Hildegard Ochse

Hildegard Ochse
Born (1935-12-07)December 7, 1935
Bad Salzuflen, Lippe, Germany
Died (1997-06-28)June 28, 1997
Berlin, Germany
Cause of death leukemia
Nationality German
Occupation Photographer
Style Documentary
Spouse(s) Horst
Children 4
Website hildegard-ochse.de, autorenfotografin.de

Hildegard Ochse (December 7, 1935 – June 28, 1997) was a German photographer.

Life and work

Ochse was born in 1935 in Bad Salzuflen, Germany, the daughter of Dr. phil. Emma Maria Römer-Krusemeyer [1] and Arthur Peter Maria Römer. In 1952 she traveled to the USA on a student exchange to Rochester, returning to Germany 1953 with a Senior High School Diploma form Nazareth Academy. After she finished her general qualification for university entrance 1955 in Bad Salzuflen, she studied Roman language and art history at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. In 1958 she married Dr. phil. Prof. Horst Ochse (1927-2014),[2] later giving birth to four children. In 1973 the family moved to West Berlin and lived in Berlin-Steglitz.

Beginning photography studies in 1975, she then pursued more advanced training at Michael Schmidt's "Werkstatt für Fotografie", and via workshops presented by Lewis Baltz, John Gossage, Larry Fink, and André Gelpke. By 1978, she was an educator herself, teaching photography at the Landesbildstelle and at Berlin's teacher training college.[3]

After embarking on her freelance photography career in Berlin in 1981, she exhibited her work in Berlin and Italy. A portion of the body of work she produced is housed in the collections of the Berlinische Galerie [4] in Berlin and at the Universitá di Parma, Centro studi, dip. Fotografia and private collections.

Diagnosed with leukemia in 1995, she underwent several rounds of chemotherapy, but succumbed to the disease in Berlin in July 1997 at the age of 61. She was survived by her husband, four children Adrian, Katharina, Caroline, Benjamin and five grandchildren.[5]

Publishing rights for most of Hildegard Ochse's photographs are now handled by her son Benjamin Ochse and the Prussian Heritage Image Archive.

Notable works

  • 1979: Natur in der Stadt, Großstadtvegetation
  • 1980: No Future – Café Mitropa
  • 1980: Landscapes – Denmark at the beach
  • 1981: Municipal church
  • 1980-83: Street photography, Winter in Berlin
  • 1982: Bosa
  • 1983: Topographic Sequenzen of a city and changing landscapes
  • 1983: Host country Germany
  • 1983: Bomarzo
  • 1985: The anthropology and the portrait
  • 1986-87: The oath of the constitution
  • 1987: KPM – Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin
  • 1989: Israel : Land der Steine (Land of Stones)
  • 1989-90: The Berlin Wall – Metamorphose
  • 1990: Peregrination though Mark-Brandenburg
  • 1990: The Children of Berlin-Marzahn
  • 1991: Normandy – French Fisherman

