Yehuda Altmann

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Yehuda Altmann (left) in conversation with the consulting historian while preparing his project Ten Houses , 1999

Yehuda Altmann (* 1964 in Lachisch , Israel as Judah Ein-Mor ) is an Israeli photographer .

biography

Altmann studied photography at the Hadassa Academy in Jerusalem from 1986 to 1988 . From 1990 he lived and worked in Berlin for five years. In 1993 and 1995 he received a scholarship from the City of Munich at Villa Waldberta. In 1995 Altmann moved to Cologne and in 1999 received a scholarship from the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral in Bad Ems .

Awards and grants

  • 2002: Art Prize of the Deutsche Volksbanken and Raiffeisenbanken
  • 2001: Sponsoring 2001, Lothringer 13 / Halle, Munich
  • 2000: art identity Saar Ferngas sponsorship award
  • 1999: Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems (cat.)
  • 1995: Scholarship from the City of Munich in the Künstlerhaus Villa Waldberta

Solo exhibitions

  • 2008 Nusser & Baumgart , Munich
  • 2005 Pictures without Presence , Nusser & Baumgart, Munich, curated by Erno Vroonen (together with Thomas Weinberger)
  • 2004 Room of the Winds , Galerie Mosel & Chekhov, Munich
  • 2003 ViewInteriors , Current Art Gallery in the Osram House, Munich (cat.), Museum - 1993, Oberhausen Castle Memorial Hall
  • 2001 Itemsinteriors , Mosel and Chekhov Gallery, Munich
  • 2000 Art in Architecture - Federal Republic of Germany, Federal Ministry of Transport, Berlin (cat.)
  • 1999 Museum-1993 Art History Institute of the University, Bonn, Germany, Galerie KunstRaum, Trier
  • 1998 MCMRV 97-98 About cities and structures, Galerie Mosel & Chekhow, Munich
  • 1997 Kulturforum Neue Post, Neuss
  • 1995 KunstRaum Gallery, Klaus Hinrichs, Trier, Mosel & Chekhov Gallery, Munich
  • 1994 Goethe Institute, Tel Aviv, Wewerka Gallery, Berlin, Aspects Gallery, Munich
  • 1997 Kaiser Wilhelm Memorials Middle Rhine Museum, Koblenz (cat.), Osmos Gallery, Berlin
  • 1996 Die Galerie, Wewerka Galerie, Berlin, Germany (cat.)
  • 1996 The Moselle, Simeonstift Municipal Museum, Trier, Germany
  • 1994 Art of Memory , Photo Museum in the City Museum, Munich / German Historical Museum, Berlin, Imaginary Museum , Braunschweig Art Association

Projects (selection)

Grabenstrasse 16 in Nassau (Lahn) photographed by Yehuda Altmann, 1999
Berlin, 1991-1993

Documentation of the demonstrations in Kreuzberg and in a pub in Friedrichshain . 24 photographs, solo exhibition in the Brandenburg Parliament, Potsdam 1994.

Monuments, 1991–1992

Monuments shows how to deal with memory and history using three examples. The disappearance of the Lenin memorial in East Berlin, the arrival of the equestrian statue of Kaiser Wilhelm on the Deutsches Eck in Koblenz and the museologization of Mielke's study in the research and memorial site Normannenstrasse in Berlin. Twelve photographic works, exhibited in a solo exhibition in the German Historical Museum, Berlin 1993.

Auschwitz Museum; Sachsenhausen Museum, 1993–1994

Two works, the subject of which is the representation of the Holocaust in the staging of the memorials. "Sachsenhausen Museum" is in the collection of the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation . "Auschwitz-Museum" was shown in various group exhibitions in the Munich Photo Museum, in Oswiecim, Krakow, Weimer and Oldenburg and was purchased by the German Historical Museum. Published in Eikon, No. 14/15 1995.

Exteriors - about cities and structure, 1996

The project was started in 1993 and includes a series of images from various domestic and foreign cities that deal with the definition of time and architectural structures. As part of this project, a series of pictures about Neuss was created, which was shown in an exhibition with a catalog in March / April 1997.

Ten houses - houses of Jewish families in Nassau an der Lahn , 1999

The focus of this work is to create a relationship between the depicted place and its history. Documentary, factual testimony and without moral evaluation. The minian of the houses as a testimony to a Jewish community that was an active part of the social life of this city and that had long since begun to help shape its traditions remains fiction. The traces of the community, which was shattered in 1933, can no longer be combined into a gathering of ten . Ultimately, this only comes together in what is lost, continues to be lost and is thus robbed of its representability. Yehuda Altmann thanks the knowledge about the houses on a tour that friends organized for him at the beginning of April 1999. He got to know Nassau and the surrounding villages in the Taunus , from which most of the Jewish families came, who had settled in the city in the middle and end of the 19th century. The demolition of one of the houses in 2011 that Yehuda Altmann was still able to photograph in 1999 is a further step in expanding the collection of the lost .

Collections

  • Collections of the German Historical Museum, Berlin
  • Munich Photo Museum
  • Osram Collection, Munich
  • City Museum Simeonstift, Trier
  • Brandenburg Memorials Foundation
  • Jagiellonian University Collection, Cracow
  • Middle Rhine Museum, Koblenz
  • Ministry of Transport, Berlin
  • City Archives, Nassau (Lahn)

literature

  • TWIST OF FATE, Photographs Yehuda Altmann, Nusser & Baumgart, 2011, ISBN 3-9808374-4-0
  • Ruth Schneeberger, What You Don't See. Exhibition Kraft, Lang, Hast & Altmann , 2011
  • The year 1989. Pictures of a turning point , Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin 2009
  • BLUR :. Photography, Artional Documentation 2004 , Munich 2005
  • Chr. Schön: Yehuda Altmann ; in: Chr. Schön, H. Schuster, B. Jooss, D. Stöppel: Gallery of Current Art in the Osram House , 2003
  • A. Second u. a .: Art in architecture. The projects of the federal government in Berlin , Ed .: Federal Ministry for Transport, Building and Housing, Berlin 2002, p. 240ff.
  • E. Uthemann et al. a., art identity. Saar Ferngas Promotion Prize 2000 , cat. Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken 2000
  • Klaus Gallwitz (Ed.): Tatort Bad Ems Summer 1999. Yehuda Altmann , Mainz 1999
  • Peter von Becker , Thomas Brandt, Judah Altmann. Photographs 1992-1997 , ed. by Vlg.Mosel & Chekhov, Munich 1997

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Home Yearbook of the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, 2000
  2. ^ SZ gallery tip: Kraft, Lang, Hast & Altmann, Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 19, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Altmann, Yehuda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ein-Mor, Judah (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Lachish , Israel