Deidi von schaewen biography
- German photographer.
- Born in Berlin.
- In Berlin, where she was born in 1941, Deidi von Schaewen initially studied painting before transitioning to photography.
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Deidi von Schaewen
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Deidi von Schaewen (* 1941 in Berlin) ist eine deutsche Architekturfotografin und Kamerafrau.[1]
Leben und Werk
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]Deidi von Schaewen studierte Malerei und Grafikdesign an der Hochschule der Künste Berlin.[2]
Nach Abschluss des Studiums begab sie sich zunächst auf Reisen, wobei sie in Barcelona ihren ersten Auftrag erlangte. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem amerikanischen Architekten Peter Harnden übernahm sie das grafische Design und die Showcases für einen Pavillon für die Expo 67 in Montreal.
Daraufhin reiste sie nach Südspanien und fotografierte dort das damals neue Xanadu Gebäude von Ricardo Bofill. Es entstand ein Austausch zwischen den beiden Künstlern, woraufhin Bofill sie bat, alle seine Gebäude zu fotografieren. Dies
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In Berlin, where she was born in 1941, Deidi von Schaewen initially studied painting before transitioning to photography. After living in both Barcelona and New York, she made the decision to establish herself in Paris in 1974, embarking on global travels from there. As an architectural photographer, she also accomplished a personal work as a visual artist with an obsession to capture the ephemeral, the testimonies of our disappearing urban and rural civilizations.
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Sacred Trees Of India
"Sacred Trees of India" is a project that was initiated nearly three decades ago, celebrating the sacred trees that are "born from the heavens and nurtured by the earth."
Having been intimately acquainted with India for a long time, Deidi von Schaewen presents an extensive compilation of religious rituals and settings that revolve around these exceptional trees, effectively transforming them into genuine artistic installations. This long-term project, comprising nearly a thousand photographs, captures the diverse spectrum of beliefs and religious practices that underlie this
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Living and working in Paris, the artist Deidi von Schaewen began directing films, such as the short film Roland Roure (1982), before devoting herself to photography, which she discovered at the Academy of Arts in Berlin and which fascinated her with its “magical emergence of images born in the dark”. Attached to the notion of the ephemeral, she began a work of cataloguing, aiming to identify traces of reality. Her objective, frontal photographs consist of scaffolding, walls, gutters, footpaths and some silhouettes. Distancing herself from her early research, the artist now exhibits elements of architecture, landscape and cities from around the world with a constant concern for objectivity. She photographs buildings of contemporary architects such as Tadao Ando and Jean Nouvel. To reveal what she perceives, D. von Schaewen returned to the approach of minimal art and to the frontal and industrial aesthetics of Bernd and Hilla Becher.
Always inspired by her environment, her works composed in series reveal yet another of her obsessions, that of ephemeral traces that
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