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"Teh archive of Robert HÄUSSER comprises 64,000 negatives. His artistic oeuvre consists exclusively of black and white images and can be divided into several phases. In addition to his commissioned work, he devoted himself to free artistic photography throughout his later life. In this, he developed his own pictorial approach, which was oriented towards representational motifs. His motifs dealt with transience, with the transformation of nature by man, with traces in the landscape. He worked with strong contrasts, which inevitably led to his decision to use black and white photography. His works were created independently of the artistic and photographic trends of the time, even if parallels to New Objectivity, Subjective Photography or Magical Realism can often be seen in parts of his work. " (© Wikipedia, accessed on 15.04.2024)
Content
The comprehensive monograph 'Aus dem fotografischen Werk 1938-2004' on the work of Robert HÄUSSER contains countless black and white photographs, which have been assigned in chronological order to chapters by various well-known authors (with texts only in German!).
The individual chapter headings are as follows:
- Das Werk von Robert Häusser' (by Fritz L. Gruber);
- 'Sui Generis. Die Fotografie von Robert Häusser' (by A.D. Coleman);
- 'Frühe Bilder - Der junge Fotograf Robert Häusser' (by Eugen Gomringer);
- 'Helle Periode - Camera Lucida' (by Hubertus von Amelunxen);
- 'Spuren und Zeichen' (Traces and Signs. Relative Orientations - Approaches to the 'Inner Image') by Joachim Heusinger von Waldegg;
- 'Thanatos' (The Thanatos Thought and the Existential in the Work of R.H.) by Claude W. Sui;
- 'Orte und Situationen - Chiffren für Bewußtseinslagen' (On the artistic philosophy of R.H.) by Heiner Stachelhaus;
- 'Aus dem Moortagebuch' (From the Moor Diary) by Robert Häusser;
- 'Behausungen - Gedanken beim Betrachten der Bilder' (by Manfred Sack);
- 'Magie der Dinge - Die Sprache der Dinge bei R.H.' (by Peter Anselm Riedel);
- 'Bilder von Menschen' (Pictures of People by Klaus Honnef;
- 'Unterwegs' (by Hans Bender).
This is followed by an equally extensive appendix.