Matthias Leupold

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Matthias Leupold (* 1959 in Berlin ) is a German photographer , documentary filmmaker and university lecturer. He lives and works in Berlin.

life and work

Matthias Leupold, son of Harry Leupold , Berlin stage and production designer, (1928–2013) and the fashion designer Willfriede Leupold, (born Lotz, 1922–2012), grew up in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg. After arrests (including February 1982 remand prison of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) in Hohenschönhausen ) and exhibition closings (March 1986: Bauhaus Dessau , May 1986: student club of the Dresden University of Fine Arts), Leupold legally moved to West Berlin in the autumn of 1986. There he studied from 1987 to 1994 at the Hochschule der Künste (HdK) (since 1995 UdK ) visual communication with degrees in designer and master class with Harry C. Suchland and Ludwig Thürmer. Since 1985 he has been a freelance photographer in the fields of art, media and industry. Leupold has been professor of artistic photography and digital image media at the BTK Berlin Technical Art Academy since 2007 and at the University of Applied Sciences Europe from 2017 .

Leupold's artistic means of expression are scenic photography and documentary film. In his serial works, Leupold gets to the bottom of the manifestations of groups of images and their social relationships. In 1988/89 he artistically re-analyzed the III. German Art Exhibition - Dresden, 1953 . Images of the exact beginning of the GDR formalism dispute were taken and photographically re-enacted. In 1994 the Military History Museum in Dresden showed these photographs at the location of what happened at the time. The ideological content of the German magazine Die Gartenlaube from around 1911/12 was taken up in a further black and white sequence of images and re-enacted with elaborate props, backgrounds and historical clothing.

In addition to the series, Leupold photographs individual images and tableaus in which emotional topics such as loneliness, homecoming, injury, need for protection, abundance and waste, as well as current social events and observations are visualized in condensed form. The image specifications of the real world and their pure documentation were initially insufficient for Leupold. Natural landscapes, urban squares and interiors, which he interprets in collaboration with lay people, photo models and actors, are spaces for his work. He gets inspiration from the unheard-of occurrence, the genius loci and from observing human relationships. Just as Leupold is not a casual eyewitness or contemporary witness as a photographer, he does not include the viewer in his artistic work: undisturbed and emotionally involved.

Sources of inspiration for Leupold are in particular Michelangelo , Hans Baldung Grien , Lucas Cranach the Elder , Leonardo da Vinci , and Robert Musil's novel The Man Without Qualities .

1997/1998 Leupold worked as a scholarship holder at the Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo in Rome. The pictures taken there, and especially in Lazio, are characterized by works of art from the Italian Renaissance , the southern light and the colors of the Mediterranean country.

He was at the exhibitions Art in the GDR in the Berlin National Gallery 2003, Berlin-Moscow / Moscow-Berlin Moscow 2004 and transition society. Portraits and scenes 1980–1990 in the Akademie der Künste 2009 and a private company in the Berlinische Galerie 2012 involved.

In addition to Hans-Hendrik Grimmling , painter, Cyrus Khazali, designer and Claus Bennefeld, businessman, Leupold was a co-founder of the BTK Berlin Technical Art Academy (2006), which opened up in 2017 as the Art & Design department of the University of Applied Sciences Europe . As rector (2007-2014) he initiated a. a. the photography course at BTK.

From 2011 to 2015 Leupold worked on the documentary Lighter than Orange - The Legacy of Dioxin in Vietnam , camera Armin Dierolf, which focuses on the biographies of Vietnamese war veterans. As victims of the United States' use of dioxin-containing defoliants , they are particularly hard hit by the aftermath of the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s. Further documentary film works in Lebanon and Switzerland followed.

Leupold is a member of the German Society for Photography (DGPh) and the German Photographic Academy.

