Martin Fengel

Martin Fengel (born September 1964 in Munich ) is a German photographer and artist. Among other things, he is a lecturer for photography and graphic design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich .

Life

Fengel lives and works in his hometown, where he attended the Bavarian State School for Photography from 1985 to 1987 . He then lived in New York until 1991 and worked as an assistant to Amy Arbus and Mary Ellen Mark , among others .

In addition to regular illustrations and photographs for established journals and magazines, for example for ZEITmagazin and Vice , numerous national and international exhibitions and exhibition participation took place. Fengel's works can be found in the collections of the Munich Pinakothek der Moderne , the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus , the DEKA-Bank , the Munich Photo Museum , the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main and Munich Re .

Fengel also works as a filmmaker and shoots videos for DJ Hell . Together with Jörg Koopmann , he runs the “glossy” photo forum in Munich. In 2000 he was a co-founder of the Herburg Weiland agency.

Wall design in the Munich-Moosach underground station

In 2010 he designed the back rail walls of the Munich subway station Moosach . Large-format images of various plants and animals are attached to the white panels. Fengel photographed the motifs in the Moosach district. In October 2012, Bayerischer Rundfunk broadcast the 45-minute report A day in the life of Martin Fengel by Armin Kratzert in the LIDO series .

Exhibitions

• 2012/2013: Martin Fengel. Wax. , Villa Stuck , Munich

Awards and grants

• 1993: Project studies at the Mathias Pschorr Hackerbräu Foundation
• 1994: Bavarian Photo Prize of the Danner Foundation
• 2000: Foreign scholarship from the City of Munich for Edinburgh
• 2004: Bavarian Art Prize in the Fine Arts category

Web links

Commons : Martin Fengel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Artist website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lecturer , Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, accessed on May 14, 2014.
2. ↑ Martin Fengel ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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. , Institute for Foreign Relations , accessed on May 14, 2014. 
3. ↑ Martin Fengel - Biography / Bibliography ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Nusser & Baumgart , accessed May 14, 2014. 
4. ^ Martin Fengel On Photography ( Memento from May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Kerber-Verlag.
5. ↑ ^{a b} A day in the life of Martin Fengel ( Memento from November 12, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), BR, 2012.
6. ^ Elisabeth Hartung-Hall: Jörg Koopmann LEBEN + ARBEIT ; Munich, 2003 ( Memento from April 9, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ About . Herburg Weiland website, accessed on October 16, 2019
8. ↑ click! Martin Fengel photographed - a guest performance in Shanghai , BR, January 17th 2013.
9. ^ Announcement on the exhibition , accessed on November 23, 2014.