Vera Mercer

Vera Mercer (* 1936 in Berlin ) is a German photographer . She lives in Omaha , Nebraska and Paris .

biography

Vera Mercer was born in Berlin as the daughter of the set designer Franz Mertz . After training as a dancer, she married the Swiss artist Daniel Spoerri in 1958 and went to Paris with him . Here she became part of the Parisian avant-garde of the early 1960s, portraying Marcel Duchamp , Robert Filliou , Niki de Saint-Phalle and Jean Tinguely , among others . Regardless of her portraits, Mercer began to photograph the old Parisian market halls shortly before they were demolished, and for the first time addressed a subject for which she would later become known: food . Her elaborate staging of fruits, vegetables, meat and fish in opulent fruit, but also flower and animal still lifes, makes multiple references to art history . After the divorce from Spoerri, she started working for international magazines and shot reports a. a. about Samuel Beckett , Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol . She was also hired as a photographer by many artists, for example Eva Aeppli , Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint-Phalle.

Exhibitions (selection)

• Vera Mercer. Still life , Bavarian / culture in the Erholungshaus, Leverkusen
• Vera Mercer. Nature Morte , Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City , 2011
• Vera Mercer. Still life , Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern , Kaiserslautern , 2015/2016
• Vera Mercer and Daniel Spoerri. Dished up! , Künstlerhaus Marktoberdorf , Marktoberdorf , 16.2. until May 19, 2019

literature

• Vera Mercer: The Astrological Sculptures of Eva Aeppli. The Old Market Press. Omaha 1983.
• Matthias Harder (Ed.): Vera Mercer. Photographs and Still Lifes. Distance publisher. Berlin 2011. ISBN 978-3-86828-111-8
• Matthias Harder (Ed.): Vera Mercer. Particular portraits. Distance publisher. Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-95476-067-1
• Matthias Harder (Ed.): Vera Mercer: Life Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3-95476-113-5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vera Mercer on werkhallen.net
2. ↑ http://www.veramercer.com/about.html
3. ↑ http://www.muenchner-galerien.de/exhibition/vera-mercer
4. ↑ http://www.artfacts.net/de/kuenstler/vera-mercer-256072/profil.html/
5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated September 2, 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.