Monica von Rosen Nestler
Monica von Rosen Nestler (born August 1, 1943 in Munich ) is a Swedish-Swiss artist , photographer and author .
Life
She grew up in Grainau near Garmisch-Partenkirchen with her mother Birgitta Wolf and attended the Lyceum in Garmisch. In 1964 she married the Swiss architect Peter Baumann in Stockholm and moved to Lucerne. Her two daughters were born in 1966 and 1967. Monica von Rosen Nestler lives and works in Berlin and Sörmland (Sweden).
After her divorce, she and Hans A. Pestalozzi developed the center for citizens' initiatives at the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute and opened it in 1977 in Le Corbusier's Heidi Weber house in Zurich . From 1980 she worked as an architecture and reportage photographer for several Swiss newspapers and showed her first pictorial photographic works in art galleries. Fascinated by serial and sequence photography, Monica von Rosen took training courses with the American photographers Duane Michals and Nathan Lyons . Later, in addition to her photographic work, she also became a gallery owner , including in Stockholm, was a journalist and book author, and taught at art schools and in workshops.
Monica von Rosen became internationally known in the eighties for her Polaroid pictures. On her travels to all continents since 1980 she has photographed different forms of water and reproduced these often very abstract pictures in large format on paper or linen. Even as a young girl, she was particularly fascinated by the lake Båven in Sörmland, Sweden . Her poetic pictures of this lake, created since 2005, are an expression of silence and concentration in nature and personal self-forgetfulness. "The pictures are an homage to transience, to mindfulness, to beauty, to transcendence," writes Tatjana Myoko von Prittwitz and Gaffron in the book Unsui - Wolken und Wasser, published in 2007 . The series Come a Little Closer from 2010 not only shows the beauty of the lake, but also refers to the fleeting, the vulnerable, to loneliness and liberating lightness. In these works, the artist combines the precise representation of an intrinsically banal object with a color composition in which the motif merges into what appears to be non-representational. The abstraction of the lake water and the concentration on the smallest details illustrate the tension between her artistic position. Monica von Rosen's works are shown in museums, galleries and at art fairs. She published her photographic work in several monographic books and art catalogs.
Works
Art books
- Unsui. Clouds and water. Edition Scala, 2007, ISBN 978-3-033-01525-8 . (Texts: Tatjana M. von Prittwitz and Gaffron and Marion Strunck)
- In the beginning there was the look. Edition Scala, 2003, ISBN 3-03300101-7 . (Texts: Elke Seibert, art historian and curator; Barbara Hofmann, journalist and Christina von Braun )
- Crisis. Edition Scala, 1996, ISBN 3-9520911-0-3 . (Text: HW. Schaffnit)
- Monagraphy. Edition Scala, 1994, ISBN 88-85118-35-6 .
- Grand Hotel Brissago. Edition Scala, 1990 and 2nd edition 1992, ISBN 88-85118-36-4 .
- Det vita corset. Louise Adelborg, Edition Scala, Stockholm 1997, ISBN 91-973044-0-9 .
Art collection catalogs
- The Polaroid project THE CONQUEST OF ART, Hirmer Verlag 2017, ISBN 978-3-7774-2873-4
- .THE POLAROID PROJECT, At the Intersection of Art and Technology Authors u. a. William A. Ewing and Barbara Hitchcock, Tames & Hudson 2017, ISBN 978-0-500-54473-0
- KunstBoulevard, painting and photography, publisher: Steglitz-Zehlendorf district office of Berlin, 2016
- On passing away, reflections on temporality. Publisher of the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district office of Berlin. 2015.
- Reinvention of photography. Editors Bettina Gockel & Hans Danuser. De Gruyter Verlag, Berlin 2014.
- Aktionale II, Association of Berlin Artists, Exhibition Catalog Berlin 2014
- Women in Art - Masterpicies of visual Art, The Great Female Artistis from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era - 512 Artists. Edition Fuchs, 2013, ISBN 978-3-9503574-1-7 .
- From Polaroid to Impossible / Masterpicies of Instant Photography. The Westlichtcollection, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2011, ISBN 3-7757-3221-7 .
- Art Fair Copenhagen 2011, text by Hans Henrik Rassmussen: The soul of water
- A collector and his oeuvre, Willem Peppler. Triangle, 2008, ISBN 978-91-633-1366-0 . (SE, texts: Olle Granath, Sean Kelly, Willem Peppler)
- The Polaroid Book. Edition Taschen, 2005, ISBN 3-8228-3072-0 . (Text Barbara Hitchcock)
- Polaroid Selection. I, Photographieverlag, 1982, ISBN 3-7231-2200-0 . (Texts: Eelco Wolf and Fritz Gruber)
- Swiss photography from 1840 to today. Swiss Foundation for Photography. Benteli Verlag, 1992.
- Moments of being. Six Swiss photographers: Simone Kuhn Kappeler, Donna de Carli, Monica von Rosen Nestler, Cecile Wick, Muriel Olesen, Tiziana de Sivestro Hirschi. Edition Scala, 1992. (Text: Incognito Ergo Sum, Christina von Braun)
- Aspects of Swiss Art 1880–1980. Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich 1987. (Text: Jörg Huber )
- La Collezione di Fotografia Svizzera della Banca Gottardo. 1995. (Text: Guido Magnaguagno)
- Collection Galleria Gottardo 1989–1999. Fondazione per la cultura della Banca Gottardo.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rosen Nestler, Monica von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish-Swiss artist, photographer and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 1, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |