Werner David Feist
Werner David Feist (born December 3, 1909 in Augsburg ; died March 8, 1998 in Côte-Saint-Luc ) was a German-Canadian photographer , painter and graphic designer .
Life
Feist studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau from 1927 to 1930 . In 2001 Feist's photographs were shown in an exhibition entitled Dancing on the Roof: Photography and the Bauhaus (1923–1929) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art . Feist lived in Prague for nine years , where he was friends with the former Bauhaus student Margarete Dambeck-Keller . Some of his works were shown in 2005 at the exhibition A Walk through Czech Photographic History in Prague. The Museum Folkwang in Essen and the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin have other works by Feist in their photographic collections.
Photographic work
Werner David Feist gained notoriety mainly through his experimental photographs from his time as a student at the Bauhaus Dessau (1927–1930). Most recently he was assistant to Walter Peterhans , who from 1929 set up the photography workshop at the Bauhaus Dessau. Feist's recordings are characterized by unusual perspectives, extreme projections and image details, as well as double exposures and light and mirror effects that reveal a new aesthetic perspective on objects and people.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1994: Armory Augsburg
- 1994: Bauhaus Dessau
- 1995: Bauhaus Archive, Berlin
- 2008: Consulate General Montréal, exhibition on the 10th anniversary of death
- 2012: Bauhaus Archive, Berlin
literature
- Franz-Xaver Schlegel: Werner David Feist. Photographs at the Bauhaus 1928–1930. Augsburg 1995. ISBN 3-00000176X
- Volkhard Knigge , Harry Stein (ed.): Franz Ehrlich . A Bauhaus member in the resistance and concentration camp. (Catalog for the exhibition of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation in cooperation with the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation in the Neues Museum Weimar from August 2, 2009 to October 11, 2009.) Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-935598- 15-6 , p. 146
Web links
- Literature by and about Werner David Feist in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bauhaus Archive, Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ metmuseum.org , accessed July 12, 2013
- ↑ Article about the exhibition at radio.cz/de , accessed on July 6, 2008
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Feist, Werner David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Canadian photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 1998 |
| Place of death | Cote-Saint-Luc |