photographers Döring-Spengler, Herbert (D)

artwork infocusgalerie burkhard arnold

  • Herbert Döring-Spengler, Diazetta - flowers, 2017
  • Herbert Döring-Spengler, Diazetta - flowers, 2017

    C-Print on Aludibond with UV protection, 125 x 100 cm, Edition of 12, please ask gallery for price

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  • Herbert Döring-Spengler, Diazetta - Brexit, 2016
  • Herbert Döring-Spengler, Diazetta - Brexit, 2016

    C-Print on Aludibond with UV protection, 50 x 87 cm, Edition of 12, please ask gallery for price

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  • Herbert Döring-Spengler, Tanz 1, 1998
  • Herbert Döring-Spengler, Tanz 1, 1998

    Herbert Döring-Spengler, Tanz 1, 1998 printed later, 50 x 60 cm, C-Print, Ed. 3, signed, dated and numbered verso, please ask gallery for price.



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  • Herbert Döring-Spengler, der Kuss/the kiss, 1989
  • Herbert Döring-Spengler, der Kuss/the kiss, 1989

    Herbert Döring-Spengler, der Kuß, 1989 printed later, 50 x 60 cm, C-Print, Ed. 3, signed, dated and numbered verso, please ask gallery for price.

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  • Herbert Döring-Spengler, Nude I, 1990
  • Herbert Döring-Spengler, Nude I, 1990

    Herbert Döring-Spengler, Nude I, 1990, Original Polaroid 18 x 24 cm, unique, signed, dated and numbered verso, please ask gallery for price.



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  • Herbert Döring-Spengler, Nude II, 1990
  • Herbert Döring-Spengler, Nude II, 1990

    Herbert Döring-Spengler, Nude II, 1990, Original Polaroid 18 x 24 cm, unique, signed, dated and numbered verso, please ask gallery for price.



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  • Herbert Döring-Spengler, Madonna, 2001
  • Herbert Döring-Spengler, Madonna, 2001

    Herbert Döring-Spengler, Madonna, 2001, 30 x 40 cm, C-Print, Ed. 3, signed, dated and numbered verso, please ask gallery for price.

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  • Herbert Döring-Spengler, Nude sitting, 2004
  • Herbert Döring-Spengler, Nude sitting, 2004

    Herbert Döring-Spengler, Nude sitting, 2004, special edition of 25 with book "Döring-Spengler - Works with Polaroid", ca. 14 x 14 cm, C-Print (8x10 cm), signed, dated and numbered, 75 €.

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biography infocusgalerie burkhard arnold

Herbert Döring-Spengler (prices: 300 € - 5000 €)
born 1944 in Cologne

For many years and through his work, the photo artist Döring-Spengler has dealt with the topic of the human being and its interaction with the world and society. In his latest work, photography is an artistic tool which is constantly altered through overlapping and editing with different techniques in order to create artistic-picturesque statements. These latest developments are implemented in the so-called Diazetten. This technique creates collages of pictures through overlapping, which also reflect on certain situations and historic-political events. Those Diazetten are confronted by the artists well-known Polaroid-works, in which Döring-Spengler alters the uniqueness of both the Polaroids themselves and artistic composition. Döring-Spengler creates images of humans in situations which are taken out of the documentation's context and brought into a timeless quality.

In those Diazetta-motifs, one witnesses Herbert Döring-Spengler as a politically-thinking artist focused on everyday life who expresses opinions on various events of the late world history in his works. Be it the successful choice of a “loudspeaker“ in the United States or the Brexit with its consequences on the stock-market which eventually entails consequences for the people. The Diazetten are created through similar structures in overlapping and editing we know from his Polaroid-works and show a world in the same way as we are confronted by it, in which everything is connected, everything is overlapped by everything and therefore creates a diversity and polychromatism which might exacerbate one's vista.
Dr. Gabriele Uelsberg, director of LVR Museum Bonn, Germany, 2017


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„Since middle of the 80's the Cologne artist Herbert Döring-Spengler is concerned with the Polaroid. He began with grooves into the fresh material, with the separation of the layers, combined Polaroid and video, referred to art-historical models and he worked with unusual materials. The mixture happens emotional, the feelings and not the reason following. Döring-Spengler is one of the creative persons in his area. His pictures are born as simple photos or video sequences, colored changed, taken up with Polaroid, torn apart, dried, with their new carrier again as slide, used or again photographed, to at the end either a original Polaroid, silver gelatine print or a C-print are present.

shows infocusgalerie burkhard arnold

single shows /selection:

