Thomas Struth

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Thomas Struth, 2016

Thomas Struth (* 1954 in Geldern , Niederrhein ) is a German photographer from the Düsseldorf Photo School .

Life

Struth, born in 1954 in Geldern, studied from 1973 to 1980 at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf - first painting with Gerhard Richter and Peter Kleeman, from 1976 photography with Bernd Becher . In 1978 he received a scholarship from the Düsseldorf Art Academy for the city of New York City , which he concluded with a solo exhibition at PS1 . From 1993 to 1996 Struth held a professorship at the State University for Design (HfG) in Karlsruhe. Struth lives and works in Berlin . He is married to the American author Tara Bray Smith.

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Characteristic of Struth's artistic practice is the work on successive groups of works that deal with topics such as streets, people, museums and nature. Nevertheless, it remains evident that he is consistently and conceptually dedicated to the continuation of an overarching work idea. Struth mostly takes photos with a large format camera and in color, although in contrast to Andreas Gursky or Thomas Ruff, for example, he hardly processes his pictures digitally.

Thomas Struth established himself in art criticism as well as on the art market with the work groups Unconscious Places and Portraits conceived in the 1970s and 1980s . Participation in the Venice Biennale (1990) and Documenta IX (1992) strengthened his position internationally.

At the center of Struth's interest is “precise vision” and in particular the relationship between the viewer and the viewed. In his groups of works, Struth regularly questions ways of looking at traditional photographic subjects, undermines viewing habits and in this way expands the concept of photographic art.

Thomas Struth's architectural photos show squares and streets that sensitively document urban development. The group of works Unconscious Places , which was created in cities all over the world, forms an independent contribution to urban anthropology. The artist worked in a similar way in the series of landscapes : the absence of people indicates their presence and the design of the rural environment. Struth's other projects also have a quasi-documentary character, such as B. the portraits , in which the possibilities of representing an individual or a community are examined. In the cycle of museum images, the process of viewing becomes a vehicle that transports the viewer to different time-spaces - other museums, fictional worlds. In 2007 Struth was the first contemporary artist to exhibit at the Museo del Prado in Madrid. Struth photographed museum visitors in the Prado for this exhibition.

Since 2008, the photographer has been grappling with the structurally fundamental issues of humanity such as industry, research, energy and globalization. His images show ultra-modern facilities such as nuclear fusion reactors or space shuttles, which are usually not accessible to the public. In 2011, Struth was commissioned to take the official anniversary photo of the British royal couple. In 2013 Thomas Struth showed his group of works Paradise in the Fundación Helge Achenbach , MIAC-Castillo de San José in Arrecife, Lanzarote.

Awards

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions (selection)

Catalogs (selection)

  • Thomas Struth. Composition '19. Schirmer / Mosel, Munich, 2019, ISBN 9783829608749 .
  • Thomas Struth. Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-8296-0798-8 , ISBN 978-3-8296-0810-7 .
  • Thomas Struth. New Pictures from Paradise, Schirmer / Mosel , Munich 2017, ISBN 9783829607599 .
  • Thomas Struth. Nature & Politics, MACK, London 2016, ISBN 9781910164471 , ISBN 9781910164532 .
  • Thomas Struth. MACK, London 2014, ISBN 978-1910164129 .
  • Thomas Struth. Walking, Ivorypress, Madrid 2013, ISBN 978-84-941462-2-0 .
  • Thomas Struth. Unconscious Places, Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-8296-0617-2
  • Thomas Struth. Photographs 1978–2010, Düsseldorf, 2010.
  • Thomas Struth. ed. by Hans Rudolf Reust and James Lingwood. [Hans Belting…], Schirmer Mosel, Munich 2009.
  • Thomas Struth. City and street scenes. Architecture and public space in contemporary art photography, Marburg 2008.
  • Thomas Struth. Making Time, Madrid 2007.
  • Photographs 1977–2002, Munich 2002.
  • Thomas Struth. New Pictures from Paradise, Munich 2002.
  • Insights. The 20th century in the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Düsseldorf, Ostfildern-Ruit 2000.
  • Thomas Struth. Still, Munich 1998.
  • Thomas Struth. Portraits, Munich 1997.
  • Thomas Struth. Streets. Photography 1976 to 1995, Cologne 1995.
  • Thomas Struth. Museum photographs, Munich 1993.
  • Thomas Struth. Unconscious Places, Bern 1987.

Literature (selection)

  • Dirk Baecker: Photographed complexity or technology doesn't keep it on its side . In Nature & Politics , MACK, London 2016
  • Thomas Struth: Unconscious Places , with an essay by Richard Sennett ; in English. Schirmer Mosel, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-8296-0618-9 .
  • Annette Emde: Thomas Struth - city and street images. Architecture and public space in contemporary art photography , Marburg, Jonas Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-8944-5403-6 .
  • Hans Rudolf Reust, James Lingwood (ed.): Texts on the work of Thomas Struth , Munich (Schirmer / Mosel) 2009, ISBN 978-3-8296-0386-7 .
  • Steffen Siegel: On the way to the masterpiece. Thomas Struth's photographic museology. In: Stefan Börnchen, Georg Mein (Hrsg.): Secular pilgrimages. On the trail of the real , Wilhelm Fink, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7705-4898-9 , pp. 203-220.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tara Smith, Thomas Struth . In: The New York Times . April 8, 2007, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed March 31, 2020]).
  2. ^ Centenary Medal. Retrieved March 2, 2020 (UK English).
  3. ^ Honorary Members: Thomas Struth. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 24, 2019 .
  4. ^ Adrian Welch: RIBA Honorary Fellowships 2018: Winners. September 22, 2017, accessed March 3, 2020 (UK English).
  5. ↑ Scholarship holders details - VATMH (de). Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Kulturkreis.eu: Well-known ars viva award winners / 1987 Thomas Struth ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 August 13, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kulturkreis.eu
  7. ^ Thomas Struth | Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa. Retrieved March 2, 2020 (Spanish).
  8. ↑ Exhibition: THOMAS STRUTH. Retrieved March 2, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Thomas Struth at Fondazione MAST. Retrieved March 2, 2020 (Italian).
  10. ^ Thomas Struth: Nature & Politics. Retrieved March 2, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Thomas Struth. May 4, 2017, accessed March 2, 2020 .
  12. ↑ As sovereign, the image space rules in FAZ of August 2, 2017, page 12
  13. ^ High Museum of Art Presents New Work by Photographer Thomas Struth. Retrieved March 2, 2020 (American English).
  14. ↑ Martin Gropius Bau Archived copy ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlinerfestspiele.de
  15. ↑ museum-folkwang.de
  16. ↑ Don't you hear the hum of the future? in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on February 28, 2016, page 44
  17. ↑ badische-zeitung.de , April 15, 2016, Jürgen Reuß: The idea behind the balloons (May 13, 2016)
  18. ^ Marian Goodman Gallery New York Exhibitions , accessed January 12, 2014
  19. ↑ Photographs become images. Retrieved March 2, 2020 .
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SURNAME Struth, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
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