Andreas gursky's Role Introduction

German photographer, known as "the first person in contemporary photography". The most expensive single video work "Rhine 2" in the world today comes from his hand. This work was sold at Christie's auction on 20 1 1 for $4.33 million. Christie's believes that this work does not make people feel like a section of the Rhine, but shows the scenery of the whole river through the river. Because his works are expensive, he is also called "super ATM" in Europe and America.

Chinese name: andreas gursky.

Andreas gorski

Nationality: Germany

Place of birth: Leipzig

Date of birth: 1955

Occupation: photographer

Representative work: Rhine 2

all one's life

He grew up in Dusseldorf, and his father was a successful commercial photographer in Dusseldorf. As early as before graduating from high school, andreas gursky mastered the skills of commercial photography. In the late 1970s, he studied in FolkwangSchool near Essen for two years, where there was a training course for professional photographers, especially photojournalists.

In Essen, Gorschi came into contact with the documentary tradition of photography-a rigorous art and observation method, without any decoration. Its careful and objective observation of things is very different from too many human factors in commercial photography.

In the early 1980s, Gorschi entered the National Academy of Fine Arts for further study. JosephBeuys, SigmarPolke Boerder and GerhardRichter, the most important avant-garde artists in Germany after World War II, all came from here. Gorski learned the rules of the art world here, and also learned the rigorous methods of managing art from Bernd and becher, famous contemporary conceptual art and minimalist art photographers.

In the late 1980s, when Gorschi and several other students of Becher were widely recognized by the art world, Gorschi's works were regarded as the inheritance and development of his teachers' artistic ideas.

Gorski is diligent in thinking and brave in innovation, and integrates his knowledge of photography into his works. After more than ten years of continuous exploration and innovation, Gorschi gradually formed a distinctive personal style and became the most dazzling star in German photography. Gorski's works are famous for their large pictures, eye-catching, rich colors and rich details. After entering the 1990s, Gorschi concentrated his creative center on the theme creation that shocked people, reflected the characteristics of the times and represented the spirit of the times.

In order to pursue his goal, Gorsky moved from the streets of Dü sseldorf to a richer and wider world, leaving his footprints in Hongkong, Cairo, new york, Brasilia, Tokyo, Stockholm, Chicago, Singapore, Paris, Los Angeles and Shanghai.

In his early theme creation, Gorschi showed people's holiday leisure and travel life, and factories, residential buildings, restaurants, office buildings and warehouses all entered his lens. The German parliament hall, the trading hall of the international stock exchange market, and the attractive brand-name goods shelves have also become the objects he wants to capture. After entering the 1990s, his works are increasingly developing in the direction of big scenes, fast pace, high consumption and globalization, among which people without names are the least important.

works

Gorski's works reflect the high-tech, large-scale, fast-paced and global world landscape, in which individuals are completely submerged. Rhine 2 is Gorschi's work in 1999. It depicts a path, grass, river and gray sky with no outline at all, and they form an almost perfect horizontal structure. Gorschi also used digital technology to deal with an original factory across the river. When talking about this work, Gorschi said: I am not interested in the unusual or unique landscape of the Rhine, but I am concerned about the most contemporary landscape that it may exist.

Rhine 2 is the second time that Gorschi has set the highest auction price in the world. His work "99 cents" was sold for $3.89 million, which also set a record for the highest price of photographic works in the world at that time.