Monika von Boch
Monika von Boch , actually Monika von Boch-Galhau (born March 31, 1915 in Mettlach ; † July 4, 1993 ibid) was a German artist.
Life
Monika von Boch was born in 1915 as the daughter of the factory owner Roger von Boch-Galhau (1873–1917) and his wife Maria Reichsfreiin von Fürstenberg (1880–1962). During the Second World War she trained as a nurse in Bad Kreuznach . She was also involved in the family business Villeroy & Boch : She took care of setting up a company nursery and from 1948 was responsible for setting up the company library and the company archive. Between 1950 and 1953 von Boch attended evening courses at the State School for Arts and Crafts in Saarbrücken , where she was a student of Otto Steinert . She also took part in the exhibition "subjective photography" organized by Otto Steinert at the State School for Arts and Crafts.
From 1952 she was a factory photographer at Villeroy & Boch in Mettlach. In October 1960 she became a member of the artist group Neue Gruppe Saar . In November of the same year Edward Steichen acquired two photographs by Monika von Boch for the Museum of Modern Art in New York City . In 1963 she left the group and from then on worked as a freelancer. In 1964 a first solo exhibition followed at the Austrian State Printing House in Vienna, and her works were also on view in the world exhibition of photography organized by Karl Pawek . In 1968 she became a member of the Deutscher Werkbund. From 1983 she mainly worked with ceramics.
Shortly before her death, she had one last exhibition in the Saarland Museum in Saarbrücken in 1992/93 .
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Monika von Boch's black and white photography is heavily inspired by her teacher Otto Steinert, the founder of “subjective photography”. Like her teacher, von Boch was also fascinated by a photograph whose concern is not to reproduce objective reality, but rather to interpret and interpret through one's own subjective images. She experimented intensively with subject and material and worked with complex picture compositions. So she dealt with the structures of different materials, sought to deal with light-dark relationships. In addition to Steinert, she was also influenced by the photographer Kilian Breier , with whom she worked as a factory photographer at Villeroy & Boch.
Honors
Since 2003 the Museum Schloss Fellenberg has awarded the “Monika von Boch Prize for Photography” every two years.
Exhibitions (selection)
Solo exhibitions
- 1964: Österreichische Staatsdruckerei , Vienna and Universalmuseum Joanneum , Graz
- 1966: Elitzer Gallery, Saarbrücken
- 1968: Clarissa Gallery, Hanover
- 1968: Trier City Museum
- 1969: Optical variants - Monika von Boch photographs , Modern Art Museum, Munich
- 1970: European Academy Otzenhausen
- 1973: Galerie St. Johann, Saarbrücken
- 1977: Schering Kunstverein, Berlin
- 1982: Monika von Boch. Stones , Photo Galerie 52, Luxembourg
- 1982/83: Monika von Boch. The photographic work 1950–1980 , Munich, Nancy, Saarbrücken, Mainz
- 1983: Textile Museum Neumünster
- 1983: Saarlouis Municipal Museum
- 1988: Photography and ceramics , Ceramics Museum Mettlach, Musée Régional Sarreguemines
- 1988: Monika von Boch - Rétrospective , Musée de la Photographie Charleroi
- 1992/93: Monika von Boch. Photography , Saarland Museum Saarbrücken
- 1997: Monika von Boch. The nature of the abstract , Saarlandmuseum Saarbrücken
- 2003: Monika von Boch , Museum Schloss Fellenberg , Merzig
- 2005: Change of subject "Monika von Boch's photographs from Algeria , Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, State Gallery
- 2006: 'Galerie St. Johann, Saarbrücken
- 2013: Monika von Boch. Photographs , St. Johann Gallery, Saarbrücken
Group exhibitions
- 1954: Salon of Photography, Stockholm
- 1954: subjective photography 2 , Saarbrücken
- 1954/55: Steinert and pupils , Buenos Aires, Stockholm, Barcelona, Brussels
- 1956: Creative photography - Otto Steinert and students , Darmstadt, Institute for New Technical Form
- 1957–1959: Steinert and Students - Photography as Image Creation , Darmstadt, Kiel, Tokyo, Karlstadt / Sweden, Göppinger Galerie Frankfurt, Folkwangschule, Essen
