About German photographer, Ursula SCHULZ-DORNBURG (b. 1938, in Berlin)

Ursula SCHULZ-DORNBURG studied photography and journalism in Munich in 1959 and 1960. In 1967 her family lived in New York, and in 1969 the photographer moved to Düsseldorf. The artist also finds her photo motifs in the remote regions of the world. The subject matter and execution of her concretely consistent works are as close to 'concept photography' as they are to 'documentarism'. Ursula SCHULZ-DORNBURG lives and works in Düsseldorf.

Photo books by Ursula SCHULZ-DORNBURG

  • 'Ansichten von Pagan, Burma' (1978, together with Rudolf Knobel); 'Der Tigris des Alten Mesopotamien, Irak 1980' (1981); 'Architekturen des Wartens' (2007); 'Some Works' (2014); 'Mountain' (2016); 'The Land in Between' (2018); 'Yerevan 1996/1997' (2019); 'Zone Grise' (2019); 'Bugis Houses, Celebes' (2021); 'Huts, Temples, Castles' (2022).

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Out-of-print 'Architectures of Waiting' by Ursula SCHULZ-DORNBURG shows bus stops in Armenia and stations of the Hejaz Railway in Saudi Arabia on a railroad line that once connected Damascus with Medina, but on which no trains have been running for long.
75,00 € * Weight 0.3 kg
'The Land in Between', Ursula SCHULZ-DORNBURG is about the bond between landscape & civilization. Areas of past historical importance show how conflict, destruction & decay transforms landscapes in Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen & Syria
88,00 € * Weight 1.5 kg
The images in out-of-print 'Ansichten von Pagan, Burma' by Ursula SCHULZ-DORNBURG document a temple system in Burma (Myanmar) in the late 1970s. The book contains landscape photographs as well as pictures of stone sculptures from inside the Ananda Temple.
29,80 € * Weight 0.9 kg
Photo volume 'Yerevan 1996/997' by Ursula SCHULZ-DORNBURG is a facsimile of a sketchbook created during her trip to Armenia, which deals with the history of cultural objects long since dismantled and the artist's actions on the way through time and space.
25,00 € * Weight 0.5 kg
Minimalist publication 'Mountain' by Ursula SCHULZ-DORNBURG, now out of print at the publisher, presents her 2006 cycle of black-and-white images of the mythical Mount Ararat in eastern Anatolia. The English-language introductory is by Hartwig Fischer.
98,00 € * Weight 0.2 kg
Exhibitions (a selection)
  • 1975: 'Curtains at St. Mark's Square in Venice' (together with Katharina Sattler), Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich as well as at Galerie Wittrock, Düsseldorf;
    1976: 'Palace Pier, Brighton' (together with Katharina Sattler), Kaiser-Wilhelm-Museum, Krefeld;
    1979: 'Views of Pagan' (together with F. Rudolf Knubel), German UNESCO Commission, Bonn as well as Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf;
    1981-1984: 'The Tigris of Ancient Mesopotamia' (together with F. Rudolf Knubel), Museum Quadrat Bottrop, Bottrop, in the Museum of the 20th Century, Vienna as well as in the Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover;
    1992-1997: 'Sonnenstand', Art Institute of Chicago, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC and at Galerie Wittrock, Düsseldorf;
    1992-1999: 'Wheat / in: Gen-Welten', Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn, in: 'Naturale Reality', Ludwigforum, Aachen as well as in the Museum der Brotkultur, Ulm;
    2000: 'Grenzlandschaften', Wittrock Gallery, Düsseldorf;
    2001: 'Transitsites', Neuhoff Gallery, New York as well as at Galerie Wittrock, Düsseldorf;
    2002: 'Transit Places', Werner Klein Gallery, Cologne; 'The 45th Degree of Longitude', Sabine Knust Gallery, Munich;
    2002-2004: 'Across the territories', Galeria Casa Vallarta, Guadalajara, Mexico, at Centro Fotogràfico Alvares Bravo, Oaxaca, Mexico, and at Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia;
    2004: 'Landscapes of Memory', Werner Klein Gallery, Cologne;
    2006: 'Desert at the 45th degree of longitude', Kunst-Station St. Peter (Cologne), 'PAGAN. Time made of stone', Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich; 2006: 'Iraq. Vanished Landscapes', Gallery Heike Curtze, Berlin;
    2004-2006: 'Architectures of Waiting', Museum Ludwig, Cologne, in the gallery Elke Dröscher, Hamburg as well as in the gallery AEDES West, Berlin;
    2007: 'Photographs', Krefelder Kunstverein, Krefeld;
    2008: 'Objectivités - La photographie à Düsseldorf' (group exhibition), Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - MAM/ARC; 'presencia y ausencia', Fundación BBK, Bilbao; 'Photographie / Beck & Eggeling new quarters, Düsseldorf; 'LUZ DE LA FOTOGRAFÍA. SILENCIO DE LA ARQUITECTURA', Auditorio de San Francisco, Ávila; 'Tongkonan, Alang and the house without smoke', Aedes am Pfefferberg, Berlin;
    2018: 'The Land In-Between. Photographs from 1980 to 2012', Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main;
    2019-2020: 'Zone Grise. The Land In-Between', Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris;