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Floris Neusüss was born in Lennep, Germany, on 3 March 1937. He began as a painter the took up photography which he studied at the Wuppertal School of Arts and Crafts in [[North Rhine-Westphalia]], before continuing at the Bavarian State Institute of Photography in [[Munich]]. He trained alongside photographer [[Heinz Hajek-Halke]] at the [[Berlin University of the Arts]]. In 1957, he began making [[photogram]]s and [[photomontage]]s.
Floris Neusüss was born in Lennep, Germany, on 3 March 1937. He began as a painter the took up photography which he studied at the Wuppertal School of Arts and Crafts in [[North Rhine-Westphalia]], before continuing at the Bavarian State Institute of Photography in [[Munich]]. He trained alongside photographer [[Heinz Hajek-Halke]] at the [[Berlin University of the Arts]]. In 1957, he began making [[photogram]]s and [[photomontage]]s.


His series Körperbilder (whole-body photograms)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Körperbilder {{!}} Neusüss, Floris {{!}} V&A Search the Collections|url=http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1276791|date=2020-05-01|website=V and A Collections|language=en|access-date=2020-05-01}}</ref> set him in the 1960s on a lifelong exploration of conceptual, technical and artistic possibilities of camera-less photography, continued in the 1970s, in his ''nudograms'', silhouettes of nude figures and also life-size portraits and shadowy reproductions of museum sculptures;
His series Körperbilder (whole-body photograms)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Körperbilder {{!}} Neusüss, Floris {{!}} V&A Search the Collections|url=http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1276791|date=2020-05-01|website=V and A Collections|language=en|access-date=2020-05-01}}</ref> set him in the 1960s on a lifelong exploration of conceptual, technical and artistic possibilities of camera-less photography, continued in the 1970s, in his ''nudograms'', silhouettes of nude figures and also life-size portraits, including several using his friend and frequent collaborator, [[Robert Heinecken]] as the subject,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Von Lintel Gallery {{!}} Los Angeles ····· Floris Neusüss|url=http://www.vonlintel.com/Floris-Neususs.html|website=www.vonlintel.com|access-date=2020-05-01}}</ref> and shadowy reproductions of museum sculptures, such as those of Greek statues from the Glypothek Museum in Munich;<ref>{{Cite web|title=Aesthetica Magazine - Floris Neusüss: Ancient and Modern, London|url=https://aestheticamagazine.com/floris-neususs-ancient-and-modern-londo/|website=Aesthetica Magazine|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-05-01}}</ref>
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He also founded the publisher ''Fotoforum'' in [[Kassel, Germany|Cassel]]. In 1982 and 1985, Nesüss exhibited works which displayed the maladies of pollution, which aroused strong reactions. In the early 1980s, he exhibited ''Artificial Landscapes'', chemical works of abstract art that resembles small buildings on a horizon.<ref>{{cite book |last=|first= |date=|title=La photographie du xxe siècle - Museum Ludwig Cologne|trans-title= |url= |language=French|location=Cologne|publisher=Taschen|isbn=9783836507790}}</ref>

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He also founded the publisher ''Fotoforum'' in [[Kassel, Germany|Cassel]]. In 1982 and 1985, Nesüss exhibited works which displayed the maladies of pollution, which aroused strong reactions.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}} In the early 1980s, he exhibited ''Artificial Landscapes'', chemical works of abstract art that resembles small buildings on a horizon.<ref>{{cite book |last=|first= |date=|title=La photographie du xxe siècle - Museum Ludwig Cologne|trans-title= |url= |language=French|location=Cologne|publisher=Taschen|isbn=9783836507790}}</ref>