- 1960: Non-representational photography , Basel Trade Museum
- 1960: 3rd Biennale internazionale della fotografia "Fotografi della nuova Generazione", Pescara
- 1961: Salon International du Portrait Photographique, Bibliothèque nationale de France , Paris
- 1962: Nouvelles Voies de la photographie , Musée de l 'Etat Luxembourg
- 1964: World Exhibition of Photography, Helmhaus Zurich
- 1966: Neue gruppe saar , Galerie Moering Wiesbaden, Galerie Bernd Clasing Münster, Galerie Elitzer Saarbrücken, Haus Metternich Koblenz
- 1969: Painting / sculpture / graphics from Saarland , Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
- 1970: Photographers , Folkwang Museum , Essen
- 1973: Subjective photography - Monika von Boch . German Cultural Institute, Lyon
- 1975: Neue gruppe saar , Städtisches Museum Simeonstift , Trier
- 1976: Palatine Secession , Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
- 1977: Artistic Photography , Modern Gallery of the Saarland Museum Saarbrücken
- 1978: new group saar , Abbaye des Prémontrés, Pont à Mousson
- 1979: Artistic portrait photography , Saarland Museum Saarbrücken
- 1981: Steinert Collection, Folkwang Museum of Photography, Essen
- 1982: Art situation Saar , Sculpture Museum Glaskasten , Marl
- 1985/86: "The Tree", Saarbrücken City Gallery
- 1990/91: Otto Steinert and students , Museum Folkwang Essen
- 1996/97: Industry People Pictures , Saar History Museum , Saarbrücken
- 1998/99: Between Abstraction and Reality - Photography of the 1950s , Kunstverein Ludwigshafen
- 2002/03: Subjective Photography 1948–1959. Otto Steinert's pupil in Saarbrücken , Museum Haus Ludwig Saarlouis, Oberhausen
- 2003: Monika von Boch and her friends , Museum Schloß Fellenberg, Merzig
- 2003/04: new group saar , Museum Haus Ludwig , Saarlouis
- 2005: Change of subject: landscape photographs , Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, State Gallery
- 2005: Change of subject: photograms , Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, Landesgalerie
- 2006: Change of subject "Industrial Photography , Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, State Gallery
- 2006: Change of subject "Paris - Pictures of a City , Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, State Gallery
- 2006: Change of subject to "Portrait Photography , Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, State Gallery
- 2009: Banned Light - Photography in the Saarland Museum from 1844 to 1995 , Modern Gallery Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken
- 2012: Saarland Art of the 50s , Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken
- 2013: Saar Art 2013 ", State Art Exhibition , Museum St. Wendel
literature
- Literature on Monika von Boch in the Saarland Bibliography
- Monika von Boch - see the country . 1981, ISBN 3-921815-39-8
- Monika von Boch: the photographic work, 1950–1980: experimental photography, photograms, industry, abstractions, nature . Edited by JA Schmoll called Eisenwerth. Dillingen: Queisser, 1982, ISBN 3-921815-42-8 .
- Miriam Szwast: Monika von Boch: structure photography . Master's thesis . Saarbrücken 2004.
- Monika von Boch - Traces, Memories, Moments . Exhibition catalog. Merzig 2005, ISBN 3-938415-02-9 .
- Roland Augustin: Monika von Boch . Saarland Cultural Heritage Foundation, Saarbrücken 2015, ISBN 978-3-932036-71-2 .
Web links
- Institute for contemporary art in Saarland: Boch, Monika von. Artist and work. Retrieved December 21, 2018 .
- Monika von Boch at the Saarland Biographies
Individual evidence
- ^ A b curriculum vitae of Boch , Museum Schloss Fellenberg
- ↑ General artist lexicon . Volume XII, De Gruyter / Saur, 1996, p. 30.
- ^ Monika von Boch Prize for Photography , Museum Schloss Fellenberg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boch, Monika von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boch-Galhau, Monika von (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mettlach |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th July 1993 |
| Place of death | Mettlach |