Arno Fischer
1927 born in Berlin
Lives in Leipzig
Education
Käthe Kollwitz School, Berlin
College for the Creative Arts, Berlin
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1997 Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle
1998 nbk - neue bildende Kunst, Berlin Galerie argus fotokunst, Berlin
2000 Haus der Fotografie e. V., Hanover
2002 Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus, Berlin
Der Garten, Galerie Rosenkranz, Chemnitz
Selected Group Exhibitions
1996 Kunstamt Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin
1998 Galerie
... zimmer, Düsseldorf
KulturBrauerei, Berlin
1999 Zwischen Abstraktion und Wirklichkeit - Fotografie der 50er Jahre, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen am Rhein
2000 Fünfzehn Jahre Fotografie, Fotogalerie Helsingforser Platz, Berlin
2001 Berlin im Spiegel der Zeit, Galerie argus fotokunst, Berlin
2002 Paarungen - Künstlerische Positionen im Dialog, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
Foto-Anschlag. Vier Generationen ostdeutscher Fotografen, Haus der Geschichte der BRD, Bonn
Selected Further Reading
1. Fischer, Arno: Arno Fischer, Photographien / Text von Jutta Voigt und Andreas Krase. - Leipzig: Connewitzer Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1997
About The Artist's Work
"Fischer's best works often show that particular moment, when an individual in a crowd, in a group, or together with someone, is alone in the world, alone in history, overwhelmed by the power of the moment, left to his own devices, amazed and astonished."
(from: Fischer, Arno: Arno Fischer, Photographien / Text von Jutta Voigt und Andreas Krase. - Leipzig: Connewitzer Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1997.)
Arno Fischer is an iconic figure in history of German photography. The ROSPHOTO exhibition presents ca. 140 pieces of the renowned master unveiling different periods of his work.
The starting point for the exhibition is one of Fischer's early series, Situation Berlin. These photographs were made from 1953 to 1960, just before construction of the Berlin Wall. In 1961 they were rejected for publication, but it was this series that introduced the talented photographer to the society. His prophetic image Crack in the Wall, which was created in the early 1950’s became a symbol of the divided Berlin.
Documentary photography wasn’t Arno Fischer’s sole interest. After his failure with Situation Berlin he created a black-and-white series picturing German diva Marlene Dietrich, als...
Monograph for a traveling exhibition produced by the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (Institute for Foreign Relations)
Impressive survey of all the photographer’s important groups of works
Arno Fischer (*1927 in Berlin), is one of Germany’s most important photographers. After studying sculpture, he turned to photography in the fifties. He worked in East Berlin during this period, and, as a man who walked the line between East and West, his photographs reflected the situation in the divided city. There he produced seminal works, including fashion photography for the legendary magazine Sibylle—Zeitschrift für Mode und Kultur. In addition to his expressive portraits of people such as Marlene Dietrich, his haunting travel photos, taken in the German Democratic Republic, Poland, India, New Yor...
"Übergangsgesellschaft" (Transition Stage) is an exhibition of photographs produced in the 1980s in the GDR. The works, which avoid pathos, are at once poetical and punctilious in the way they depict the mood of those momentous years.
In selecting pictures for the exhibition the Academy was not primarily concerned with the fall of the Wall, the demonstrations that preceded it or a chronicle of the popular movement. The exhibition focuses on the far-reaching changes, atmospheric and political, that were exploding the canonical rules governing image and were informing a new subjectivity in the work of artists. One theory posited by the exhibition is that it was precisely these changes that laid the ground for citizens' protest against the norms and aesthetics of a system. So it is that the exhibition at P...
Né en 1927, il a été le passeur entre Berlin Est et Ouest jusqu'à l'édification du mur.
Il a ensuite travaillé à l'Est.
Le public français l'a découvert à Arles en 1987 puis dernièrement à Nice en 2004.
C'est un des « grands » de la photographie allemande.
Annonce du festival sur Actuphoto :http://www.actuphoto.com/page.php?page=pronews/news_complete&id=2069
© Arno Fischer
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