Lothar Baumgarten
Lothar Baumgarten (1944-2018) lived and worked in Berlin, Germany, and New York. Baumgarten studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, being taught by Joseph Beuys, among others, participated in the documenta several times and received the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 1984, among numerous other awards. As early as the 1970s, Lothar Baumgarten was concerned with the European view of foreign cultures. Among other things, he traveled to the Amazon region and lived there for 18 months with two Yanomami communities on the upper Orinoco in Venezuela. Particularly impressive alongside Lothar Baumgarten's photographs are his installation works, which have a sensual, haptic effect and at the same time subtly stimulate reflection on global and socio-political issues.
Lothar Baumgarten Editions
Amplitude Versus Time
2009
From Forty Are Better Than One
6-part leporello, digital pigment print (Ditone) on Fiba-Print White Matte paper, 32 x 150 cm (12½ x 59 in). Edition: 75, signed and numbered.
This edition by Lothar Baumgarten was created as part of the group project Forty Are Better Than One: as a special edition of the catalogue raisonné of Edition Schellmann on the occasion of the gallery's 40th anniversary. The print visualizes a recording of various sounds, rhythms and noises from our natural environment.
EUR 800
Matteawan/Fishkill
2003-2009
Portfolio of seven prints (Skia Photography), 90 x 65 cm (35½ x 25½ in), edition of 30, each signed and numbered.
The photographs of this edition by Lothar Baumgarten originate from the creation process of Matteawan/Fishkill Creek, an 80-minute sound recording made one night at Denning’s Point on the Hudson River near Beacon, N.Y. This spit of land was once home to various Native American tribes and later the site of a brick works before it was purchased by New York State in 1988.
EUR 5,000
Frage/Antwort
2009
Published for Kunsthaus Bregenz
Set of two digital pigment prints (Ditone), 68 x 68 cm (26¾ x 26¾ in) each, edition of 30, each signed and numbered.
This edition illustrates negatively and positively a “question” and “answer” from the interview that Christian Rattemeyer conducted with Lothar Baumgarten for the textbook of his exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz, transformed into a mathematical system of signs. The phonetic structure of the conversation takes on the character of a musical score through its translation into an abstract formal figure.
Set EUR 1,200
Sollbruchstelle
1997
Published for Documenta X
Baked enamel, three parts, 37 x 5 x 0,3 cm (14½ x 2 x ¼ in) each. Edition of 60, signed and numbered in lid of box.
In this edition, Lothar Baumgarten uses typographic parentheses to frame contemporary German neologisms such as "Seelenschnupfen" and "Meinungsmensch." The enduring material of the objects stands in ironic contrast to the likely short-lived nature of the inscribed terms, highlighting the tension between linguistic trend and physical permanence.
EUR 600
