Discipline: Visual Art – photography

Lothar Osterburg

Discipline: Visual Art – photography
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1996, 1997, 2002
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Lothar Osterburg is a German photographer. His complex photographic procedure gives the results a tonal range of texture and nuance that surpasses normal photographic prints, making the fictitious images seem almost hyper-real, lush, and romantic. Osterburg's work has been exhibited internationally, with presentations at the International Print Center in New York (2009), the Highpoint Center for Printmaking (2006), the Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano in Peru (2010), and the Rockland Arts Center in Nyack, New York (2010). Osterburg has been the recipient of numerous awards, among them the Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (2010), the AEV Foundation Grant (2009), and two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships (2003 and 2009).

Studios

Nef

Lothar Osterburg worked in the Nef studio.

Nef Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and MacDowell Fellow Evelyn Steffanson Nef in 1992. Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds for construction. Mrs. Nef said she had known about MacDowell all her…

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