Thomas kellner biography
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Thomas Kellner
Thomas Kellner | |
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| Born | (1966-05-28) May 28, 1966 (age 58) Bonn, North-Rhine-Westfalia, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Known for | Photography |
| Movement | Cubism |
| Website | thomaskellner.com |
Thomas Kellner (born May 28, 1966, in Bonn) is a German fine-art photographer, lecturer and curator. He became known above all for his large-format photographs of famous architectural monuments, which, through many individual images and a shifted camera perspective, look like "photo mosaics".[1]
Life
[edit]From 1989 to 1996, Kellner studied Art and Social science at the University of Siegen to become a teacher.[2] At the chair of Professor Jürgen Königs, a genuine "school of pinhole camera photography"[3] developed at the University of Siegen's Department of Art, Kellner intensively studied the possibilities and limits of this technique. At the same time he experimented with other methods of photography such as Sal
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Thomas Kellner was born in Bonn, Germany in 1966. He studied art, sociology, politics, and economics at the University of Siegen. In 1996 he received the Kodak Young Talent Award, which encouraged him to live as an artist. Since then, Kellner has been living in Siegen as an artist and curator of photographic exhibition projects. In 2003 he was appointed to the German Society for Photography (DGPh).
Thomas Kellner has shown his work in solo exhibitions in Germany, Australia, Russia, China, France, Poland, Denmark, Brazil, and the USA since 2002 and has been involved in numerous group exhibitions and publications. His works are represented in important private and public collections such as Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock Abbey, United Kingdom, George Eastman House, Rochester, USA, Library of Congress, Washington, District of Columbia, USA, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA, Museu dem Arte Moderna, Rio dem Janeiro, Brazil, The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA, Museum of Fine
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Fotograf Magazine
The German photographer Thomas Kellner (born 1966, Bonn) ranks among the world’s eminent photographers of architecture. He developed an original method of photographing buildings, achieving an unmistakable form of expression – the buildings in his photographs give the impression of dancing. Kellner totally places on its head the basic impact of classical architecture – its sense of stability, permanence, and order. He picks the world’s (thus far predominantly European) most well known monuments, landmarks, tourist attractions, and symbols, those epitomizing countries or cities. All of them have been photographed thousands of times by tourists, always from much the same angle and spot, from where they can be easily surveyed in their entirety. It is Kellner’s ambition to go beyond this routine way of looking at things.