Photographic image sequences (selection)

  • Berlin, 1988–1990: Flag roll call - scenic photographs for the III. German art exhibition in Dresden 1953
  • Berlin, 1994: Leupold's Gazebo - enthusiasts' recordings in memory of the German family paper Die Gartenlaube
  • Berlin, 1995: The Beauty of Women - Open-Air Photographic Studies

Filmography (selection)

  • 2015: Lighter than Orange - The Legacy of Dioxin in Vietnam Documentary, 72 min, director, production, 2015 GRAND PRIZE Documentary Feature Award of Socially Relevant Film Festival New York; Best Feature Documentary Los Angeles CineFest, broadcast worldwide EN; DE, ES, AR 2015: Deutsche Welle
  • 2016: The Noise of Letea , documentary, 29 min, director, production, ML camera ML, Eric Berg
  • 2019: The photographer Hugo Jaeggi - In addition, the dream is often enough reality , documentary, 52 min, director ML, Jérôme Depierre, world premiere Fine Arts Film Festival FAFF, Venice, Los Angeles CA, European premiere kult.kino Atelier, Basel
  • 2020: The Song of the Valley , documentary, 52 min, director ML, Marie Séférian , world premiere Courage Film Festival, Berlin

Publications (illustrated books)

  • Flag roll call - scenic photography for the III. German art exhibition in Dresden 1953 , Jonasverlag Marburg, 1992, ISBN 3-89445-128-9 Text: Werner Kleinerüschkamp
  • The beauty of women - photographic open-air studies , Connewitzer Verlagbuchhandlung 1996, ISBN 3-928833-43-X Essay: Karl Corino
  • The past has only just begun , Schadenverlag Köln, 2003, ISBN 3-932187-28-8 , texts: Enno Kaufhold, TO Immisch, Kerstin Stremmel

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1984: Staged photographs , youth club shop window in the Brecht-Haus, Berlin
  • 1988: Scenic Photographs , Art-School, Portland / Maine, USA
  • 1992: Flag roll call - scenic photography for the III. German art exhibition in Dresden 1953 , Bauhaus Dessau
  • 1994: Leupold's gazebo by enthusiasts in memory of a German family paper , Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle
  • 1995: Fahnenappell and Leupolds Gartenlaube , Photographic Resource Center at Boston University
  • 1995: Leupold's gazebo ... Philine-Vogeler-Haus, Worpswede
  • 1994: Flag roll call - scenic photography for the III. German art exhibition in Dresden 1953 , Military History Museum Dresden
  • 1996: The world of women - women as such have already proven themselves in photography , Berlin Festspielgalerie
  • 1996: The Beauty of Women, Photographic Open-Air Studies , Moritzburg State Gallery, Halle
  • 1997: The world of women - women as such have already proven themselves in photography , Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo, Rome
  • 2003-2004: The past has only just begun , Art and Media Center Berlin-Adlershof, Moritzburg Foundation - Art Museum of the State of Saxony-Anhalt , Iserlohn City Gallery, Ahlen Art Association, Old Fire Station Photo Gallery Mannheim (2004), Erfurt Art Hall (2004)
  • 2013: Scenic photographs , argus fotokunst, Berlin
  • 2018: Matthias Leupold, Scenic Photographs 1983–1995 , Photo Edition Berlin

