Roger Humbert

Roger Humbert (* 1929 in Basel ) is a Swiss artist and photographer .

Life

Roger Humbert attended the graphics class at the Basel School of Applied Arts from 1944 to 1946 . From 1947 to 1950 he did an apprenticeship in photography in Basel , from 1950 to 1952 he was an assistant at the photography school École des arts et métiers in Vevey, and from 1952 to 1953 he trained in color photography.

Roger Humbert, together with René Mächler, is one of the founders of Concrete Photography . The exhibition Concrete Photography in the Galerie actuell in Bern in 1967 is the first application of the term that gave its name to this art genre. In 1959 Roger Humbert made a trip to Japan , where he organized an exhibition with the Basel painter Alfred Pauletto .

He lives and works in Basel.

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Roger Humbert has been working on his abstract photographic works since 1954. His luminograms and photograms consist of form elements such as stencils, punch cards or punching waste, which are combined in a light source in such a way that they are reduced to their geometric structure. His work is heavily influenced by constructivism and existentialism .

His works are represented in numerous international museums, including the Peter C. Ruppert Collection and the Musée d'art et d'histoire in Geneva. Most of his oeuvre is part of the Swiss Photo Foundation .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 1958 Photograms , Bel Etage Gallery, Zurich.
• 1959 Kaku Gallery, Osaka, with Alfred Pauletto .
• 1961 Fotogramme / Stenogrammi della geometria elementare , Galleria Bruno Danese, Milano.
• 1961 Galleria al Ferro di Cavallo, Rome.
• 1978 Roger Humbert , Photo Art, Basel.
• 1998 In Focus gallery at the cathedral. Cologne.
• 2007 Concrete Photography , Armin Vogt Gallery, Basel.
• 2014 Concrete Photography , Swiss Photo Foundation in the Rappaz Museum, Basel.

Group exhibitions (selection)

• 1960 Non-representational photography , Gewerbemuseum, Basel.
• 1961 3rd Biennale de la Photographie, Paris.
• 1962 Hessen Huis, Antwerp.
• 1967 Concrete photography , Galerie actuell, Bern.
• 1968 Clarissa Gallery, Hanover.
• 1974 Photography in Switzerland from 1840 to the present day , Swiss Photo Foundation at the Kunsthaus Zürich , Zurich.
• 1988 Photograms by contemporary artists , Galerie Photo Art, Basel.
• 1990 presence in absenteeism. Photograms and the art of the 20th century , Swiss Photo Foundation , Zurich, catalog.
• 2000 Peter C. Ruppert Collection , Würzburg.
• 2014 Schwarz , BelleVue, Basel.
• 2014 Concrete and Generative Photography 1960–2014 Part I: The Pioneers. Photo Edition Berlin, catalog.
• 2015 photo and data image. Traces of Concrete Photography Museum in the Kulturspeicher Würzburg, catalog.

literature

• Claude Richard Stange: Alfred Pauletto - Roger Humbert. Painting and photograms , catalog for the exhibitions in Japan, 1959.

Web links

• Literature by and about Roger Humbert in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gunther Dietrich, Tomás Rodríguez (Ed.): Concrete Photography / Generative Photography / Part 1 / The Pioneers. Photo Edition Berlin, Berlin 2014, p. 18
2. ↑ Henrike Holsing, Gottfried Jäger (Ed.): Photo and data image / traces of concrete photography. Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2015, p. 186
3. ^ Article "Basler Künstler in Japan", Basler Nachrichten , No. 291 Abendblatt, July 14, 1959, page 4.
4. ↑ Claude Richard Stange. Alfred Pauletto - Roger Humbert. Painting and photograms , catalog for the exhibitions in Japan, 1959.
5. ↑ Gunther Dietrich, Tomás Rodríguez (Ed.): Concrete Photography / Generative Photography / Part 1 / The Pioneers. Photo Edition Berlin, Berlin 2014, p. 18
6. ↑ www.foto-ch.ch (accessed on July 15, 2015)
7. ↑ www.fotostiftung.ch ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 23, 2015)