Ute Eskildsen
Ute Eskildsen (born February 2, 1947 in Itzehoe ) is a German photographer , photo historian and curator . She was the deputy director of the Folkwang Museum in Essen and head of the photographic collection there until her retirement at the end of August 2012.
Live and act
After studying photography and the history of photography at the Folkwang School of Design in Essen, Eskildsen initially worked as a freelance photographer and as Otto Steinert's assistant . She did an internship at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester (New York), was a visiting curator at the Busch-Reisinger Museum in Cambridge and a visiting student at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. In 1973 she founded a photo gallery with students and organized numerous exhibitions of contemporary photography. In 1979 Eskildsen was commissioned to set up a photographic department as a curator at the Museum Folkwang. In 1991 she became the deputy director of the Museum Folkwang.
Exhibitions that she curated for the Folkwang Museum have themselves become part of the history of photography. With the exhibition Photographing Was Participating , she brought women photographers from the Weimar Republic back to mind for the first time, many of whom had to emigrate under National Socialism. Your Robert Frank retrospective in 2000 is considered "epochal" according to Die Zeit . With Man and his Objects , her last exhibition, she presented over 170 years of photography history.
From 2012 to 2015 Ute Eskildsen was visiting professor at the University of Wales, Newport, UK .
Exhibitions at the Folkwang Museum
- 2012 Man and his objects
- 2010 A Star is Born. Photography and rock since Elvis
- 2009 Paul Graham . Photographs 1981 to 2006
- 2008 Résonances I. Photographier après la guerre. France - Allemagne, 1945 - 1955, in cooperation with the Jeu de Paume, Paris
- 2008 Franked Fantastereien: the playfulness of photography in the medium of the postcard, in cooperation with the Fotomuseum Winterthur and the Jeu de Paume, Paris
- 2008 Street & Studio. An urban history of photography, in cooperation with Tate Modern, London
- 2005 Useful, cute and museum-like. The photographed animal
- 2004 Roni Horn
- 2002 Thomas Schütte . Great spirits - steel women
- 2001 Still-Lifes - Irving Penn
- 2000 Robert Frank . Hold Still Keep Going, in cooperation with the Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid
- 1999 Sarah Jones. Color photographs
- 1998 Rineke Dijkstra . Images of man
- 1997 Maria Nordman . Some early works - Continuous reference fields
- 1996 Laszlo Moholy-Nagy . Photograms 1922 - 1943, in cooperation with the Center Pompidou, Paris
- In 1994 taking photos meant taking part. Photographers of the Weimar Republic
- 1991 Collecting - The collector's photographs from private ownership
- 1989 Advertising photography in Germany since the 1920s
- 1988 Carole Conde, Karl Beveridge, Robert Del Tredici. Photography and Politics
- 1987 Gerald van der Kaap and Thomas Florschuetz
- 1979 film and photo from the 1920s. A consideration of the International Werkbund Exhibition, Film and Photo, 1929
- 1986 remains of the authentic. German photo images from the 1980s
- 1983 Helmar Lerski . Photographers
- 1981 How do you live in the Ruhr area. Residents took pictures - pictures of amateurs and professionals
- 1980 Rejection of the single picture. Experience with image sequences in photography in the 1970s
Prizes and awards
- 1989 Josef Sudek Medal, Prague
- 1991 Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
- In 2000, the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia awarded her the title of professor
- 2009 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Publications
- Film and photo of the twenties: a consideration of the international Werkbund exhibition “Film and Photo” 1929 . Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-7757-0141-9 .
- How do you live in the Ruhr area. Residents took pictures - pictures of amateurs and professionals . Museum Folkwang, Essen 1981, DNB 105938003X .
- Taking photos meant taking part . Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 978-3-928762-26-7 .
- Robert Frank: Hold still, keep going . Essen 2000, ISBN 978-3-86930-904-0 .
- A picture book. The photographic collection in the Folkwang Museum . Göttingen 2003, ISBN 978-3-88243-881-9 .
- Useful, cute and museum-like. The photographed animal. Göttingen 2005, ISBN 978-3-86521-237-5 .
- Street & Studio. An Urban History of Photography . Essen 2008, ISBN 978-1-85437-778-4 .
- Teaching Photography . Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-933249-29-6 .
- A medium in transition: producing and collecting photography . Berlin / Heidelberg, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86828-357-0 .
Between 2006 and 2011 Ute Eskildsen also edited a series for Steidl Verlag Göttingen with the titles:
- Michael Schmidt: Berlin after 1945 . Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-86521-090-2 .
- Chris Killip - Pirelli Work . Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-86521-317-0 .
- Bernhard Prinz: Latifundia . Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86521-487-4 .
- Valérie Jouve: Resonances . Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86521-625-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Ute Eskildsen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Special exhibitions (selection) curated by Ute Eskilden for the Folkwang Museum from 1979-2012. Website of the Academy of the Arts (Berlin)
- Ute Eskildsen, Shpilman Institute for Photography (Tel Aviv)
Individual evidence
- ^ Jewish Women's Archive. "Ute Eskildsen." (Viewed on October 12, 2015)
- ↑ Goethe-Institut , accessed on October 12, 2015
- ↑ Stefan Koldehoff: With great love for objectivity . In: DIE ZEIT, April 12, 2012 No. 16 .
- ^ Exhibition archive Museum Folkwang. In: Museum Folkwang. Retrieved August 21, 2018 .
- ^ Academy of Arts
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eskildsen, Ute |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photography historian and curator, Museum Folkwang |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Itzehoe |