In 1986, he began designing Nachtbilder ('nocturnal pictures'), photographs taken outside at night and produced by placing photo paper emulsion side down into a woodland or garden at night during a thunderstorm during which it might be tumbled about by the wind and exposed why lightning. At [[Lacock Abbey]] in Wiltshire, England, in 2010 Neusüss made a photogram in collaboration with his wife Renate Heyne, also an artist, of the window that formed the subject of [[Henry Fox Talbot|William Henry Fox Talbot]]'s first photographic negative, made there in 1835.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Camera-less photography: artists|url=http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/c/camera-less-photography-artists/|last=Victoria and Albert Museum|first=Digital Media webmaster@vam ac uk|date=2011-06-09|website=www.vam.ac.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-05-01}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=The Latticed Window, Lacock Abbey {{!}} Neusüss, Floris {{!}} V&A Search the Collections|url=http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1240232|date=2020-05-01|website=V and A Collections|language=en|access-date=2020-05-01}}</ref> The work was presented in ''Shadow Catchers'', 13 October 2010 - 20 February 2011 at the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]], London.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Davies|first=Lucy|date=2010-10-08|title=Floris Neususs: Interview|language=en-GB|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/8051406/Floris-Neususs-Interview.html|access-date=2020-05-01|issn=0307-1235}}</ref> Curator of the show Martin Barnes described Neusüss' work as “a poetic dialogue between presence and absence”.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Barnes, Martin, 1971-|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/587117537|title=Shadow catchers : camera-less photography|date=2010|publisher=V & A|others=Neusüss, Floris Michael., Cordier, Pierre, 1933-, Derges, Susan, 1955-, Fabian Miller, Garry, 1957-, Fuss, Adam, 1961-, Victoria and Albert Museum.|isbn=978-1-85894-538-5|location=London|oclc=587117537}}</ref>
In 1986, he began designing Nachtbilder ('nocturnal pictures'), photographs taken outside at night and produced by placing photo paper emulsion side down into a woodland or garden at night during a thunderstorm during which it might be tumbled about by the wind and exposed why lightning. At [[Lacock Abbey]] in Wiltshire, England, in 2010 Neusüss made a photogram in collaboration with his wife Renate Heyne, also an artist, of the window that formed the subject of [[Henry Fox Talbot|William Henry Fox Talbot]]'s first photographic negative, made there in 1835.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Camera-less photography: artists|url=http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/c/camera-less-photography-artists/|last=Victoria and Albert Museum|first=Digital Media webmaster@vam ac uk|date=2011-06-09|website=www.vam.ac.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-05-01}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=The Latticed Window, Lacock Abbey {{!}} Neusüss, Floris {{!}} V&A Search the Collections|url=http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1240232|date=2020-05-01|website=V and A Collections|language=en|access-date=2020-05-01}}</ref> The work was presented in ''Shadow Catchers'', 13 October 2010 - 20 February 2011 at the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]], London.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Davies|first=Lucy|date=2010-10-08|title=Floris Neususs: Interview|language=en-GB|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/8051406/Floris-Neususs-Interview.html|access-date=2020-05-01|issn=0307-1235}}</ref> Curator of the show Martin Barnes described Neusüss' work as “a poetic dialogue between presence and absence”.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Barnes, Martin, 1971-|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/587117537|title=Shadow catchers : camera-less photography|date=2010|publisher=V & A|others=Neusüss, Floris Michael., Cordier, Pierre, 1933-, Derges, Susan, 1955-, Fabian Miller, Garry, 1957-, Fuss, Adam, 1961-, Victoria and Albert Museum.|isbn=978-1-85894-538-5|location=London|oclc=587117537}}</ref>


== Legacy ==
Through this work, Nesüss established himself as one of the leaders in experimental photography.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.antiquesandthearts.com/the-light-show-at-the-denver-art-museum/|title=The Light Show At The Denver Art Museum|date=11 June 2019|work=Antiques & The Arts Weekly}}</ref>
Through this work, Nesüss established himself as one of the leaders in experimental photography.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.antiquesandthearts.com/the-light-show-at-the-denver-art-museum/|title=The Light Show At The Denver Art Museum|date=11 June 2019|work=Antiques & The Arts Weekly}}</ref> His teaching as Professor of Experimental Photography at the [[University of Kassel]], a post he had held since 1971, was influential.<ref name=":0" />


Neusüss died in 2020 and his photograms are currently held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Floris Neusüss, Photographer Who Captured Ghostly Presences Without a Camera, Is Dead at 83|url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/floris-neususs-dead-1202683738/|last=Greenberger|first=Alex|last2=Greenberger|first2=Alex|date=2020-04-13|website=ARTnews.com|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-01}}</ref>
Neusüss died in 2020 and his photograms are currently held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Getty Museum in Los Angeles;<ref>{{Cite web|title=Floris Neusüss, Photographer Who Captured Ghostly Presences Without a Camera, Is Dead at 83|url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/floris-neususs-dead-1202683738/|last=Greenberger|first=Alex|last2=Greenberger|first2=Alex|date=2020-04-13|website=ARTnews.com|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-01}}</ref> the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.<ref name=":0" /> There are several monographs published on his work.