1984

>Internationale Photoszene<, Köln
1985
Close-up Fotogalerie, Antwerpen/Belgien
1986
Internationale Photoszene, Köln
1987
>Schenkung Fuji< (Europe) GmbH, Museum Ludwig, Köln
1988
Stara Galeria, Stettin/Polen
>Kölner Köpfe<, Kunstverein Nümbrecht
1990
Bilderszene der Stadt Köln, Photokina
Linhof Galerie, München
1991
>Internationale Photoszene<, in focus Galerie, Köln
>40000 Kreuze<, Installation und Edition zugunsten Unicef, Köln
1992
Galerie Polnocna, Warschau/Polen
1993
Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Köln
1995
>Erinnerungen an eine Kindheit<, Kunstverein rechtsrheinisch e.V., Köln
1996
Galerie Lutz Teutloff, Köln
1997
>Polaroids<, Galerie Arbeiterfotografie, Köln
1998
>Polaroids<, in focus Galerie, Köln
Arbeiten mit Polaroid, Stadtmuseum Siegburg
Galeristen und Ausstellungsmacher in Köln, Studio DuMont, Kölner
2000
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo/Norwegen
>Celebrities - Famous Faces<, Galerie Lutz Teutloff, Bielefeld
Arbeiten mit Polaroid, Galerie Skala, Köln
2001
Sammler in NRW, Kunstmuseum „Alte Post", Mülheim a. d. Ruhr
>Innere Fotografie - Seelenbilder<, Stiftung St. Matthäus, Berlin
Käthe Kollwitz Revisited, Käthe Kollwitz Museum, Köln
2002
>Sprechende Hände<, VHS-Studienhaus, Köln
2003
>Porträt und Akt-Arbeiten< mit Polaroid,
OMC Galerie f. Gegenwartskunst, Düsseldorf
>Hommage an Edvard Munch<, Kunsthalle St. Annen, Lübeck
2004
>Sprechende Hände<, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn
>Hommage an Edvard Munch< Städt. Galerie Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach
Zum 60. Geburtstag, Galerie Skala, Köln
2005
Kunstverein Siegen
2006
Galerie Brötzinger Art, Pforzheim
2007 Kamera- und Fotomuseum Leipzig über in focus Galerie, Köln
Fototage Wiesbaden
2010
Stadtmuseum Siegburg
2011
Käthe Kollfwitz- Frauenmuseum Bonn
2012
Pumpwerk Kunstverein Siegburg
2017 in focus Galerie, Köln - DIAZETTA -

groupshows:


1986
Stadtmuseum, Köln, Köln-Kunst 86, Köln
1988
Foto-Fest, Houston/Texas (USA)
1990
Goethe-Institut, Paris/Frankreich
1991
>Das Gesicht<, Galerie Koppelmann, Köln
>Bilderlust<, Altes Museum, Berlin
>Bilderlust<, Galerie Rhänitzgasse, Dresden
>Bilderlust<, Museum Luwig, Köln
Art Cologne, Galerie Koppelmann, Köln
1992
Abschied vom Friesenplatz, Galerie Koppelmann, Köln
Foto-Fest, Houston/Texas (USA)
1994
>Innere Fotografie<, Gothaer Kunstforum, Köln
Große Kunstausstellung NRW, Düsseldorf
1996
Kamera-und Fotomuseum, Leipzig
1997
>Befragung der Engel<, Industrie- und Filmmuseum Wolfen e.V.
1998
>Downtown<, L. Fritz Gruber zum 90. Geburtstag, Galerie Lichtblick, Köln
>Kölnische Galerie der Wünsche<, Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Köln
Galerie Lutz Teutloff, Bielefeld
2000
>Kinder des 20. Jahrhunderts<, Galerie in der Jesuitenkirche, Aschaffenburg, Mittelrhein-Museum
>Kölner Künstler beim Fotografen<, Museum Ludwig, Köln
2001
>Kunst auf Rezept<, Museum der Stadt Ratingen
>Heads< in focus Galerie, Köln
>Artbridge<, Edward Carter Gallery, New York/USA mit in focus Galerie, Köln
2002
>Counter Clockwise<, Polaroid Collection-Image Gallery/Denmark
>KörperBodies<, Gallery Skala, Köln
>Kunst auf Rezept< Städt. Museum Zwickau
Herforder Kunstverein Siegerlandmuseum, Siegen
>Bilder bewegung uns - Mißelbecks Weggefährten<,
Pumpwerk-Kunstwerkverein Siegburg
2003
Muzeum Historii Fotografii, Krakau/Polen
>Bilder gegen den Krieg<, Galerie Lichtblick, Köln
Kunst Köln, OMC Galerie f. Gegenwartskunst, Düsseldorf
2004
Galerie in focus, Köln
2005
>Polaroid als Geste<, Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig
2011
Frauenmuseum Bonn
2014 Teutloff Collection, Kunsthaus Lempertz
Michael Hobach Stiftung, Köln
2015
Kunstverein Rhein-Sieg
Stadtmuseum Siegburg

bibliography infocusgalerie burkhard arnold

Collections:
Internationale Polaroid-Collection - FUJI Photo Film Europe - Museum Ludwig, Köln - Fotomuseum, Burghausen - Musee de la Photographie Centre DArt Contemporain, Chaleroi/Belgien - Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Köln - Sammlung Uwe Scheid - Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund - Takeshi Tokino, Osaka/Japan - Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo/Norwegen - Museum f. Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Lübeck - Stiftung Museum Schloß Moyland - Käthe Kollwitz Museum, Köln - Kunstsamlingene, Oslo Kommune/Norwegen - Rheinisches Landmuseum, Bonn - Sammlung Lutz Teutloff - Kunstverein Siegen

Monographs
- 1994 Döring-Spengler, Leben ohne?, Köln
- 1995 Döring-Spengler, chemical paintings on silvergelatine, Köln
- 1998 Döring-Spengler, Arbeiten mit Poaroid, Siegburg, Stadtmuseum 
- 2004 Döring-Spengler, Works with Polaroid, 50 color images, Köln