| Dates: | 1915, 12 July - 1978, 3 March | | Born: | Germany, Saarbrücken | | Died: | West Germany, Essen-Werden [now Germany] | | Gender: | Male |
German physician who gave up medicine for photography. He was the founder of Fotoform an avantgarde movement in postwar Germany that promoted subjective photography. Subjective photography being the subjective evaluation of reality through personal, and often abstract, imagery.Preparing biographies
Biography provided by Focal Press
One of the most important post-war German photographers and founder of the Subjective Photography movement in post-war Germany, Steinert was also curator of the international exhibition Subjektive Fotografie in 1951, 1954, and 1958 in Saarbrücken. Steinert’s view of photography as an expression of an individual’s inner state advocated dialog with plastic qualities, graphic manipulations, and concern for form associated with experimental Bauhaus photography of the 1920s. From 1959 until his death he was an influential teacher at the Folkwang School in Essen.
(Author: Garie Waltzer - Photographer and consultant)
Michael Peres (Editor-in-Chief), 2007, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, (Focal Press) [ISBN-10: 0240807405, ISBN-13: 978-0240807409]
(Used with permission)
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Eskildsen, Ute & Knodt, Robert, 1981, Sammlung Otto Steinert, Fotografien: Fotografische Sammlung im Museum Folkwang, Essen, 9.10.-8.11. 1981, (Essen : Museum Folkwang) [Δ]
Steinert, Otto, 1952, Subjektive Fotografie; ein Bildband moderner europaïscher Fotografie. A collection of modern European photography, (Bonn: Brüder Auer) [Δ]
Steinert, Otto, 1999, Der Fotograf Otto Steinert/Herausgegeben von Ute Eskildsen, Museum Folkwang Essen, (Göttingen: Steidl) [Δ]
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| Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. | | Go to website | Grove Art Online (www.groveart.com) has a biography of this artist.
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The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
• Beaton, Cecil & Buckland, Gail 1975 The Magic Eye: The Genius of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Company) p.230 [Useful short biographies with personal asides and one or more example images.]
• Capa, Cornell (ed.) 1984 The International Center of Photography: Encyclopedia of Photography (New York, Crown Publishers, Inc. - A Pound Press Book) p.487-488
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