Matthias Leupold
Matthias Leupold (* 1959 in Berlin ) is a German photographer and university lecturer.
Life and work
Matthias Leupold has worked since 1985 as a freelance photographer in the fields of art and media and industry. He studied at the University of the Arts ( Hochschule der Künste ) in Berlin (now University of the Arts ) Visual Communication with the Diplom - Designer and master students. He is in Berlin professor of art photography and digital imaging media at the btk Berlin Technical Art School and, since 2007, its rector.
Photography and film fascinate Matthias Leupold alike. Consequently, the scenic photograph is his means of artistic expression. In his serial works Leupold goes manifestations groups of images and their social relations on the ground. 1988/89 he starts the III. German Art Exhibition - Dresden 1953 artistic analyze. Here are pictures taken this strict commencement of the formalism debate and photographically re-staged. 1994 succeeds Leupold to show these visual critique of the place of the former event, the Military History Museum in Dresden. His work has hung so exactly in that house in which these far-reaching power demonstration took place in 1953.
In another black / white image sequence content of the ideology of the German magazine is the gazebo to 1911/12 and taken up with elaborate props, backgrounds and period clothing re-staged.
In addition to the series Leupold photographed numerous individual portraits and tableaux. Actors, models and lay earn are visualized in front of his camera productions in which both personal and socially relevant issues such as loneliness, homecoming, injury, need for protection, abundance and waste as well as current events and observations compacted.
Pictures of Michelangelo, Hans Baldung Grien and Cranach the Elder. are particularly inspiring for his work. A particular substantive terms represent some of his photographs to the novel by Robert Musil The Man Without Qualities ago.
From 1997-98, Matthias Leupold held on in the German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome. The resulting there mostly color photographs are characterized by outstanding works of art of the Italian Renaissance and the southern light.
Matthias Leupold represents a singular position in the artistic landscape. In his exhibitions of art of the GDR in the National Gallery in Berlin in 2003 and Berlin-Moscow / Moscow - Berlin 2004 Moscow 2004 this is expressed. What he has developed and what makes his work, tries to summarize in three polar tension between static and dynamic, between contemplation and narration, between jest and symbol. In the pictures these dimensions and categories do not fall apart, but merge partially or completely.
Matthias Leupold lives and works in Berlin, he is the son of Harry Leupold, Berlin theaters and Designer, ( 1928-2013 ).
Works (selection)
Publications ( picture books )
Exhibitions (selection)
Solo Exhibitions
Group exhibitions ( selection)
Collections (selection)
- Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Museum of Photography, Berlin
- Berlin Gallery
- Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Museum Folkwang Essen
- Rhineland Museum Bonn
- Stiftung Moritzburg - Kunstmuseum of Saxony- Anhalt
- Heinz Nixdorf Museum Forum, Paderborn
- Forum of Contemporary History Leipzig
- Artotheque Berlin
Prices
Bronze Award Best Photographer of the Year, Lianzhou Photo Festival, China 2008