Margret Wenzel-Jelinek

Margret Wenzel-Jelinek (also Margret Dieberger-Wenzel-Jelinek ; * before 1957 in Bozen ) is an Austrian photographer and painter .

Life

She began her training as a photographer at the Höhere Graphische Bundes-Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna and continued this at the academy in Zurich .

Reports in fashion and politics for daily newspapers and magazines were among her first professional tasks. From 1957 she created works of still photography for Austrian and American films and in 1958 she opened her own studio for fashion and advertising photography and published the first Austrian fashion supplement a. a. in the courier out. In 1959 she passed the master's examination for photography .

From 1969 works of political photography a. a. Chancellor election campaign for Bruno Kreisky and Helmut Kohl , press work for Margaret Thatcher , press and poster photography for election campaigns at home and abroad.

She lives and works in Vienna. Since 1990 she has been a member of the Künstlerhaus Wien .

Publications

• Photo book conductors (1986)
• Photo book Great Singers - World Stars in Scene and Portrait (1989)
• Photo book Kapital Wald (in cooperation with Spectrum of Science and 16 basic researchers from the universities of Vienna, Zurich, Munich, Heidelberg and Hanover)
• Photo book Vienna Valuable

Exhibitions

• Traveling exhibition Kapital Wald (1992 to 1994)
• Fashion Photography 1960-1980 , Künstlerhaus Vienna (2003)
• Master-student-master , Künstlerhaus Vienna (idea and organization, 2004)
• Gallery to the ground floor and first floor, Korneuburg (2007)

Awards

• Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art 1st Class (2007)
• Culture Medal of the State of Upper Austria (2008)

as well as a number of awards from the professional group

Web links

• Margaret Wenzel-Jelinek's website
• Photo archive M. Wenzel-Jelinek in the National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Margret Wenzel-Jelinek (Dieberger) , in: Web presence of the Künstlerhaus Wien