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1987 Out of Eastern Europe: Private Photography , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge / Mass. and Rosa Esman Gallery, New York (K) Curator: John P. Jacob
  • 1987 Current photography in the GDR , Landesbildstelle Hamburg
  • 1992 Photography as Art - Art as Photography , Ten Years Photographic Collection 1979–1989, Berlinische Galerie , Photographic Collection
  • 1992 Nothing is as simple as it seems , East German Photography 1945–1989, Berlinische Galerie , Photographische Sammlung
  • 1993: The Last Decade , East German Photography of the Eighties, Municipal Gallery in the Canvas House, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1996/98 1st Ars Bartica Triennial of Photo Art The end of utopias, stations: Gottorf Castle , Schleswig; Haus am Waldsee , Berlin; Japanese Palace, Dresden; Museet for Fotokunst Brandts Klaedefabrik Odense; (DK) Kunsthalle / Taidehalli Helsinki; Maison du Denmark, Paris; Center of Contemporary Art, Warzcawa; Center of Contemporary Art, Tallinn; Galeria Miesska, Arsenal Poznań
  • 1997 Chimaera. Current photo art from Central Europe , Galerie Moritzburg Halle-Landeskunstmuseum Sachsen-Anhalt
  • 1998 Signatures of the Visible , A Century of Photography in Germany. Gallery at the fish market in Erfurt
  • 1999 From myth to fragment , nude photographs, Galerie Moritzburg Halle-Landeskunstmuseum Sachsen-Anhalt , photographic collection
  • 2003 Art in the GDR , a retrospective of the Nationalgalerie Neue Nationalgalerie , Berlin
  • 2004 Berlin – Moscow Moscow – Berlin , State Historical Museum Moscow
  • 1998: Recollecting a Culture , Photographic Resource Center at Boston University
  • 2009 Transitional Society , Portraits and Scenes 1980–1990 Akademie der Künste, Berlin
  • 2011 See Rome and Die ... Perspectives on the Eternal City 1500–2011, Kunsthalle Erfurt
  • 2012 Closed Society , Artistic Photography in the GDR 1949–1989, Berlinische Galerie
  • 2013 Die Grosse , art exhibition NRW Düsseldorf
  • 2015 Against the Grain , drawings, prints, photography and posters from the collection of the art museum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus
  • 2018 Blick | Wendungen , Brandenburg State Museum for Modern Art, Frankfurt / Oder
  • 2018 In another country , transformation processes based on examples of contemporary photography in Germany, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin, riesa efau, Kultur Forum Dresden, Kunsthalle Erfurt
  • 2018 No War No Vietnam , Galerie Nord, Berlin
  • 2018 The Inner Eye: Aspects of GDR Documentary Photography , Amber, Side Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
  • 2018 Staged - Provoked - Analyzed Three photographic positions of the former GDR: Kurt Buchwald, Manfred Paul, Matthias Leupold, Photo Edition Berlin
  • 2019 The others are us. Pictures of a dissonant society, Brandenburg State Museum for Modern Art, Dieselkraftwerk, Cottbus: u. a. with Anna and Bernhard Blume, Gerd Bonfert, Kurt Buchwald, Klaus Elle, Thomas Florschuetz, John Heartfield, Matthias Leupold, Ulrich Lindner, Evelyn Richter, Rudolf Schäfer, Michael Schmidt and the group Apparat
  • 2019 1000 realities - 100 years of GDL / DFA , House of Photography, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
  • 2019 utopias and works , riesa efau, Dresden
  • 2020 Staged and Documentary Photography, The Beauty of Women , with V. v. Keuren Galerie Bernd A. Lausberg, Photo +, Düsseldorf

Collections (selection)

Prices

  • 2008: Bronze Award Best Photographer of the Year, Lianzhou Photo Festival, China

