Peter Dressler

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Peter Dressler (born September 17, 1942 in Brașov , Romania ; † September 15, 2013 in Prague ) was an Austrian photographer specializing in artistic photography .

Life

Peter Dressler was born in Brașov (German: Kronstadt) in Romania in 1942. The first photographic works were created in the 1960s. He completed his painting studies from 1966 to 1971 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Gustav Hessing with a diploma. He then taught there from 1972 to 2008, initially as a lecturer with Gustav Hessing, then as an assistant to Friedensreich Hundertwasser and Hubert Schmalix and finally as an assistant professor of painting.

Dressler created “photo stories” with a metaphorical visual language through staged photography. Public spaces that he found by chance and everyday situations served him as scenes in which he made temporary interventions for his photographs. - His artist book Zwischenpiel contains photographs of his urban explorations in Vienna in the early 1970s, but it was only published in 1989. Between 1975 and 1978 Peter Dressler and Franz Zadrazil made the black and white film Sonderfahrt ; an audiovisual mosaic was created as a mixture of associatively found and played.

Dressler was buried at the Mauer cemetery (group 41, row 1, number 1) in Vienna. The artistic estate is in the Fotohof archive .

In 2016, the Kunst Haus Wien is showing the first posthumous retrospective by Peter Dressler.

Awards

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1983: Peter Dressler , Forum Stadtpark, Graz
  • 1986: With great interest , Galerie Johannes Faber, Vienna
  • 1989: Interlude , Galerie Fotohof , Salzburg
  • 1990: With Great Interest , Westpac Gallery, Melbourne
  • 2002: Tie Break , Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg
  • 2003: In the immediate vicinity , Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
  • 2006: Tangible Beauty , Camera Austria at the Kunsthaus Graz
  • 2010: Voltage interruption , KÖR shop window at the Kunsthalle Wien public space karlsplatz
  • 2013: Eboran Gallery, Salzburg
  • 2016: Retrospective at Kunst Haus Wien

Publications

  • 2016: Vienna Gold . FOTOHOF edition . with texts by Christine Frisinghelli, Rainer Iglar, Bettina Leidl, Michael Mauracher. German English. 30 × 24 cm, 160 pages, approx. 170 illustrations. edition: 1000. ISBN 978-3-902993-41-0 .
  • 2004: Rather rare recipes, Rarités Culinaires, Rather Rare Recipes . FOTOHOF edition . 24 × 16 cm. 8 pages. 16 color illustrations, laminated on cardboard, cardboard tape, edition: 400. ISBN 978-3-901756-36-8 .
  • 2002: Business Class . FOTOHOF edition . 24 × 16 cm. 20 pages. 29 color illustrations, laminated on cardboard, cardboard tape, edition: 400. ISBN 978-3-901756-27-6 .
  • 2002: Tangible Beauty / Beauté Tangible . FOTOHOF edition . 24 × 16 cm. 24 pages. 13 color illustrations, laminated on cardboard, cardboard tape, edition: 400. ISBN 978-3-901756-25-2 .
  • 2002: Tie Break . FOTOHOF edition . 24 × 16 cm. 22 pages. 14 color illustrations, laminated on cardboard, cardboard tape, edition: 400. ISBN 978-3-901756-26-9 .
  • 2002: Lasting Values ​​/ Valeurs Sures . FOTOHOF edition . 24 × 16 cm. 20 pages. 12 color illustrations, laminated on cardboard, cardboard tape, edition: 400. ISBN 978-3-901756-24-5 .
  • 1989: interlude . Karolinger Verlag. with an introduction by Otto Breicha . 98 pages. 90 plates. ISBN 978-3854180395 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Photographer Peter Dressler has died. In: derStandard.at. September 17, 2013, accessed March 5, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Galerie Fotohof: Dirk Braeckman / Peter Dressler / On Screen
  3. ↑ Special trip at filmmuseum.at
  4. ↑ http://www.kunsthauswien.com/de/ausstellungen/vorschau
  5. ↑ Galerie Fotohof: Peter Dressler - interlude
  6. ↑ Peter Dressler: Tangible Beauty
  7. ↑ Power interruption . KÖR Art in Public Space Vienna, 2011, accessed on March 5, 2017 .
  8. ↑ exhibition gallery Eboran 2013
personal data
SURNAME Dressler, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian photo artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Brașov
DATE OF DEATH 15th September 2013
Place of death Prague