Hildesheim Cathedral 2010-2014
- 2014: Cathedral in transition - The Hildesheim Mariendom
brochures
- 1998: Detroit - Views of a City
- 1998: Blow up - Close up
- 2001: people and work
- 2001: Food Art
calendar
- 2000: "Lichtblicke"
- 2001: "experience mee / hr"
- 2002: "Steinhart"
- 2003: "Zeitzeichen"
- 2004: "sinnbilder" and Continental AG "Bear Calendar"
- 2005: "clairvoyant" and Volksbank Hannover calendar
- 2006: "Venice", RFS-Radio Frequency Systems and Konica Minolta sports calendar
- 2007: "Welt-Kultur-Erbe", Nexans Germany and RFS
- 2008: "New York", VB Autobatterie, Nexans and RFS
- 2009: "Paris" and Assistance Partner "Heroes" and Nexans
- 2010: "London", BLOCK Transformatoren-Elektronik 4-month calendar and Nexans
- 2011: "Berlin", BLOCK Transformatoren-Elektronik 4-month calendar, Nexans, Diocese Hildesheim "Bernwardtür - Dom Hildesheim" and BGH SL-Stahl
- 2012: "Touching Moments - Strategic Seeing", Shanghai 2012, Sitech Sitztechnik GmbH, BLOCK and Nexans
- 2013: "Touching Moments - Strategic Seeing", Koenig & Bauer AG, "Annual Calendar 2013", Nexans
- 2014: "Touching Moments - Strategic Seeing", Hackerodt Group, "Annual Calendar 2014", Nexans
- 2015: "Touching Moments - Strategic Seeing", Euromediahouse, "Lower Saxony - Poetry of a Landscape", Madsack Media Group
literature
- Literature by and about Manfred Zimmermann in the catalog of the German National Library
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sabine Wilp (text): The winners since 1958 , in this: Lower Saxony State Prize for the Design Craft 2016 (PDF document), ed. in cooperation with the Lower Saxony Ministry of Economics, Labor and Transport, Hanover: Handwerksform Hanover, 2016 [without page numbers]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zimmermann, Manfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German industrial photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |