Friedl Kubelka was born on 1946 and is an Austrian photographer, filmmaker and visual artist born in London, England in 1946.
13 Facts About Friedl Kubelka
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Friedl Kubelka was born in London, England as Friedl Bondy, she then relocated with her family to East Berlin and later to Vienna, where she spent most of her childhood.
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Friedl Kubelka's parents were forced to leave Austria due to their political views.
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Friedl Kubelka began taking photographs at the age of twelve after receiving a box camera as a gift from her father in 1958.
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From 1965 to 1969, Friedl Kubelka began making her first films at the Graphic Instruction and Research Institute in Vienna.
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In 1972, Friedl Kubelka began taking photographs of herself wearing high-end lingerie.
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Between 1972 and 1983, Friedl Kubelka created her One Year Self-Portrait series, during which she would photograph herself daily over one-year spans and then mount the photos together on large sheets of paper.
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Friedl Kubelka began photographing her daughter during the first week of her life and continued until Louise turned eighteen, amounting to a series of 793 photographs on eighteen boards.
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Friedl Kubelka titled the series Lebensportrait Louise Anna Friedl Kubelka.
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In 1980, Friedl Kubelka began a similar series of portraits of her mother, Lore Bondy, which she titled One Thousand Changing Thoughts.
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Friedl Kubelka was awarded the Grand Austrian State Prize for Artistic Photography, Austria's most prestigious photography award in 2005, along with the Austrian State Prize for film in 2016.
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Friedl Kubelka has had solo exhibitions at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Fotogalerie in Vienna and the Netherlands Photo Museum in Rotterdam.
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Friedl Kubelka then changed her name to Friedl vom Groller but does not consistently use her married name.