Werner Lieberknecht

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Werner Lieberknecht (* 1961 in Dresden ) is a German photographer .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1980, Lieberknecht did a two-year photography apprenticeship. From 1986 to 1988 he took a distance learning course in photography at the University of Graphic Art and Book Art in Leipzig . Evelyn Richter and Arno Fischer were among his teachers . He has been working as a freelancer since 1987 and in the same year documented the studio of the sculptor Hermann Glöckner, who died a few weeks earlier . In the following years he received several working grants from the Foundation for Cultural Exchange Netherlands-Germany until 1995 and a grant from the Foundation for Cultural Funds of the New Federal States in 1992 .

Lieberknecht has been represented in solo and group exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States since the mid-1980s. In 1997 he received a grant from the Free State of Saxony for the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf in Brandenburg . In the following year he worked on an exhibition in Dresden about the photography pioneer Hermann Krone . Since 1998 he has been a member of the German Society for Photography .

Works by Lieberknecht are not only in Saxon collections such as the Leipzig Picture Museum and the Dresden Kupferstichkabinett , but also among others. a. also in the National Gallery Berlin, the Museum Folkwang Essen, the Brandenburg Art Collections Cottbus or the State Gallery Moritzburg in Halle.

Exhibitions

  • 1988: Die Scheune Dresden, solo exhibition.
  • 1989: District art exhibition Dresden, group exhibition.
  • 1992: Studio Fine Arts Berlin, Baumschulenweg, solo exhibition.
  • 1996: Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau , Dresden, solo exhibition.
  • 1997: Regional Council Dresden, solo exhibition.
  • 1998: Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf, Wiepersdorf , Brandenburg, solo exhibition.
  • 2000: Georgia Museum of Art , Athens (Georgia) , USA, group exhibition.
  • 2001: Galerie Kunstraum Medingen, solo exhibition.
  • 2003: Atelier Starke Photographers, Dresden.
  • 2005: Leonhardi Museum , Dresden, solo exhibition.
  • 2011: Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig , group exhibition: Leipzig. Photography since 1839 .
  • 2012: Saxon State Parliament , Dresden, solo exhibition.
  • 2012: Neues Museum Weimar , Weimar, group exhibition: Farewell to Icarus .
  • 2015: Galerie Himmel, Dresden, solo exhibition.

Publications

  • Reiner Groß, photos Werner Lieberknecht: Dresden . Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-361-00468-3 .
  • Peter Herbstreuth, photos Werner Lieberknecht: Dresden private: The art of collecting . Cultural Office, State Capital Dresden 2002, ISBN 3-930382-70-9 .
  • Klaus Stiebert (Ed.), Photos Werner Lieberknecht: Magic Place: Dresden in Poetry . Book house Löschwitz, Dresden 2004, ISBN 3-89923-048-5 .
  • Bernd Heise (Ed.), Photos Werner Lieberknecht: Exhibition catalog (2 volumes), 1st volume: Photographs 1998-2004, 2nd volume. Hermann Glöckner's workshop , Leonhardi Museum, Dresden 2005.
  • Uwe Tellkamp , photos Werner Lieberknecht: The suspension railway: Dresden explorations . Insel-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-458-17489-9 .
  • Schwarzfahrten - Joy-Rides , text by Marcel Beyer: Ex-pose-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-925935-65-7 .
  • Hermann Glöckner: The Patriarch of Modernity. For the 125th birthday . Villa Grisebach Auctions, Berlin, Wolff Verlag, Schmalkalden 2015, ISBN 978-3-941461-18-5 .

Web links

Commons : Werner Lieberknecht  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Patriarch of Modernity in: Welt am Sonntag of October 12, 2014, p. 49.
personal data
SURNAME Lieberknecht, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden