Martin Rosswog
Martin Rosswog (born May 31, 1950 in Bergisch Gladbach ) is a German photographer .
Life
Martin Rosswog lives and works in Lindlar . After studying social education in the first half of the 1970s, he worked as a freelance media educator and photographer from 1977 to 1981 . Rosswog was primarily active in youth and adult education and led photo and video groups . After studying supervision from 1980 to 1982 in Kassel, Rosswog began studying photography (free art course) at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1982 . After basic studies, he attended Bernd Becher's class from 1983 , and in 1987 he completed his studies as a master student of Bernd Bechers. Martin Rosswog thus belongs to the so-called Becher School , which in the second half of the 20th century belongs to the most prominent group of German photographers, including well-known photographers such as Andreas Gursky , Candida Höfer and Jörg Sasse .
The Rheinische Landesmuseum Bonn devoted Martin Rosswog in 2005 a comprehensive retrospective.
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In the 1980s and 1990s, Martin Rosswog created an extensive group of photographic portraits that, based on August Sander's system , represent contemporaries. Encouraged by Bernd Becher, towards the end of his studies, he portrayed former miners in text and images from the disused Zollern II / IV mine . Martin Rosswog then followed the documentary practice of his teachers Bernd and Hilla Becher.
From 1989 onwards, Martin Rosswog began a large-scale documentary work on the interiors of traditional European residential buildings in the countryside. Rosswog systematically takes photos in many countries, including Ireland , Great Britain , Russia , Finland , Romania and Hungary . These photographs reveal traditional forms of living that convey an impression of pre-industrial life and living in the country as well as their current development in the face of social changes. At the same time, documents of interiors and furnishings that have since disappeared were created. Rosswog photographs in black and white and in color. He almost exclusively uses large format cameras when there is light. In this way he avoids alienation caused by artificial light and underlines the documentary character of his work, which can be assigned to social documentary photography .
In addition to these works, which have been reproduced in several publications, Martin Rosswog photographs exterior views and the surroundings of the interior spaces he photographed. For example, in 2003 and 2004 he photographed the changes in the village of Vurpar (Burgberg) in Romanian Transylvania, caused by the departure of the Transylvanian Saxons.
Exhibitions
- 1990 Oberbergisches Museum Schloss Homburg, Nümbrecht
- 1994 Edgar Faure Gallery, Paris
- 1996 Magyar Mezögazdasági Múzeum, Budapest
- 1998 Kunstverein Hof, Hof / Bavaria
- 2000 Municipal Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
- 2002 Danube Swabian Central Museum Ulm
- 2005 Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn
- 2006 Museum Brukenthal, Sibiu, Romania
- 2008 Technology and Conference Center Marburg
- 2009 East Slovak Gallery, Kosice, Slovakia
- 2011 Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Germany
- 2015 Photographic collection of the SK Foundation Culture - Along Europe
Publications
- 1985 Flashback - survey of a generation, Cologne
- 1989 Images of People, Cologne
- 1994 Shift photographs, memories of the Zeche Zollern II / IV, Essen
- 1996 Rural interiors, Munich
- 1996 Asylum Pictures, Cologne
- 2001 Inside Houses, Cologne
- 2002 house stories, Heidelberg
- 2005 Heritage, Munich
- 2005 Schultenhöfe, Munich
- 2009 People on the Memel, with a text by Ulla Lachauer
- 2015 "Martin Rosswog - Milton, South Uist, Scotland", Munich
Web links
- Literature by and about Martin Rosswog in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of Martin Rosswog
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rosswog, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bergisch Gladbach |