Exhibitions

  • 1978: Gallery Franz Mehring, Berlin, Germany
  • 1979: Gallery Mutter Fourage, Berlin, Germany
  • 1983: Gallery Fioretta, Reflextions, group exhibition, Padua, Italy
  • 1983: Gallery II Diaframma-Canon, group exhibition, Milan, Italy
  • 1984: Berlin University of the Arts, Photos of an exhibition, solo exhibition, Berlin, Germany
  • 1985: Galleria fotografica comunale, Centro Culturale Pubblico Polivalente, group exhibition, Ronchi dei Legionari near Trieste, Italy
  • 1987: Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Street photography, S-Bahn sequences, Berlin Festival Gallery, 750 Years Berlin, group exhibition, Berlin, Germany
  • 1991: Gallery „Inselstraße *13“, Metamorphose, group exhibition, Berlin, Germany
  • 1992: Local museum Wedding, Female Sphere – Women's Spaces, group exhibition, Berlin, Germany
  • 2004: Taranaki Art Gallery, Metamorphose, solo exhibition, New Plymouth, New Zealand
  • 2009: The House of Brandenburg-Prussian History, documentation about Brandenburg, Potsdam, Germany
  • 2009: European Commission in Germany, Fall of the Berlin Wall *1989, group exhibition, Berlin, Germany
  • 2009: Gallery at the culture centre Karlshorst, *20 Years of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, group exhibition, Berlin, Germany
  • 2010: Cafe Club International, Ulysses period of Facebook and Twitter, group exhibition, Vienna, Austria
  • 2012: House on Kleistpark (German Haus am Kleistpark), Hildegard Ochse (*1935 - *1997) - The Legacy of Photographer, solo exhibition, Berlin, Germany [6]
  • 2013: German State Parliament Brandenburg Landtag Brandenburg, TRANSITION (German WENDEZEIT) *1989 - *1991, solo exhibition, Potsdam, Germany [7]
  • 2014: 18m Salon, BÜROZEIT u.a. Ansichten einer Autorenfotografin (English Office hours and other views of a Auteur Photographer), Berlin, Germany
  • 2015: Kommunale Gallery Berlin, Between Her Own Viewpoint and Authentic Reality, The Photographic Oeuvre of Hildegard Ochse, Berlin, Germany [8]
  • 2016: C/O Berlin at the Amerika Haus, Kreuzberg - Amerika : Werkstatt für Photographie 1976 - 1986, group exhibition, Berlin, Germany [9][10]
  • Gallery Schwalenberg, Strong women in the arts – Female artist at dawn of Modernism, group exhibition, Schwalenberg, Germany
  • Forum for Fine Art, Encounters with reality, group exhibition, Heidelberg, Germany
  • 2018: Reinbeckhallen, Money – Madness – Mind, group exhibition, Berlin, Germany

Further reading

  • Großstadtkirchen: Bilder der Gegenwart. Herder Publisher, Freiburg, 1982
  • Frauenzimmer – Frauenräume. district office Berlin-Wedding, Berlin, 1982
  • Barbara Köppe, Fotografien 1988 - 1990, Hildegard Ochse, Metamorphosen 1990. Gallery "Inselstrasse 13", Berlin, 1991 [11]
  • Lothar Schirmer: Martin Rupprecht, Bühnenbilder und Kostüme, Henschel, Berlin, 2005, P.119-121; ISBN 3-89487-524-0
  • Wolfgang Farkas, Stefanie Seidl, Heiko Zwirner: Nachtleben Berlin. 1974 bis Heute, Metrolit, Berlin, 2013, P. 34; ISBN 978-3-8493-0304-4
  • Florian Ebner, Felix Hoffmann, Inka Schube, Thomas Weski, Virginia Heckert (Autor): Werkstatt für Photographie 1976-1986: C/O Berlin, Museum Folkwang Essen, Sprengel Museum Hannover. Koenigs Books, 2016, ISBN 3-96098-042-6 P. 69-73; 233
  • Jürgen Scheffler, Stefan Wiesekopsieker, Benjamin Ochse (Autor): Starke Frauen in der Kunst: Künstlerinnen im Aufbruch zur Moderne, Exhibtion Catalouge, Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 2018; ISBN 373951079X P. 115-121

References

  1. ↑ "Authors index: Maria Römer-Krusemeyer". Literatur Portal Westfalen. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  2. ↑ "University Staff directory". University FU Berlin. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  3. ↑ "Profile: Hildegard Ochse Estate: Photographer". Augsburg, Germany: Der Greif, retrieved online August 27, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Online Artis Index: Hildegard Ochse". Berlinische Gallery. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  5. ↑ "Profile: Hildegard Ochse Estate: Photographer", Der Greif.
  6. ↑ "Hildegard Ochse (1935 – 1997). Das Vermächtnis einer Autorenfotografin". Haus am Kleistpark. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  7. ↑ "WENDEZEIT 1989 - 1991". German State Parliament Brandenburg. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  8. ↑ "Between Her Own Viewpoint and Authentic Reality The Photographic Oeuvre of Hildegard Ochse". Kommunale Gallerie. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  9. ↑ "Kreuzberg – Amerika Werkstatt für Photographie 1976–1986". C/O Berlin. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  10. ↑ "A Different Kind of Protest". Aperture. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  11. ↑ Barbara Köppe, Fotografien 1988 - 1990, Hildegard Ochse, Metamorphosen 1990: Galerie "Inselstrasse 13", 17. Oktober bis 9. November 1991. Berlin: Galerie Inselstr. 13. 1991.

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