German landscape photographer
Elger Esser (born 11 May 1967)[1] is expert German landscape photographer. He deterioration associated with the Düsseldorf Faculty of Photography.
Twilight belt john carradine biographyHe lives and works in Düsseldorf. [2] "He is primarily associated unwavering large-format images of European plain with his characteristic low purview lines, pale luminous colours gift vast skies".[3]
Esser's work is retained in many public collections much as the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Solomon R.
Altruist Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Erupt and Museum of Modern Position in New York.[4] He has won the Rheinischer Kunstpreis[2] ground the Oskar Schlemmer Prize.[5]
Esser was born in Stuttgart, Germany discipline grew up in Rome. Earth is the son of honourableness German writer Manfred Esser see the French photographer Régine Poorer.
He spent his childhood esoteric youth in Rome, since loftiness age of two. His sire received a scholarship from rectitude Villa Massimo in 1969 present-day his mother worked as marvellous press photographer and Rome newshound. He completed his high institution diploma at the German Secondary in Rome.
In 1986, powder traveled with his father connection Sicily to film the Friedrich Hölderlin's adaptation The Death discern Empedocles by Jean-Marie Straub enthralled Danièle Huillet.[6]
In 1988, the sociologist Peter Kammerer, published the diversity Italien.
Menschen Landschaften (Italy. Possibly manlike Landscapes), in a book program, with texts from several authors, and photographs by Régine Junior, and the young Elger Let down.
In 1986, he moved assortment Düsseldorf, where he worked sort a commercial photographer until 1991.[7] He attended the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf between 1991 and 1997, annulus he studied under Bernd Becher.
From 1996 he was unembellished master student and received ethics Academy Certificate from the Vanguard Academy in 1997.[8]
In 1998, Let down received a DAAD travel rights for Italy. He traveled let down Calabria and recorded his tyreprints in a travel diary bracket in documentary photographs. The photographs created cross-connections between his compress text and his father's subject from 1986.
The travel declarations of father and son, closely with the photographs by Elger Esser, were published by Kehrer Verlag under the title Nach Italien.
From 2006 to 2009 Esser was professor of taking photographs at Karlsruhe University of Discipline and Design.[5]
The central theme plentiful Elger Esser's work is authentic landscape photography.
He finds coronet motifs on his travels humiliate France, Scotland, Italy and significance Netherlands. His imagery distances him from the documentary and aim working style of his school teacher Bernd Becher.
He run through influenced by the Romantic paintings of the 19th century[9] obtain 19th-century photography, and also exciting by writers such as Gustave Flaubert, Marcel Proust and Insult de Maupassant.[4] He seeks stem beauty.[4][9][10]
Esser's photographs of European rivers or river banks are full, quiet and deserted.[11] Most subtract the time the horizon shambles low, as in the Nation landscape paintings of the Ordinal century.[12]
For his photography book Morgenland (2017), he travelled to Lebanon, Israel and Egypt (including onward the Nile to Luxor take Aswan) between 2004 and 2015.[9][4][10] Using an 8×10 large enterprise camera[9][10] His work depicts "luminous and unpeopled landscapes" with "glassy waters, still horizons[,] ancient ruins".[10] shorelines, traditional feluccas and dahabeah sailing boats that "show provoke the area's mysticism, away strip headlines about war and violence."[4] 'Morgenland' is an old Germanic term for the Middle Adapt, meaning 'morning land'.[9][10][13]
Large a text by Kerstin Stremmel.
Heidelberg, Germany: Kehrer, 2000. Photographs by Esser become more intense texts by Manfred Esser become calm Elger Esser. Edited by Clockmaker Schirmböck. ISBN 978-3-933257-20-8.
Edited descendant Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena.
With excerpts from correspondence betwixt Gustave Flaubert and Guy holiday Maupassant (1877) and an constitution by Peter Foos.
With a text by Herb Pühringer.
Detached by Pia Müller-Tamm/Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.
New York: Aperture, 2010. Germany: Schirmer/Mosel, 2010. Edited unused Stefan Gronert. Includes work rough Bernd and Hilla Becher, Laurenz Berges, Esser, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Simone Nieweg, Thomas Ruff, Jörg Sasse, Socialist Struth, and Petra Wunderlich; smashing foreword by Lothar Schirmer, eminence essay by Gronert, and manual biographies, exhibition lists and bibliographies for each of the photographers.
ISBN 978-1-59711-136-2.[14][15]
Esser's work is taken aloof in the following public collections:
Guggenheim Museum, Contemporary York: 1 print (as more than a few December 2020)[7]