Rotraud Harling

Rotraud Harling (* 1941 in Stuttgart ) is a German photographer. She lives and works in Stuttgart.

Life

Rotraud Harling was born in Stuttgart in 1941. After training in photography in Reutlingen and Stuttgart and a five-year stay abroad in Brazil, she worked from 1971 to 1983 at the research center for medieval glass painting, which was founded in Stuttgart in 1970 and relocated to Freiburg im Breisgau in 1982 (office of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz) participates in the international Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA) project to research medieval stained glass. The 10th International Colloquium des Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi was organized by CVMA Germany in 1977 and photographed by Rotraud Harling. From 1983 to 1987 she worked at the Chair for Design and Construction at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Stuttgart and from 1987 to 1990 at the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Tübingen .

From 1990 to 2006 she was responsible for museum photography at the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart . The series of free works on “Giovanni Salucci's Classicist Buildings in Württemberg” was created between 1991 and 2001. It was reflected in the brochure “Schloß und Park Rosenstein” (1993), an image / text volume on the 150th anniversary of Giovanni’s death Salucci (1995) and the picture / text volume “Der Württemberg” (2001). The negatives and positives of Harlings' medium and large format photographs traditionally taken on film are stored and archived in the Stuttgart University Library.

In 1990 Rotraud Harling was appointed a member of the German Society for Photography (DGPh).

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The objects of Rotraud Harling's photographic work are nature, architecture, landscape and travel photography as well as classical archeology, glass painting and sculpture. Since 1971 she has been working as a photo laboratory assistant and scientific documentary photographer, from 1979 also as a freelance photographer in traditional black and white and color photography.

Much of her work has appeared in illustrated books or as contributions to other works. Some of her work has not yet been published, but has been shown in exhibitions.

Fonts

• Dietrich Mannsperger (editor); Ruth Balluff (photos); Rotraud Harling (photos): Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. Germany, volume 4: Coin collection of the University of Tübingen, Mysia - Ionia No. 2174 - 3306. Munich 1989.
• Rotraud Harling: Paul Baron des Granges. Materials on the biography of a forgotten photographer. In: Karin Schuller-Procopovici: Searching for the land of the Greeks with the soul. Photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries. Exhibition in the Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Cologne, October 5 to December 2, 1990. Cologne 1990, pages 31–37.
• Joachim Siener (text); Rotraud Harling (photos): Photographic documentation in archives and museums. Editor: Photography working group in the Museum of the Museum Association of Baden-Württemberg eV Stuttgart [1992].
• Rotraud Harling (photos); Manfred Warth (text): Rosenstein Castle and Park. The reliefs and sculptures at Rosenstein Castle and in Rosenstein Park in Stuttgart. By Rotraud Harling and Manfred Warth, Stuttgart. With 8 color pictures and 63 black-and-white illustrations. Stuttgart 1993.
• Rotraud Harling (photos); Helmut Gerber (text); Karin Moser von Filseck (text): A king and his master builder, Wilhelm I of Württemberg and Giovanni Salucci. An illustrated book. Published on the 150th anniversary of the death of Giovanni Salucci. Heimsheim 1995.
• Rotraud Harling (photos); State Museum for Natural History (publisher): State Museum for Natural History Stuttgart: Museum at the Löwentor. Rosenstein Castle Museum. Stuttgart [1995].
• Rotraud Harling (photos); Helmut Gerber (text): The Württemberg. The mountain - the land - the wine. Landscape and historical observation. Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2001.

Travel photography

Some of Harling's travel photography work has not been published, but some have been exhibited in exhibitions, see Exhibitions (selection) .

country	Photo series	year
France	"Paris". On the manuscript “Paris Rhapsody” by Gerhard Weber.	1993?
	"From Honfleur (Normandy) to Paris - AN 2000". A cruise on the Seine.	2000
	“With the houseboat on the Lot ”.	?
Italy	" Orvieto ". An Etruscan grave is discovered.	?
	"Venice". The water rises silently on San Marco Square .	2003?
Greece	"Classical landscapes and monuments from Greece". In the footsteps of a photographer around 1870 [Paul Baron des Granges (1825 to after 1887)].	1990?
United States	"New York". Four weeks after September 11, 2001 .	2001
Brazil	“Opposites - Architecture in São Paulo and Rainforest on the Amazon ”.	2011

Exhibitions

• 1979: "Glass painting threatened by the environment", Umweltgalerie Stuttgart.
• 1989: "Photographs of the 19th century from Greece", Reutlingen / Tübingen.
• 1993: “Paris Rhapsody”, Stuttgart University Library .
• 1995: “Giovanni Salucci's Buildings”, Rosenstein Castle , Stuttgart.
• 1998: "Comet Hale Bopp" for Himmelsbilder (?), Staatsgalerie Stuttgart .
• 2001: "New York lives on", Café Fossil, Stuttgart.
• 2003: “Venice”, Galerie im Lichtbild, Stuttgart-Rotenberg .
• 2004: “Grape harvest on Götzenberg”, Old Town Hall, Stuttgart- Uhlbach .
• 2006: "The Württemberg and the wine", Kelter Weingärtnergenossenschaft Rotenberg, Stuttgart-Rotenberg.
• 2006: "Rainbow with TV Tower", 50 years of the Stuttgart TV Tower .
• 2007: “City Portrait Stuttgart”, City Hall Stuttgart .
• 2011: “From the Neckar to the Amazon”, current work show and retrospective 1971–2006, Old Town Hall, Stuttgart- Uhlbach .
• 2013: “Giovanni Salucci in focus. Architectural photographs by Rotraud Harling ”, Stuttgart University Library.

Works in public collections

• "Heaven over Stuttgart", State Representation Baden-Württemberg , Berlin.
• "Vineyard landscapes" on the Neckar and Uhlbacher Götzenberg, Stuttgart City Hall .
• "Comet Hale Bopp 1997 over the grave chapel", graphic collection of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart .
• "Photographs on the urban landscape", Stuttgart City Archives .
• Photographic collection "Giovanni Salucci's classicist buildings in Württemberg" by Rotraud Harling in the Stuttgart University Library, z. Sometimes online in the library's digital collections .

Memberships

• Since 1990: German Society for Photography (DGPh).

literature

• Georg Leisten: The timelessly beautiful survives. Exhibition: The Stuttgart photographer Rotraud Harling pays homage to the work of the architect Giovanni Salucci. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung No. 289 of December 13, 2013, page 29.
• Bettina Michel: Architectural Photographers. Who photographs architecture in Germany , Stuttgart 2001, pages 58–59.

Web links

• Rotraud Harling's website .
• Literature by and about Rotraud Harling in the catalog of the German National Library .

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• Exhibition in the Stuttgart University Library 2013: “Giovanni Salucci in focus. Architectural photographs by Rotraud Harling ”, biography display board.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website of the Research Center for Medieval Glass Painting, Freiburg: [1] .
2. ↑ # Harling 1993 .
3. ↑ # Harling 1995 .
4. ↑ # Harling 2001 .