Sigrid Neubert

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Sigrid Neubert (born September 4, 1927 in Tübingen ; † October 13, 2018 ) was a German photographer who became known primarily in the field of architectural photography .

Live and act

Camera by Sigrid Neubert (exhibition in the Lechner Museum )
Model of the BMW headquarters (exhibition in the Lechner Museum )

Neubert was the daughter of the doctor and later anatomy professor Kurt Neubert and completed her training at the Bavarian State Institute for Photography , which she completed in 1954 with the master's examination. After initial professional experience with photography for the ceramic industry and glass companies ( Rosenthal Porcelain, Gralglas Dürnau), she turned to architectural photography , with which she quickly achieved great success. For German architects such as Kurt Ackermann, Günter Behnisch , Betz Architekten , Alexander von Branca , Hans-Busso von Busse , Herbert Groethuysen , Hans Maurer , Paolo Nestler , Franz Riepl , Karl Schwanzer , Werner Wirsing and others. a. From 1955 it took on numerous important new buildings. Commissioned trips took her to Africa and South America.

In addition to architectural photography, she began working on freely chosen subjects in nature in 1968, to which she then exclusively devoted herself from 1990 to 2007. From 1953 on, Sigrid Neubert's recordings were published in architecture and other specialist magazines and were later shown in exhibitions at home and abroad. Her publications about the Nymphenburg Palace Park became known . In 1992 she was awarded the Schwabing Art Prize.

Sigrid Neubert last lived near Berlin. She died in October 2018 at the age of 91. She was able to witness the opening of the major retrospective on her work in the Berlin Museum of Photography a few months before her death.

Exhibitions in museums and institutions (selection)

  • 1953 "Postwar European Photography", Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York (group exhibition)
  • 1981 The New Collection Munich (nature photography)
  • 1989 "The Temples of Malta", Staatl. Antikensammlungen Munich
  • 1990 Engelhorn Reiss Museum Mannheim
  • 1991 Winckelmann House, Stendhal
  • 1992 The Temples of Malta, La Valletta, Malta
  • 1993 “Goethe Forest”, Amman Cultural Center, Jordan
  • 2002 Aalen Art Association
  • 2003 "Eight German Photographers", Tonji University Shanghai; "Four-cylinder" architecture gallery Munich
  • 2004 Galerie Aedes Berlin (architecture by Karl Schwanzer); Galerie D'Architecture, Paris (architecture by Karl Schwanzer);
  • 2008 "Demolished" architectural gallery Munich (group exhibition)
  • 2013 “A garden of nature”, Augustinum Kleinmachnow
  • 2014 architecture + nature. Photographs by Sigrid Neubert u. a., New Gallery Dachau
  • 2018 Sigrid Neubert Photography. Architecture and nature. Museum for Photography (SMB), Berlin

Gallery exhibitions

  • 2002 Barbara Gross Gallery, Munich
  • 2003 Galerie Göttlicher, Krems (architecture by Karl Schwanzer)
  • 2005 Galerie der Moderne / Stefan Vogdt, Munich
  • 2006/2007 Gallery Karin Schneider-Henn, Wasserburg a. Inn
  • 2008 “Nature builds pictures”, Christian Pixis Gallery, Munich
  • 2011/2012 “Built Pictures”, Christian Pixis Gallery, Munich

literature

  • Reuchlinhaus Pforzheim: for the opening on October 20, 1961. Recordings: Sigrid Neubert; Gerd Wipfler City Administration Pforzheim. Pforzheim 1961, DNB 740770594 .
  • Decision on the form. Monograph of a building Photography Sigrid Neubert et al. Texts by Peter M. Bode et al. Vienna / Munich 1973, OCLC 614436665 .
  • Sigrid Neubert: The park - the gardens at Nymphenburg. Text by Herbert Rosendorfer. Hamburg 1980, ISBN 3-8135-0442-5 .
  • Wend Fischer et al: The other tradition. Architecture in Munich from 1800 until today . (“Explorations” exhibition series by Bayerische Rückversicherung No. 3). 3rd expanded edition. Callwey, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-7667-0828-7 .
  • Christoph Hackelsberger. An architect sees Munich. Photos by Sigrid Neubert. Munich 1981, ISBN 3-88034-062-5 .
  • Sigrid Neubert: The temples of Malta. The mystery of megalithic structures. Text by Sibylle von Reden. Bergisch Gladbach 1988, ISBN 3-7857-0505-0 .
  • Sigrid Neubert: Gardens of Light. Considerations on Photography . Munich 1999, ISBN 3-927915-14-9 .
  • Leonie Manhardt-Zech (Ed.): Karl Schwanzer - Three buildings photographed by Sigrid Neubert . Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-211-23769-0 .
  • Sigrid Neubert: A garden of nature: Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell and the gardens at Nymphenburg . Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-8135-0355-5 .
  • Frank Seehausen: Sigrid Neubert - architectural photography of post-war modernism . Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-7774-3036-2 .

Web links

Commons : Sigrid Neubert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Architecture photographer Sigrid Neubert died , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on October 16, 2018
  2. ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Gothic Modernism
  3. ^ Winner of the Schwabinger Art Prize muenchen.de, accessed on February 19, 2014.
  4. ↑ Sabine Reithmaier: Take it easy in Süddeutsche Zeitung , NO. 274, November 28, 2018, R20
  5. ^ Sigrid Neubert - photographs. - Museum of Photography | ART at Berlin. In: ART at Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions | Galleries | Museums | Gallery guide | Art | Map. February 9, 2018, accessed on August 5, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Neubert, Sigrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 2018