Claudia Reinhardt

Claudia Reinhardt (born 1964[1][2]) is a contemporary German photographer. She lives and works in Norway and Berlin.

Early life

Claudia Reinhardt was born in southern Germany in 1964. In the age of eighteen she left her home town to live for one year in London. Back in Germany she studied philosophy and literary history in Heidelberg. After two years she broke her studies and started to teach herself in photography. She moved to Berlin to work as a photo assistant. After few years she moved to Hamburg to work as a freelance fashion photographer. Her work was published in different magazines (Szene, Tempo, ID- London). In 1988 - 1994 she was a student at the art academy in Hamburg. Her main teacher was Bernhard Johannes Blume. In that time she founded the art magazine Neidtogether with Ina Wudtke and Heiko Wichmann. Through a grant from the DAAD (Deutsch Akademischer Austauschdienst) she was able to live and work in Los Angeles, where she visited the University of California and the Irwin University/California. After this year she moved back to Berlin. In 2000 she started her teaching job at the Art academy in Bergen/Norway. She held that position as associated professor until 2012. Nowadays she lives and works as an artist in Berlin and Oslo.

Photography

Killing Me Softly- Todesarten

Killing Me Softly- Todesarten is a series of ten photographs depicting the suicides of ten female artists, with Claudia Reinhardt as the model for all of them. The series includes Sarah Kane, Unica Zürn, Clara Immerwahr, Sylvia Plath, Adelheid Duvanel, Ingeborg Bachmann, Anne Sexton, Diane Arbus, Pierre Molinier, and Karin Boye

No Place Like Home

No Place Like Home is a series of 25 photographs based on the town, Viernheim, which Reinhardt grew up in.

Dødspar, Liebespaare

Dødspar, Liebespaare is a series of 23 photographs where Reinhardt stages the suicides of couples. Like in her series Killing Me Softly - Todesarten she uses authentic histories to visualize the last moment of these peoples lives. The series includes Stefan Zweig and Lotte Zweig, Heinrich von Kleist and Henriette Vogel, André Gorz and his wife Dorine, Jochen Klepper and his wife Johanna Stein and her daughter Renate, Arthur Koester and Cynthia Jefferies, Bernard und Georgette Cazes and others.

Video installation

Liebesmüh`- Lovers Labour

Liebesmüh`- Loves Labour is a series of five videos with a total running time of 30 minutes. It depicts fictional female characters who were created by male authors in the end of 19th century. The serie includes: Nora by Henrik Ibsen, Nana by Émile Zola, Effi Briest by Theodore Fontane, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoi and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.

No Place Like Home

No Place Like Home is a video based on her photo series with the same name and has a running time of 12 minutes.

Collections

Reinhardt's work can be found in the collections of Gaby u. Wilhelm Schurmann, Aachen, and F.C. Gundlach, Hamburg, among others.[3]

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions/selection[4] 

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Group Exhibitions[5]

Notes

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  2. ↑ "Claudia Reinhardt". Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
  3. ↑ Reilly, Maura; Nochlin, Linda, eds. (2007). Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art (1st ed.). New York: Merrell. p. 282. ISBN 1-8589-4390-6.
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Further reading

Selected published works

External links

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