Wolfgang G. Schröter

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Wolfgang Günther Schröter (born May 7, 1928 in Wolfen ; † March 28, 2012 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German photographer and university lecturer .

Life

Through the mediation of his father Alfred Schröter, who worked as a commercial clerk at AGFA Filmfabrik Wolfen, Wolfgang G. Schröter was employed as an auxiliary worker in the plant's testing department for black and white and color material from 1948 to 1949. After studying artistic color photography from 1949 to 1953 at the Institute for Color Photography at the Academy for Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig, he worked as a freelance photographer for the international magazine “German Democratic Republic under construction”. In addition to working for export press products from the GDR, he began his freelance work in 1956 as a photo reporter for the magazine " Freie Welt ".

In the same year, Schröter founded together with graduates and students of the University of Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig ( FO Bernstein , Barbara Haller, Kurt Hartmann, Evelyn Richter , Günter Rössler , Gerhard Heyde, Karl-Heinz Müller, Volkmar Jaeger , Rosel Jäger-Bock, Renate Rössing and Roger Rössing ) the artists' association action photography . Political and ideological reasons, such as the charge of formalism, led to the dissolution of the artists' association after the second exhibition in 1957.

From then on, Schröter concentrated on his professional career in the field of applied photography, advised on technological issues and took on internationally effective advertising contracts for VEB Carl Zeiss Jena and VEB Filmfabrik in Wolfen . He was able to pursue the exploration of the limits and possibilities of color photography and his interest in experimental photography all the more intensively in the official context of the commissioned work. In the course of the internationally run advertising campaign on the occasion of the Wolfener Filmfabrik's trademark change from AGFA to ORWO, he achieved a pioneering achievement in photography history. The stand design by ORWO at the Cologne trade fair Photokina 1968 presented Schröter's life-size polychrome body photograms , the world's earliest camera-less pseudo-solarizations in color. Schröter also conveyed his technical and practical experience in dealing with the color photographic process in numerous publications in the specialist press and in popular science channels. In 1966 his internationally acclaimed standard work on color photography "The Great Color Internship" was published.

In 1972, after twenty years of professional experience, he received a teaching position for applied color photography at the University of Graphic and Book Art in Leipzig , followed by teaching positions in the journalism section of Leipzig University .

In 1958 the Insel-Verlag Honoré Daumiers published The Parliament of the July Monarchy (IB 643) with Schröter's reproductive recordings. Until 1979 he was responsible for the images for over 10 illustrated books in the traditional Insel-Bücherei .

Until the 1990s, he accompanied the regional photographic research of Saxony and Thuringia with monographic contributions on photographers from the turn of the century. In 1989, the year of political change, Schröter curated the exhibition “150 Years of Photography”, which was presented in both Berlin and Paris. Following his interest in conveying artistic photography, he and Bertram Kober opened the “Punctum” photo agency in Leipzig in 1990. After taking over the management of the workshop for electronic media at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig in 1991, Schröter's appointment was followed by the establishment of a professorship for media art, which he held until his retirement in 1994.

Wolfgang G. Schröter devoted the years up to his death in 2012 to the processing of his approx. 50,000 recordings, which at the beginning of January 2014 came into the possession of the Deutsche Fotothek in the SLUB Dresden arrived.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

literature

  • TO Immisch (Hrsg.): Nude photography classic & experimental 1964–2013. Hall 2013, ill. P. 4, 5.
  • Christine Dorothea Hölzig: microcosm, macrocosm photographs. In: Leipziger Blätter. 61, 2012, pp. 61-64.
  • Obituary In: Photonews. Newspaper for photography. 24th vol., 5, 2012, p. 8.
  • Grit Wendelberger: Obituary for Wolfgang G. Schröter. In: Jena yearbook on technology and industrial history. Volume 15, 2012, pp. 33-34.
  • Thomas Liebscher (Ed.): Leipzig. Photography since 1839. Leipzig 2011, ill. Pp. 138, 177.
  • Manfred Steinbach (Hrsg.): Jena yearbook on technology and industrial history. Volume 12. Jena 2009, pp. 1–142.
  • Susanne Knorr (Ed.): The other Leipzig school. Photography in the GDR, teacher and student at the Leipzig School of Graphics and Book Art. Bielefeld 2009, illus. P. 64–71, p. 248.
  • Karl-Siegbert Rehberg, Hans Werner Schmidt (Eds.): 60 '40' 20: Art in Leipzig since 1949. Leipzig 2009, ills. Cat. 28, 64, 83 88, 89, 91–93, 101.
  • Photo press. Issue 11, 2008, p. 11.
  • Herwig Guratzsch, G. Ulrich Großmann (ed.): Lust and load. Leipzig art since 1945. Ostfildern-Ruit 1997, pp. 204, 346, 353, 364, 377, 381 f., Ill. Pp. 210, 211.
  • Volker Frank: Show your colors for the photo. For the 65th birthday of the Leipzig photographer and university professor Wolfgang G. Schröter. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung. May 7, 1993, p. 6.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang G. Schröter - biography . Artist data set from the Deutsche Fotothek. Retrieved September 3, 2014.
  2. ^ Jeannette Stoschek, Action photography 1956–1957 - A group of photographers in Leipzig, two exhibitions and their current presentation . Web link of the German Digital Library. Retrieved September 3, 2014.
  3. ↑ See Christine Dorothea Hölzig, WG Schröter: Mikrokosmos-, Makrokosmos-Photographs, In: Leipziger Blätter (61), 2012, p. 61 f.
personal data
SURNAME Schröter, Wolfgang G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schröter, Wolfgang Günter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfen
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 2012
Place of death Halle (Saale)