Matthias Creutziger

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Matthias Creutziger (* 1951 in Härtensdorf ) is a German photographer who works primarily in the fields of jazz , classical music , theater and the visual arts .

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After finishing school, Creutziger completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and in 1970 completed his Abitur at the adult education center in Zwickau . This was followed by a degree in structural engineering in Cottbus and Dresden and then until 1983 working as a project engineer in Dresden.

Creutziger came into contact with music at an early age and founded a band while at school; Between 1967 and 1977 he played drums in various rock and blues bands . In 1976 Creutziger published his first article on jazz in the newspaper Die Union . Further contributions followed; From 1979 the first photos of jazz concerts were taken. As a photographer he is self-taught . From 1983 Creutziger worked as a freelance photographer and was editor of the GDR jazz calendar from 1982 to 1984. In the mid-1980s, Creutziger discovered opera photography through the “Arbeitsgruppe Theaterplakat”, a free artist group belonging to the Dresden State Theater, and also worked for the Dresden Philharmonic and the Staatskapelle Dresden .

The Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden with its chief conductor Christian Thielemann, Semperoper 2018, photography by Matthias Creutziger

In 1988 Creutziger left the GDR with his family and initially settled in Hanover . Between 1989 and 1991 he was jazz advisor to the Lower Saxony State Music Council . In 1989 he was appointed to the German Society for Photography .

From 1990 Creutziger lived in Mutterstadt and worked for the Schwetzingen Festival and the Heidelberg City Theater , among others . He was also active as a jazz critic and organizer of concerts, particularly in Dresden and Ludwigshafen. Between 1992 and 2008 he worked as a house photographer for the Dresden Center for Contemporary Music , from 1994 to 2004 he was the house photographer of the Theater im Pfalzbau (Ludwigshafen) and from 2003 to 2015 he was a theater photographer at the Semperoper in Dresden. Since then, Creutziger, who has lived in Dresden since 2003, has been working as a freelance photographer, primarily for the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden; since 2004 he has also been the in-house photographer of the Tonne jazz club . Creutziger is occasionally also active as a journalist, for example for the daily newspaper Dresdner Latest Nachrichten and the magazine Sax .

Since the 1980s, Creutziger has also exhibited his photographs outside of Germany in solo and group exhibitions, for example the Jazz Photography 1998 exhibition in Ljubljana . Among other things, he was with photos at the traveling exhibition Freejazz in the GDR. World level involved in the surveillance state of the Federal Agency for Civic Education on Jazz in the GDR, which was shown in various cities in Germany from 2013 to 2014. Creutziger presented several illustrated books with his own jazz photos; he was also able to contribute photographs to numerous books. From the 1980s onwards, there was an intensive collaboration with the graphic artist Jürgen Haufe , who used Creutziger's photographs "collaged, painted over, fragmented" as the basis for music posters. Haufe died in 1999; the exhibition Fascination Jazz. Work by Creutziger and Haufe showed traces of friendship in 2002; The exhibition Jürgen Haufe - Grafik; Matthias Creutziger - Photography in Freital .

Photo works by Creutziger can be found in the collections of the Kupferstichkabinette Dresden , Leipzig and Berlin , the Staatliche Museen Berlin and Chemnitz, the Deutsche Fotothek Dresden , the Kestnergesellschaft Hannover, the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt and the Lippmann + Rau Music Archive Eisenach .

In 2000, Creutziger was awarded the first prize by the Society for Photography for his portrait photography Seven Steps to the Universe: The jazz pianist Michel Petrucciani was awarded the first prize at the 5th portrait photo show in Germany . In 2018 his Cuba calendar received Que bolá Cuba? a Gregor Photo Calendar Award . In March 2019, Creutziger won a bronze medal at the Japan Award and the Gregor Calendar Award in bronze for his Souks Inside calendar on markets in Morocco. For the Macropolis 2020 calendar - Time does not exist , Creutziger was awarded the Gregor Calendar Award Grand Prix in January 2020 .

At the beginning of April 2020, Creutziger fell seriously ill with COVID-19 . He was in a coma for almost five weeks.

Solo and double exhibitions (selection)

  • 1985: Jazz portraits , small gallery of the Dresden University of Education , Dresden
  • 1998: Jazz Photography , Cankarjev Dom, Mala galerija, Ljubljana
  • 2001/2002: Blue Notes & Olives , Galerie Kneise, Eisenach
  • 2002: fascination with jazz. Traces of a friendship (with the Jürgen Haufe estate), Koenig & Bauer AG Planeta Radebeul
  • 2010: JazzPositions , Galerie Grünstraße, Berlin-Köpenick
  • 2010: Magic and Irritation , Foyer of the Semperoper , Dresden
  • 2010: Magic and Irritation , Kunstparkplatz Dresden
  • 2011: Magic and Irritation , Villa Wieser, Herxheim
  • 2011: “Jazz” Other Worlds , Kunsthaus Frankenthal
  • 2011: Arnstadt Art Gallery
  • 2012: Jazz + other worlds , Galerie Beyer, Dresden
  • 2014: Jürgen Haufe - graphics; Matthias Creutziger - Photography , Freital Art Association in the Einnehmerhaus
  • 2016: Love, lust and passion , Palais in the Great Garden, Dresden
  • 2019–2020: Jazzblut , Schleswig-Holstein-Haus , Schwerin

Publications

  • Jazz photography , Wolke Verlag, Hofheim 1996
  • Klangvoll , LJO Rhineland-Palatinate, Konz 1998
  • Fascination Jazz , Koenig & Bauer AG, Radebeul 2001 (with Jürgen Haufe)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b biography on www.creutziger.de (as of February 22, 2020)
  2. ↑ a b c Christian Ruf: “Art must know no borders” . In: Sächsische Zeitung , March 14, 2012, p. 9.
  3. ↑ a b Matthias Creutziger (short biography) . In: Matthias Creutziger: Jazz photography . Wolke Verlag, Hofheim 1996, p. 2.
  4. ↑ a b short portrait (Jazzpages)
  5. ↑ a b Michael Ernst: Out of the spirit of music. Photographic themed trilogy by Matthias Creutziger in the Beyer Gallery . In: Dresdner Latest News , January 31, 2012, p. 11.
  6. ^ Biography of Matthias Creutziger on jazzclubtonne.de
  7. ↑ a b Florian Zinnecker: As in intoxication (portrait Matthias Creutziger). In: Opernwelt , April 2017, p. 58.
  8. ^ Mathias Bäumel: Jazz photos: Visible psychograms of adventurous music . In: Matthias Creutziger: Jazz photography . Wolke Verlag, Hofheim 1996, p. 10.
  9. ↑ a b Kultur Südwest (SWR) of March 1, 2000
  10. ^ Mathias Bäumel: Sensitive portraits of creative music . In: Dresdner Latest News , July 2, 1998.
  11. ↑ Note on the exhibition on erinnerungslabor.de
  12. ^ Mathias Bäumel: Solo: Jazz visuell . In: Andrea Wolter, Heinz Weise (eds.): Dresdner Musikführer . Verlag- und Publikzistikhaus, Dresden 2007, p. 335.
  13. ↑ Wolfgang Zimmermann: From two Saxons who have captured the soul of jazz . In: Sächsische Zeitung , September 25, 2002, p. 9.
  14. ↑ 5th portrait photo show of Germany on www.gff-foto.de (as of December 23, 2018)
  15. ↑ Prize winners 2018 on www.graphischer-klub-stuttgart.de (as of December 23, 2018)
  16. ↑ Successful photographer from Dresden with calendar in Japan. www.welt.de, March 13, 2019, accessed on March 13, 2019 .
  17. ↑ a b -ße: Art with Schimmel: Dresdner and Meißner receive price for calendar . dnn.de, January 25, 2020.
  18. ↑ Jörg Schurig: Dresden photographer has defeated Corona . In: Saxon newspaper . August 13, 2020 ( online for a fee [accessed on August 13, 2020]).
  19. ^ Note on the exhibition by Bernd Reznicek in the university newspaper, University of Education Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander, September 16, 1985.
  20. ↑ Axel Schöne: Dynamics - Concentration - Authenticity. For the exhibition “Jazz Portraits - Photos by Matthias Creutziger” . In: University newspaper, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander University of Education , June 12, 1985, p. 8.
  21. ^ Mathias Bäumel: Sensitive portraits of creative music . In: Dresdner Latest News , July 2, 1998.
  22. ↑ Thomas Seifert: A Jazz Moment . In: Thüringer Allgemeine , January 2, 2002.
  23. ↑ Wolfgang Zimmermann: From two Saxons who have captured the soul of jazz . In: Sächsische Zeitung , September 25, 2002, p. 9.
  24. ↑ Michael Ernst: Theater photographer with a love for jazz . musik-in-dresden.de, June 13, 2010.
  25. ^ Mathias Bäumel: Magic and Irritation - Photo exhibition of historical wig heads . musik-in-dresden.de, June 7, 2010.
  26. ^ Art car park 2010 - Matthias Creutziger . parkplaetze-dresden.de, accessed on December 23, 2018.
  27. ^ "Magic and Irritation" - portraits of historical mannequins , kunstportal-pfalz.de, accessed on December 23, 2018.
  28. ↑ Matthias Creutziger: “Jazz” Andere Welten , kunstportal-pfalz.de, accessed on December 23, 2018.
  29. ^ Klaus Ehring: Exhibition with photos by Matthias Creutziger in Arnstädter Kunsthalle . In: Thüringer Allgemeine , via kunsthalle-arnstadt.de, November 9, 2011.
  30. ↑ Karin Weber: Exhibition commemorates the Dresden painter Jürgen Haufe . dnn.de, September 9, 2015.
  31. ^ Aldo Lindhorst: Sound workshop with Günter Baby Summer and summer concert in Dresden Spring Show . dnn.de, April 5, 2016.
  32. ↑ “Jazzblut” - photographs by Matthias Creutzinger can be seen in the Kulturforum Schleswig-Holstein-Haus . Schwerin.de, November 26, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Creutziger, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concert and theater photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Härtensdorf