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Albert Steiner: Das Fotografische Werk
Albert Steiner. L'opera fotografica |
Albert Steiner: The Photographic Work
Albert Steiner belongs to the most important Swiss photographers
of the 20ieth century. His photos of the Engadin
/ Engadine Valley landscape are unique even in
international comparison. They have greatly contributed
to the way Switzerland as an alpine landscape of Arcadian
beauty is perceived. Inspired by painters such as Giovanni
Segantini and Ferdinand Hodler, Steiner created pictures,
which also express a profound religious worship of nature.
Albert Steiner hardly ever received the appreciation he
deserves.
Albert Steiner was one of the outstanding
Swiss photographers of the 20th century. His impressive
scenic photographs have fundamentally shaped our perception
of Switzerland as an alpine country of timeless beauty.
Like Ansel Adams, he translated his artistic vision of mountains,
their flora and imposing natural phenomena, onto a black-and-white
surface to reveal nature in all its majesty.
Steiner’s
photographic work spans the period before World War I, with
its pictorially inspired images that look like oil paintings,
to the straightforward and elegantly modern photography
of the 1930s. Unlike other Swiss photographers of his generation,
Steiner considered himself to be an artist. In contrast
to many of his contemporaries, he saw photography as a completely
appropriate means of creating works of art. |
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