Ralf Cohen

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Ralf Cohen (born November 14, 1949 in Solingen ) is a German artist.

Life

Ralf Cohen studied from 1971 to 1975 at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences , teaching art and photography with Arno Jansen and graduated with a diploma. He has lived and worked in Karlsruhe since 1980 .

His photographic works have been exhibited since 1983, including in solo exhibitions in the Munich City Museum , the Josef Albers Museum , Bottrop , the Wilhelm Hack Museum , Ludwigshafen am Rhein , the Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe , the Landesmuseum Mainz and the Museum of Contemporary Art - Collection Hurrle in Durbach . His work is represented in collections at home and abroad. He is a member of the Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg.

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Ralf Cohen works in the border area of ​​analog / experimental photography, sometimes in transition to painting. In his conceptual photo works he visualizes thinking about his perception. The images lead from reality to abstraction. The work enables the viewer to question his own perception and expectations and to gain a new view of the world.

The spectrum of his motifs includes landscapes, details of nature, architecture and portraits. Cohen focuses on analog photography, exposing, developing and fixing in his darkroom; What is photographed is radically changed through post-processing and experiments.

literature

Synthesis - Photo works 1972 to 2019, 2019, Städtische Galerie Fruchthalle (Rastatt) , Rastatt , ISBN 978-3-947563-34-0
WeltAnschauung, 2013, Städtische Galerie ada Meiningen , ISBN 978-3-934495-26-5
PHÄNOMENE, 2008 , Städtische Galerie Rastatt , ISBN 978-3-86833-009-0
PEOPLE IN CITIES, 1988, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum , Ludwigshafen am Rhein
Karlsruhe studios, 1987, Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ralf Cohen - German Photographic Academy. Retrieved May 21, 2020 .
  2. ↑ TEXTS - RALF COHEN. Retrieved May 21, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Stuttgart Germany: Art: Ruoff Foundation in Nürtingen shows Ralf Cohen: This is how Ralf Cohen changes photography. Retrieved May 21, 2020 .


personal data
SURNAME Cohen, Ralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Solingen