Floris neususs biography
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- Floris Michael Neusüss was a German photographer.
- As an artist, writer, and professor, Floris Neusüss embraced the photogram in the 1960s and never let go for the rest of his career.
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Floris Michael Neusüss
German photographer (1937–2020)
Floris Michael Neusüss (3 March 1937 – 1 April 2020) was a German photographer.[1]
Biography
Floris Neusüss was born in Lennep, Germany, on 3 March 1937. He began as a painter the took up photography which he studied at the Wuppertal School of Arts and Crafts in North Rhine-Westphalia, before continuing at the Bavarian State Institute of Photography in Munich. He trained alongside photographer Heinz Hajek-Halke at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 1957, he began making photograms and photomontages.
In the autumn of 1960, he began to expose whole human bodies on black and white paper. From 1962 onwards, he predominantly used black and white reversal paper for these "body pictures".[2] This not only emphasises their shadowiness, but for Neusüss - coming from painting - "the form-giving element in my pictures has primarily been black."[3] Fritz Gruber gave the works, on which significantly naked female bodies leave their imprints, the significant name "Nudogramme".[4 Floris Neusüss has dedicated his career to extending the practice, study and teaching of experimental photography and the photogram. Alongside his practice as an artist, he is known as an influential writer and teacher, working as Professor in Experimental Photography, University of Kassel, Germany from 1971 until 2009. Since first exhibiting in the 1960s, he has consistently explored the photogram's numerous technical, conceptual and visual possibilities, resulting in works that range from the figurative to the abstract. gelatin silver print photo montage of two negatives Black and white photograph, untitled, by Floris Neusüss, Germany, 1958. A black and white photograph of a woman sitting in front of an uprooted tree, double negative montage, gelatin silver print by Floris Neusüss, 1958. Floris M. Neusüss was always sceptical about the classical function of photography, to document what is and to communicate in pictures what happens. And not least for this reason, he was one of the most innovative photographers of the past six decades. Ever since he completed his education at the Bavarian State School of Photography in 1960, he had been fascinated by the idea of brushing photography against the grain and using it to invent new visual worlds. That is why he enrolled for two years at the Berlin University of the Arts with Heinz Hajek-Halke, a pioneer of experimental photography in the 1920s. Inspired by Yves Klein's »Anthropometries«, the body prints of naked nude models painted with blue paint on the canvas, Neusüss created his first »Nudogramme« from 1960 onwards, full-body photograms, which are made without the use of the camera, through the direct exposure of the photographic paper. Combined to form a room-filling installation, they were the sensation of the Photokina picture shows of 1963. From then on, camera-less photography, the photogram, was Neusüss' trad
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