Otto Steinert
{{Short description|German photographer}}
Otto Steinert (12 July 1915 – 3 March 1978) was a German photographer.{{cite web|last1=Tate|accessdate=2019-11-12|title=Otto Steinert|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/display/otto-steinert|website=Tate}}
Life and work
Born in Saarbrücken, Germany, Steinert was a medical doctor by profession and was self-taught{{cite news|first1=Sean|last1=O'Hagan|accessdate=2019-11-12|title=Sean O'Hagan reviews the Street and Studio photography exhibition at Tate Modern, London|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/may/25/photography.art|newspaper=The Observer|date=25 May 2008|issn=0029-7712|via=www.theguardian.com}} in photography. After World War II, he initially worked for the State School for Art and Craft (Staatliche Schule für Kunst und Handwerk, today HTW) in Saarbrücken.
He was the founder of the Fotoform photography group.{{cite web|url=http://www.artechock.de/kunst/magazin/be/toschn.htm|title=besprechung fotoform und toni schneider}} (in German){{cite news|first1=Marc|last1=Feustel|accessdate=2019-11-12|title=Michael Wolf obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/may/02/michael-wolf-obituary|newspaper=The Guardian|date=2 May 2019|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com}}
From 1959, he taught at the Folkwang Hochschule design school in Essen, where he later died.
His archive is part of the photographic collection of the Museum Folkwang, Essen.
Exhibitions
Publications
- Parisian Forms. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2008. Edited by Ute Eskildsen. {{ISBN|978-3865216243}}. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Museum Folkwang, Essen.{{cite book|last1=Museum Folkwang Essen|first2=Ute|last2=Eskildsen|title=Otto Steinert: Parisian forms|publisher=Steidl : Museum Folkwang |location=Göttingen; Essen|isbn=9783865216243|oclc=1110324709}}
Collections
Steinert's work is held in the following public collections:
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: 2 prints (as of November 2019){{cite web|accessdate=2019-11-12|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search#!?q=Otto%2520Steinert&perPage=20&sortBy=Relevance&offset=0&pageSize=0|title=2 results for "Otto Steinert"|website=www.metmuseum.org}}
- Museum of Modern Art, New York: 3 prints (as of November 2019){{cite web|accessdate=2019-11-12|title=Otto Steinert|url=https://www.moma.org/artists/5632?locale=en|website=The Museum of Modern Art}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.uni-kassel.de/upress/online/frei/Bildteil.pdf Images by Otto Steinert] (PDF)
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Category:Photographers from Saarland
Category:People from Saarbrücken
Category:People from the Rhine Province
Category:Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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