Dieter Appelt Overview

Dieter Appelt Dieter Appelt has been a Professor of Photography, Film and Video at the Hochschule der Kunst in Berlin since 1982. He studied photography at the Academy of Fine Art in Berlin as well as music at Leipzig and Berlin... [more]

Dieter Appelt Dieter Appelt has been a Professor of Photography, Film and Video at the Hochschule der Kunst in Berlin since 1982. He studied photography at the Academy of Fine Art in Berlin as well as music at Leipzig and Berlin Music Academies. Appelt's work of the late 70's & 80's was typically related to performance art and often incorporated a level of sculptural construction. He began photographing to record his performance in outdoor settings -for some of these performances he built structures out of branches and positioned himself within the construct - a tower roughly crafted of tree branches, a slab cut into the ice, and mud as a protective yet primal second skin. Duration and decay are persistent themes in Appelt's photographs. He often uses exposures that are hours long in an attempt to record the effects of the passage of time. His photographs have been exhibited extensively in Europe since the 1970's. He has had major solo exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Appelt's work has also been acquired by major collections internationally including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Centre George Pompidou, Paris; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California. [show less]