Museum Folkwang presents Photographs and Woodcuts by Pidder Auberger - a very dimensional collection

The Folkwang Museum’s Photographic Collection presents artist Pidder Auberger’s first ever large-scale solo show.

The show focuses on his abstract work. He stemmed from a background in painting and illustration before creating photographic work in the 1970s, followed by his first woodcuts and clichés verre in the 1980s.

His work is characterised by an experimental approach to media, which he develops in an unconventional way and then reunites – a very contemporary subject, see GoSee ART article on Ilse Haider and her Otto Breicha Award.

For example, Pidder’s exposure montages combine three processes, the photogram with camera photography and cliché verre – a technique between photography and graphics.

His photographs and woodcuts both depict motifs that capture a relationship to reality but can range further a field to purely abstract imagery.

Auberger’s writing is an absurd/amusing exploration of certain questions his chosen media ask. Two of these are voiced in the exhibition.

The 70 pieces stem from the Photographic and Graphic collection, which multiplied thanks to a donation from Wolfgang Wittrock, Berlin, as well as various loans from the artist’s studio.

Pidder Auberger (* 1946 in Dinslaken-Lohberg, real name Johann Peter Auberger) is a German fine artist and photographer.

Having graduated from the Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck School in Goch, 1967, he then studied at the Staatlichen Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1970 to 1975.

He works as an artists and lives in Düsseldorf and Westerwald.


Pidder Auberger – Photographs and Woodcuts
Museum Folkwang
until 3 April 2011