Peter Lindbergh

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Peter Lindbergh (2015)

Peter Lindbergh , real name Peter Brodbeck, (born November 23, 1944 in Lissa ; † September 3, 2019 in Paris ) was a German photographer and filmmaker . He lived in Paris, New York and Arles .

Life

Peter Lindbergh, born as a member of a “ ethnic German ” family in the western part of Poland ( Wartheland ) annexed by the German Reich at the time , spent his childhood and youth in Duisburg (North Rhine-Westphalia). His father was a sweets agent, his mother a housewife. Lindbergh grew up with two siblings. After graduating from elementary school, he worked as a window designer for the Karstadt and Horten department store chains . In his youth he played as a handball goalkeeper at TuS Rheinhausen , later OSC Rheinhausen.

At the age of 18 he went to Switzerland . Ten months later he moved from Lucerne to Berlin , where he took evening classes at the art academy. In the footsteps of his role model Vincent van Gogh , he hitchhiked to Arles. After several months in Arles, he traveled through Spain and Morocco for two years , then returned to Germany.

At the Werkkunstschule in Krefeld (today Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences ) he began studying painting with the hard-edge pioneer Günther C. Kirchberger , where he studied with the Krefeld visual artist Bernd Ewert . During his studies there was a first exhibition of his work in 1969 in the Denise René / Hans Mayer gallery . The concept art was his last phase of the visual arts . In 1971 he turned to photography and worked for two years as an assistant for the Düsseldorf photographer Hans Lux . During this time he took the stage name Lindbergh. He later justified the choice with the fact that there was already a photographer named Peter Brodbeck in Düsseldorf. The surname Lindbergh (known from the pilot Charles Lindbergh ) had an international aura for him.

Lindbergh was a second wife and father of four sons. He died at the age of 74 on September 3, 2019. Carla Bruni , Charlotte Rampling , Anna Wintour , Kate Moss , Naomi Campbell , Julianne Moore , Salma Hayek and Francois-Henri Pinault took part in the funeral service in the Church of St. Sulpice in Paris .

photography

In 1978 Peter Lindbergh moved to Paris, where he began his international career, first for Vogue magazine - first the Italian, then the English, French, German and American editions - and later for The New Yorker , Vanity Fair , Allure and Rolling Stone and others. His mostly black and white photographs speak a visual language and are inspired by early German films and the Berlin art scene of the 1920s.

In 1988 Anna Wintour came to American Vogue and won Peter Lindbergh for the magazine. He photographed the cover for Wintour's first and revolutionary issue of American Vogue in November 1988. Peter Lindbergh was the first photographer to bring Linda Evangelista , Naomi Campbell , Tatjana Patitz , Cindy Crawford and Christy Turlington together for a shoot, thereby establishing the supermodel phenomenon with his sensational cover picture of British Vogue in January 1990.

He made portraits of Catherine Deneuve , Mick Jagger , Keith Richards , Charlotte Rampling , Nastassja Kinski , Tina Turner , John Travolta , Madonna , Sharon Stone , John Malkovich , Jessica Chastain , Julianne Moore , Cate Blanchett , Kate Winslet , Jeanne Moreau and many others .

When Peter Lindbergh signed a contract with Liz Tilberis from Harper's Bazaar in 1992 , her publisher had to write a seven-digit check.

Exhibitions

Since Peter Lindbergh's photographs were shown at the Shots of Style exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 1985 , his pictures have been shown in numerous exhibitions around the world. Peter Lindbergh Smoking Women was first shown in 1992 at the Gilbert Brownstone gallery in Paris, then in 1994 at the Bunkamura Museum of Art Gallery in Tokyo and in 1996 at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt . In the same year, inspired by the success of the 1994 exhibition, the Bunkamura Museum of Art showed a large retrospective by Peter Lindbergh, which exceeded the previous visitor records of the retrospectives by Henri Lartigue and Leni Riefenstahl .

