Monika Baumgartl
Monika Baumgartl (* 1942 in Prague , Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ) is a German photographer , performance artist and representative of concrete photography .
life and work
Four quarters of an hour in two hours, moon with Jupiter by Monika Baumgartl (1976) from the holdings of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Link to the picture
Monika Baumgartl trained as a photographer in Hofheim am Taunus from 1966 to 1968 . She then moved to Düsseldorf, where she worked as an actress (including a member of Die Bühne ) and was assistant to the German filmmaker and video gallery owner Gerry Schum . She has been working as a photo artist since 1970. From 1970 to 1976 she organized performances and joint exhibitions with Klaus Rinke .
Monika Baumgartl had her first solo exhibition in 1974. Her photographs are almost exclusively night shots. She took part in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the Individual Mythologies : Self-Presentation - Performances - Activities - Changes department and was also represented as an artist at Documenta 6 in 1977. Since the 1980s she has been working as an instructor for tap dance and taiko drums.
She lives and works in Düsseldorf .
Literature and Sources
- Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
- documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X
- Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 1: Painting, sculpture / environment, performance; Volume 2: photography, film, video; Volume 3: Hand drawings, utopian design, books; Kassel 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X
- Renate Buschmann, Stephan von Wiese (eds.): Write photos of art history , DuMont, Cologne 2007 (exhibition catalog for the exhibition Write photos of art history , December 8, 2007 to March 2, 2008, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf); ISBN 978-3-8321-9058-3
Web links
- Examples of their works
- Literature by and about Monika Baumgartl in the catalog of the German National Library
- Materials by and about Monika Baumgartl in the documenta archive
- Website of Monika Baumgartl
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Baumgartl, Monika |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German performance artist and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague , Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia |