Rolf Sachsse

Rolf Sachsse (2012)

Rolf Sachsse (born April 28, 1949 in Bonn ) is a German photographer , author and professor at the Saar College of Fine Arts .

Life

Sachsse was born in 1949 as the son of the photographers Gerhard (1920–1998) and Erika Sachsse (* 1929). From 1955 he attended the Martin Luther School in Bonn, from 1959 the Ernst Moritz Arndt Gymnasium. In 1967 he passed his Abitur and began an apprenticeship as a photographer with Karl Hugo Schmölz and Walde Huth in Cologne . In 1970 he passed the journeyman's examination and then worked as an assistant for Cologne photographers.

In 1971 he began studying newspaper studies , German language and literature and art history in Munich , and in the following year he switched to studying art history, communication science and German language and literature in Bonn. In addition, he worked as a freelance photographer and began an artistic activity. In 1979 he began working as a freelance artist, author and exhibition organizer.

In 1983 he received his doctorate with the subject "Photography as a medium of architectural interpretation" in art history with Eduard Trier in Bonn. In 1985 he was appointed professor for photography in the design department of the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences in Krefeld , and from 1993 also for electronic image media. In 1994/95 he took over the professorship for Hans Belting at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, where he has been an associate professor for theories of design ever since. In 2002 he took on a visiting professorship for theories of design at the Karlsruhe University of Design, and from 2004 to 2017 he was professor for design history and design theory at the HbK Saar. and there from 2013 to 2017 Vice Rector for Teaching and Science.

Sachsse is married and has one son. He lives in Saarbrücken and Bonn.

Awards

• 1993: Research grant from the Hasselblad Foundation
• 2000: Honorary diploma from the Academy of Arts in Uzbekistan

Publications (selection)

• Photography as a medium of architectural interpretation: studies on the history of German architectural photography in the 20th century . Saur, Munich, New York, Paris, 1984, ISBN 3-598-10564-9
• Education Pathways to Photography: A Study Guide . Mahnert-Lueg, Munich, 1981, ISBN 3-922170-22-6
• 19th century architectural photography in the Folkwang Museum's photographic collection . Nishen, Berlin, 1988, ISBN 3-88940-306-9
• Image and construction: on the use of technical media when designing architecture . Vieweg, Wiesbaden, Braunschweig, 1997, ISBN 3-528-06113-8
• Photography: from the technical image medium to the crisis of representation . Deubner, Cologne, 2003, ISBN 3-937111-04-2
• Photojournalism today: job, training, practice . List, Munich, 2003, ISBN 3-471-77269-3
• The Education to Look Away: Photography in the Nazi State . Philo Fine Arts, Dresden, 2003, ISBN 3-364-00390-4
• with Michael Ruetz : Fantasy and Dream: Heinz Hajek-Halke's late photographic work . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin, Munich, 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-06852-0
• Space images - image spaces: Photographing architects . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin, Munich, 2009, ISBN 978-3-422-06902-2
• Preserved archives and rescued stocks of photography from the Weimar period. An annotated and introduced, extremely provisional list , downloadable as a PDF document , specially prepared, but not published in: Diethart Kerbs , Walter Uka (ed.): Photography and picture journalism in the Weimar Republic. Results of a conference at the University of Lüneburg , Bönen: Druckverlag Kettler 2005, ISBN 3-937390-38-3

Papers (selection)

• 2002 Modern Media in Political Propaganda - Photography as Design in the Nazi State , Central Institute for Art History, Munich

• 2006 The grapes behind the curtain. From the Conception of Reality to the Original in Photography , Photomeetings Luxembourg

• 2012 "Steinert Becher Gursky. Three Positions on Architecture in Photographic Art" , cellar theater of Saarbrücken Castle

• 2016 Can you save the world with color photography? , International Conference Color as an Experiment

• 2018 When architects dream ... , Holbroich Island Foundation, Siza Pavilion, Auditorium

• 2020 Lucia Moholy's photographs of Bauhaus architecture. Iconic patterns of a brand , Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Web links

• Rolf Sachsse at the HbK Saar
• Website from Rolf Sachsse
• Literature by and about Rolf Sachsse in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Rolf Sachsse in the metacatalog of the Swiss university libraries and the Swiss national library Swissbib
• The ABC of free knowledge - R = reproduction. Interview with Prof. Dr. Rolf Sachsse
• Rolf Sachsse at perlentaucher.de
• Contributions by Rolf Sachsse in contemporary historical research
• "open house" in Marl, Dr. Rolf Sachsse, professor of design history and theory at HBKsaar
• 12 Rolf Sachsse
• Rolf Sachsse at the Center for Art and Media ZKM
• Rolf Sachsse at Visual History. Online reference work for historical image research
• Rolf Sachsse at Contemporary History Online
• Rolf Sachsse at Marlowes
• Rolf Sachsse at Ghent University
• Rolf Sachsse at the Central Institute for Art History
• Rolf Sachsse at Rundbrief Fotografie

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rolf Sachsse at the HfG Karlsruhe [1] , accessed on July 5, 2019.
2. ^ Nike Breyer: About the person: Rolf Sachsse. In: taz. On the weekend of June 14, 2003 The Education to Look Away [2] , accessed on July 5, 2019.
3. ↑ Paula Diehl : Review of: Sachsse, Rolf: The education to look away. Photography in the Nazi state. In: H-Soz-Kult, June 26, 2007 [3] , accessed on July 5, 2019.
4. ^ Rolf Sachsse Modern Media in Political Propaganda - Photography as Design in the Nazi State , lecture at the Central Institute for Art History in Munich, November 27, 2002 [4] , accessed on July 5, 2019.
5. ^ Rolf Sachsse The grapes behind the curtain. From the Conception of Reality to the Original in Photography , lecture at Photomeetings Luxembourg, 2006 [5] , accessed on July 5, 2019.
6. ↑ Rolf Sachsse "Steinert Becher Gursky. Three Positions on Architecture in Photographic Art", lecture in the Saarbrücker's cellar theater, June 28, 2012 [backPid = 8669 & tx_ttnews [calendarYear] = 2012 & tx_ttnews [calendarMonth] = 6 & cHash = db5cc2c8f5499e7009], accessed amf6fe647009a. July 2019.
7. ↑ Rolf Sachsse Can you save the world with color photography? Paper presented at the International Conference Color as an Experiment, December 6, 2016 [6] , accessed on July 5, 2019.
8. ↑ Rolf Sachsse When architects dream ... Holbroich Island Foundation, May 6, 2018, [7] , accessed on July 5, 2019.
9. ↑ Rolf Sachsse Lucia Moholy's photographs of Bauhaus architecture. Iconic patterns of a brand Museum Ludwig, Cologne, January 7, 2020, [8] , accessed on June 21, 2020.