In 1997 the exhibition Peter Lindbergh: Images of Women was shown in the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin , which was then shown in 1998 in museums in Hamburg, Milan, Rome, Vienna and in 1999 and 2000 at the International Festival for Photography in Japan. Irina Alexandrovna Antonova brought Images of Women to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow in 2002 , making Peter Lindbergh the first photographer whose pictures were exhibited there.

In the early 1990s, Peter Lindbergh began telling stories with his photos. His iconic Martian shoot with Helena Christensen for Italian Vogue 1990 marks the beginning of narrative fashion photography.

In 2009 the Metropolitan Museum of Art showed a significant part of Peter Lindbergh's work in the exhibition Models As Muse . His exhibition On Street at C / O Berlin 2010 attracted 90,000 visitors.

The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, China, exhibited The Unknown in April and May 2011 . This gigantic installation, curated by Jerome Sans , attracted over 70,000 visitors.

From September 10, 2016 to February 12, 2017, Kunsthal Rotterdam presented the traveling exhibition A Different Vision on Fashion Photography, curated by Thierry-Maxime Loriot . After that she was from April 13th to August 27th 2017 under the title Peter Lindbergh. From Fashion to Reality can be seen in the Kunsthalle Munich . From February 3 to April 30, 2017, an exhibition together with recordings by Garry Winogrand under the title Women on Street was on view at the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf .

filmmakers

Peter Lindbergh has also made films. In 1991 his documentary Models - The Film was released , which he shot with the supermodels in New York . Inner Voices (1999), a 30-minute documentary film about modes of expression in Method Acting , won the Best Documentary Award at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2000 .

In 2001 Peter Lindbergh directed Pina Bausch - Der Fensterputzer , an experimental, half-hour film for Channel 4 about a play by his friend Pina Bausch .

His last film, Everywhere at Once , which he directed with Holly Fisher and which was shown as a subsidiary program in Cannes in 2007, had its world premiere at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival in New York. This film with Jeanne Moreau links filmed photographs by Peter Lindbergh - many of them previously unpublished - with clips from Tony Richardson's film Mademoiselle .

Influences

For Lindbergh, expressionist German film and German expressive dance of the 1920s were important aesthetic influences . His early black and white photos are also inspired by his childhood in the Ruhr area in the 1950s on the Rhine, opposite the Krupp steelworks in the industrial city of Duisburg .

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • 10 women . Foreword by Karl Lagerfeld . Schirmer-Mosel, 1996, ISBN 3-88814-791-3 , 120 pages
  • Stern Fotografie - Smoking Women , Spezial Fotografie - Portfolio N ° 5 (1996), 111 pages
  • Images of Women , Martin Harrison, Peter Lindbergh. Schirmer-Mosel, 1997, ISBN 978-3-82960-143-6 , 312 pages
  • Portfolio , interview Dr. Antonio Ria - Assouline (1997), ISBN 2-84323-108-6 , 307 pages
  • Stern Photography - Invasion , Special Photography - Portfolio N ° 29 (2002), 96 pages
  • Martin Harrison (Ed.): Images of Women. Translated by Walter Ahlers. Schirmer Mosel, Munich 2004/2007 , ISBN 3-88814-967-3 , 312 pages.
  • Stories by Wim Wenders , Arena Editions, 2006, ISBN 1-892041-64-2 , 360 pages
  • I Grandi Fotografi . Corriere della Sera , 2006, 24 pages
  • Untitled 116. Schirmer Mosel , Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-8296-0179-5 , 353 pages, mostly illustrations, with the translation supplements
  • Stern Photography - Peter Lindbergh , Special Photography - Portfolio N ° 47 (2007), 96 pages
  • Images of women - Peter Lindbergh. Accompanying volume for the exhibition "Peter Lindbergh - Images of Women - Invasion", April 19 to June 29, 2008, Mönchehaus Museum für Moderne Kunst Goslar. Text by Klaus Honnef, translated by John Brogden and Christine Becker. Snoeck, Cologne 2008, 95 p., Overw. Ill., 39 cm, ISBN 978-3-936859-89-8 .
  • Felix Hoffmann (Ed.): Peter Lindbergh - On Street. Accompanying volume for the exhibition "Peter Lindbergh - On Street", C / O Berlin - International Forum for Visual Dialogues, September 25, 2010 to January 9, 2011. Text by Klaus Honnef. Schirmer Mosel, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-8296-0506-9 , 215 pp., Overw. Ill., Color and duotone panels.
  • The Unknown, UCCA - Wonder is the beginning of wisdom , in an interview with Jérôme Sans. ISBN 978-3-8296-0544-1 .
  • Images of Women II. Photographs 2005–2014 . Schirmer Mosel, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-8296-0685-1 .
  • Peter Lindbergh, Thierry-Maxime Loriot (Ed.): Peter Lindbergh. A Different Vision on Fashion Photography . Taschen, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-8365-5282-0 .
  • Peter Lindbergh: Shadows on the Wall . Taschen, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-8365-6937-8 .