Web links

credentials

  1. ^ Homepage Matthias Leupold
  2. ^ Artsy-a platform for art
  3. ^ Cecilia , catalog, with a novella by Marie-Luise Leupold. Ed .: Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo, Rome 1998.
  4. ^ Art in the GDR A retrospective of the National Gallery 2003
  5. ^ Berlin-Moscow / Moscow-Berlin
  6. ^ Academy of the Arts 2009: Transitional Society. Portraits and scenes 1980–1990
  7. ^ Berlinische Galerie 2012: Closed Society Artistic Photography in the GDR 1949–1989
  8. ↑ Alexia Amoriello, Lighter than Orange announcement , New York City Independent Film Festival website, 2015
  9. ↑ Homepage Leupold Film Production Berlin
  10. ↑ Andreas Krase: Flag roll call. Matthias Leupold's photographic productions for the III. German art exhibition 1953. In: new visual art, magazine for art and criticism. 1st year, issue 1, published by the new visual arts community. V. 1991, pp. 56-58.
  11. ^ Enno Kaufhold: Matthias Leupold - Fictional images as reality of a higher order. In: Photonews. No. 4, Hamburg 1994.
  12. ↑ Bernd Bösendorf, Gunther Dietrich: Interview with M. Leupold on the series: Fahnenappell , April 11, 2018
  13. ↑ Lighter than Orange , New York Premiere May 18, 2015, Maysles Documentary Center
  14. ↑ Project website Lighter than Orange
  15. ^ Deutsche Welle, July 8, 2015, Rodion Ebbinghausen The long shadow of the Vietnam War , The Documentary Lighter Than Orange
  16. ^ Deutsche Welle, November 26, 2015, Lighter than Orange - The legacy of dioxin in Vietnam
  17. ↑ Alexia Amoriello, New York City Independent Film Festival review , 2015
  18. ↑ Manon Priebe, Axel Wagner, War never stops , Chrismon January 23, 2014, pp. 30–34.
  19. ↑ Louis Proyect, review Lighter than Orange , Socially Relevant Film Festival, counterpunch, March 13, 2015
  20. ^ The Noise of Letea film website
  21. ↑ SRF, Sternstunde Kunst 11/17/2019 , Interview with Jérôme Depierre His euphoria for photography was contagious , On the making of the documentary The Photographer Hugo Jaeggi - In addition, the dream is often enough reality
  22. ↑ Film website The photographer Hugo Jaeggi – In addition, the dream is often enough reality , 2019
  23. ↑ The Song of the Valley film website , 2020
  24. ↑ Flag roll call - scenic photography for the III. German art exhibition in Dresden 1953 , Jonasverlag Marburg, 1992, ISBN 3-89445-128-9 Text: Werner Kleinerüschkamp
  25. ↑ Essay: Karl Corino: Matthias Leupold - Der Gestalter , Die Schönheit der Frauen - Photographische Freilichtstudien, Connewitzer Verlagbuchhandlung, 1995
  26. ↑ Werner Kleinerüschkamp: Atelierhaus Worpswede 1992, 1993, 1994. Scholarship holder catalog published by Martin Kausche, Atelierhaus Worpswede e. V., 1995, ISBN 3-89299-181-2 , pp. 114-118.
  27. ↑ Ulrich Eckhardt: Laudation for the opening of the exhibition The past has only just begun , Art and Media Center, Berlin-Adlershof 2003
  28. ^ Exhibition Matthias Leupold - scenic photographs , flag roll call to the beauty of women, website gallery argus fotokunst, Berlin 2013
  29. ↑ Photo Edition Berlin 2018: Matthias Leupold Scenic Photographs 1983–1995
  30. ↑ B. Bösendorf, documentation, speech: Ekke Maaß February 24, 2018
  31. ↑ Janos Frecot, Virginia Heckert: Photography as Art - Art as Photography. Ten years of the photographic collection 1979–1989, exhibition catalog Berlinische Galerie, Museum for Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, 1989, p. 198.
  32. ↑ Ulrich Domröse: Nothing is as simple as it seems. East German Photography 1945–1989, exhibition catalog Berlinische Galerie e. V., 1992, ISBN 3-927873-15-2 .
  33. ↑ Chimaera . Current photo art from Central Europe. ed. by TO Immisch, John P. Jacob, Connewitzer Verlagbuchhandlung, Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-928833-97-9 , pp. 33, 74-81.
  34. ^ Klaus Honnef, Kai-Uwe Schierz: Signatures of the visible. A century of photography in Germany, exhibition catalog Galerie am Fischmarkt Erfurt, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn a. a., 1998, ISBN 3-923755-56-2 , pp. 140, 141, 211.
  35. ↑ From myth to fragment , nude photographs, exhibition catalog Galerie Moritzburg Halle, Verlag Locher, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-930054-37-X , p. 19.
  36. ↑ Art in the GDR . A retrospective of the Nationalgalerie. ed. by Eugen Blume and Roland März .; Berlin: G + H Verlag 2003, ISBN 3-931768-73-2 .
  37. ^ Matthias Flügge, on the exhibition Art and Revolte '89: Transitional Society, Portraits and Scenes 1980–1990, Museum Journal, 2009
  38. ↑ Transitional society . Portraits and scenes 1980–1990. ed. Matthias Flügge, Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-88331-129-6 .
  39. ↑ Susanne Knorr, Ulrike Pennewitz and Kai Uwe Schierz: ROM see and die, Perspectives of the eternal city. From 1500 to 2011 , Kerber 2011, pp. 328–333.
  40. ^ Ulrich Domröse, Gabriele Muschter, TO Immisch, Uwe Warnke: Closed Society, Artistic Photography in the GDR 1949–1989 , exhibition catalog, Kerber 2012, ISBN 978-3-86678-688-2 .
  41. ^ Website Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus, 2018 Against the Grain , drawings, prints, photography and posters from the collection of the Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus
  42. ^ Website Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus, Blick | Wendungen , Brandenburg State Museum for Modern Art, Frankfurt / Oder 2018
  43. ^ Gabriele Muschter, Uwe Warnke: In Another Land, Transformation Processes Using Examples of Contemporary Photography in Germany. Exhibition catalog Haus am Kleistpark 2018, pp. 86–93.
  44. ↑ Photo Edition Berlin 2018: Staged - Provoked - Analyzed Three photographic positions of the former GDR: Kurt Buchwald, Manfred Paul, Matthias Leupold
  45. ↑ TO Immisch: Messer der Sehnsucht Rundbrief Fotografie NF 15 (1997), p. 3 (Vol. 4, No. 3)
personal data
SURNAME Leupold, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin