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- Biography of Andreas Gursky
Emerging from the renowned Düsseldorf School in the late 1980s, Andreas Gursky was pivotal in creating a new standard in contemporary photography, a pioneer who furthered the possibilities of scale and ambition. His massive, clinical, and distanced surveys of public spaces, landscapes, and structures contributed to a new art of picture taking in co...
Vast, large places are of particular interest to the artist such as stock exchanges, concert arenas, big box stores, sweeping landscapes, racetracks, and other locations, which engage in regular re...Gursky's photographs are often shot from an elevated, aerial perspective. This allows viewers to experience a scene in its full proportions, which would ordinarily be impossible, allowing for a vis...A straightforward and distanced observation informs Gursky's work, leaving us to formulate our own opinions and responses. We recognize his world as our own rather than one adorned with any persona...Aggregate space performs largely in the success of each work. Even though his subject matter exists prior to his encounter with it, he manages to masterfully reveal its inherently harmonious sum of...Childhood
Andreas Gursky was born in Leipzig, East Germany on January 15, 1955. An only child, he later moved with his family to the West German city of Essen followed by Düsseldorf in 1957. Both his grandfather and father were successful commercial photographers and although he at first "denied anything to do with photography," he changed his mind in high school. He dabbled in a few commercial shoots before moving in a more artistic direction.
Early Training and Work
In 1978 Gursky began to study photojournalism at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, while working as a taxi driver. After graduating in 1980, he was encouraged by friend and future star photographer Thomas Struth to join him at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1981, where he began to study under the seminal photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher. The Bechers were the founders of what would become known as the Düsseldorf School, and were celebrated for their black and white typographic...
Mature Period
Since the late 1980s Gursky has been "concerned with the human species," (as he put it) exploring the inner workings of contemporary society, specifically globalism and consumerism. He tends to read a photograph "not for what's really going on there, I read it more for what is going on in our world generally." Traveling internationally, his work consists of a wide range of subjects from landscapes to racetracks, public spaces such as stores, and sites of industry and trade. He has evolved a u...
- German
- January 15, 1955
- Leipzig, Germany
12 de jul. de 2018 · Andreas Gursky, un fotógrafo pintor. Como ya se mencionó, Andreas Gursky ha sido muchas veces abordado por la pintura contemporánea, haciendo parte de esa tipología de artistas que permite al arte fotográfico introducirse en el arte pictórico.
Website. Official website. Andreas Gursky (born 15 January 1955) is a German photographer and professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. [1] He is known for his large format architecture and landscape colour photographs, often using a high point of view.
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Andreas Gursky (15 de enero de 1955 en Leipzig) es un fotógrafo alemán conocido fundamentalmente por sus trabajos en gran formato y que trabaja con imágenes en color procesadas digitalmente. Es uno de los fotógrafos más exitosos de la fotografía contemporánea.
- German
- Leipzig, Germany
Biography. Dealers. Events. News. Andreas Gursky is a German artist known for his large-scale digitally manipulated images. Similar in scope to early 19th-century landscape paintings, Gursky’s photographs capture built and natural environments on a grand scale.
Andreas Gursky (Leipzig, 15 de enero de 1955) es un fotógrafo alemán conocido fundamentalmente por sus trabajos en gran formato y que trabaja con imágenes en color procesadas digitalmente. Es uno de los fotógrafos más exitosos de la fotografía contemporánea.