==References==
==References==

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Floris Michael Nesüss
Born3 March 1937
Remscheid, Germany
Died1 April 2020(2020-04-01) (aged 83)
Cassel, Germany
NationalityGerman
OccupationPhotographer

Floris Michael Nesüss (3 March 1937 – 1 April 2020) was a German photographer.[1]

Biography

Floris Neusüss was born in Lennep, Germany, on 3 March 1937. He began as a painter the took up photography which he studied at the Wuppertal School of Arts and Crafts in North Rhine-Westphalia, before continuing at the Bavarian State Institute of Photography in Munich. He trained alongside photographer Heinz Hajek-Halke at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 1957, he began making photograms and photomontages.

His series Körperbilder (whole-body photograms)[2] set him in the 1960s on a lifelong exploration of conceptual, technical and artistic possibilities of camera-less photography, continued in the 1970s, in his nudograms, silhouettes of nude figures and also life-size portraits, including several using his friend and frequent collaborator, Robert Heinecken as the subject,[3] and shadowy reproductions of museum sculptures, such as those of Greek statues from the Glypothek Museum in Munich;[4]

“It is true that the subject resting on the photo-sensitive paper presents its reverse side to be recorded, the side that is in shadow, the shadow cast by the object itself. This intimate physical connection inscribes into the paper, and this, if you are open to it, is the real fascination of photograms: the tension between the hidden and the revealed.”[5]

He also founded the publisher Fotoforum in Cassel. In 1982 and 1985, Nesüss exhibited works which displayed the maladies of pollution, which aroused strong reactions.[citation needed] In the early 1980s, he exhibited Artificial Landscapes, chemical works of abstract art that resembles small buildings on a horizon.[6]

In 1986, he began designing Nachtbilder ('nocturnal pictures'), photographs taken outside at night and produced by placing photo paper emulsion side down into a woodland or garden at night during a thunderstorm during which it might be tumbled about by the wind and exposed why lightning. At Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire, England, in 2010 Neusüss made a photogram in collaboration with his wife Renate Heyne, also an artist, of the window that formed the subject of William Henry Fox Talbot's first photographic negative, made there in 1835.[7][8] The work was presented in Shadow Catchers, 13 October 2010 - 20 February 2011 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.[9] Curator of the show Martin Barnes described Neusüss' work as “a poetic dialogue between presence and absence”.[10]

Legacy

Through this work, Nesüss established himself as one of the leaders in experimental photography.[11] His teaching as Professor of Experimental Photography at the University of Kassel, a post he had held since 1971, was influential.[3]

Neusüss died in 2020 and his photograms are currently held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Getty Museum in Los Angeles;[12] the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.[3] There are several monographs published on his work.

References

  1. ^ "Florian Neusüss : Traueranzeige". Frankfurter Allgemeine Lebenswege (in German). 8 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Körperbilder | Neusüss, Floris | V&A Search the Collections". V and A Collections. 2020-05-01. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  3. ^ a b c "Von Lintel Gallery | Los Angeles ····· Floris Neusüss". www.vonlintel.com. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  4. ^ "Aesthetica Magazine - Floris Neusüss: Ancient and Modern, London". Aesthetica Magazine. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  5. ^ "Floris Neusüss | artnet". www.artnet.com. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  6. ^ La photographie du xxe siècle - Museum Ludwig Cologne (in French). Cologne: Taschen. ISBN 9783836507790.
  7. ^ Victoria and Albert Museum, Digital Media webmaster@vam ac uk (2011-06-09). "Camera-less photography: artists". www.vam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  8. ^ "The Latticed Window, Lacock Abbey | Neusüss, Floris | V&A Search the Collections". V and A Collections. 2020-05-01. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  9. ^ Davies, Lucy (2010-10-08). "Floris Neususs: Interview". ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  10. ^ Barnes, Martin, 1971- (2010). Shadow catchers : camera-less photography. Neusüss, Floris Michael., Cordier, Pierre, 1933-, Derges, Susan, 1955-, Fabian Miller, Garry, 1957-, Fuss, Adam, 1961-, Victoria and Albert Museum. London: V & A. ISBN 978-1-85894-538-5. OCLC 587117537.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ "The Light Show At The Denver Art Museum". Antiques & The Arts Weekly. 11 June 2019.
  12. ^ Greenberger, Alex; Greenberger, Alex (2020-04-13). "Floris Neusüss, Photographer Who Captured Ghostly Presences Without a Camera, Is Dead at 83". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
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