Films (excerpt)

Films about Lindbergh

  • Peter Lindbergh, un portrait. Documentary, France, 1997, 55:39 min., Director: Jean-Michel Vecchiet, production: Mona Lisa films.
  • Peter Lindbergh - My Life. Documentary, Germany, 2007, 43 min., Written and directed: Werner Raeune, production: arte , ZDF , first broadcast: January 6, 2008 on arte, summary by 3sat .
  • Poet des Glamor documentary film, Germany, 1993, 60 min., Production: ℗ & © 1993 Per Schnell Filmproduktion Cologne, WDR / 3Sat.

literature

  • Shut your mouth . In: Der Spiegel . No. 31 , 2010 ( online interview with Lindbergh).

Web links

Commons : Peter Lindbergh  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elizabeth Paton: Peter Lindbergh, Photographer Who Captured Rise of the Supermodel, Dies at 74. In: The New York Times , September 4, 2019 (English). Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  2. ^ Munzinger-Archiv GmbH, Ravensburg: Peter Lindbergh - Munzinger Biographie. Retrieved April 25, 2017 .
  3. ^ Rudolf Haupt: Interview with Peter Lindbergh , March 26, 2004.
  4. ↑ Schloss-Filseck-Stiftung of the Kreissparkasse Göppingen. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  5. ↑ My first pictures. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  6. ^ Peter Lindbergh: Invasion . In: stern.de . January 29, 2003 ( stern.de [accessed April 25, 2017]).
  7. ↑ Breaking news on tagesschau.de, accessed on September 4, 2019.
  8. ↑ "Supermodel" photographer Peter Lindbergh dies at the age of 74 (September 4, 2019)
  9. ↑ Hayley Richardson: Stars attend fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh's funeral in Paris. September 24, 2019, accessed April 13, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Cindy Crawford: The Inside Story: The Vogue Supermodel Cover . In: Vogue , Sept. 13, 2016.
  11. ↑ Dagmar von Taube: "The naked is also just a dress". In: Welt Online. Die Welt , March 24, 2003, accessed on November 26, 2019 : "After all," Harper's "pays a seven-figure sum a year"
  12. ↑ Pas de fumée sans femmes . (PDF; 284 kB) Nouvel Obs (French)
  13. ↑ Helena Christensen vs. Peter Lindbergh Models.com (English)
  14. ^ Fashion queens are at the MET . Nymuseums.com (English)
  15. ^ Exhibition: Peter Lindbergh's solo debut in China . In: China Daily (English)
  16. ^ Museum website: Peter Lindbergh: A Different Vision on Fashion Photography ( Memento from August 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 17, 2016.
  17. ↑ Hidden Objects of Feminism in FAZ from February 18, 2017, page 9.
  18. ↑ Martin Harrison: Biennale-2010: Peter Lindbergh . ARTinvestment.ru, March 19, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Lindbergh, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brodbeck, Peter (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Leszno
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 2019
Place of death Paris