Ingeborg Gerdes
Ingeborg Gerdes | |
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| Born | 1938 |
| Died | June 20, 2020 (aged 81–82) Emeryville, California |
| Known for | photography |
Ingeborg Gerdes (1938 – 20 June 2020) was a German-American photographer.
Early life and education
[edit]Born in Merseburg, Germany in 1938,[1] she earned a degree in economics from Heidelberg University in 1968.[2] She received an MFA degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1970.[2]
Career
[edit]Gerdes began taking photos in the mid 1960s when she had come to the United States with her husband Hartmut Gerdes.[2] She is said to have arrived in San Francisco after a road trip with a bag full of exposed film.[2] Installed in San Francisco, she began to photograph the neighborhoods of Russian Hill and Golden Gate Fields.[2] Within five years of her 1970 graduation from the San Francisco Art Institute, Gerdes was part of the exhibition “Women Photographers: A Historical Survey” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.[2]
Gerdes died on June 20, 2020, in Emeryville, California.[2] She is buried in Berlin, Germany.
Collections
[edit]- Cantor Arts Center[3]
- Harvard Art Museums[4]
- Norton Simon Museum[5]
- Oakland Museum[6]
- Portland Art Museum[7]
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art[8]
- Smithsonian American Art Museum[1]
- Museum of Modern Art, New York
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Ingeborg Gerdes | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu.
- ^ a b c d e f g Whiting, Sam. "Photographer Ingeborg Gerdes, documentarian of the West, dead at 81". Datebook | San Francisco Arts & Entertainment Guide.
- ^ Center, Cantor Arts. "Cantor Arts Center - Calat Alhambra". cantorcollection.stanford.edu.
- ^ "Harvard Art Museums". harvardartmuseums.org.
- ^ "Untitled (Man and Auto) » Norton Simon Museum". www.nortonsimon.org.
- ^ "Film still, Luminous Procuress, from scanned transparency. Photograph by Ingeborg Gerdes.jpg | Oakland Museum of California". museumca.org.
- ^ "Ingeborg Gerdes". portlandartmuseum.us.
- ^ "Gerdes, Ingeborg · SFMOMA". SFMOMA.
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