1. Lothar Osterburg was born on 1961 and is a German-born, New York-based artist and master printer in intaglio, who works in sculpture, photography, printmaking and video.
16 Facts About Lothar Osterburg
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Lothar Osterburg is best known for photogravures featuring rough small-scale models of rustic structures, water and air vessels, and imaginary cities, staged in evocative settings and photographed to appear life-size to disorienting, mysterious or whimsical effect.
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Lothar Osterburg has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and New York Foundation for the Arts, and his work has been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Library of Congress and Art Institute of Chicago, among others.
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Lothar Osterburg has exhibited at the International Print Center New York, Peruvian North American Cultural Institute, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and Center for Photography at Woodstock.
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Lothar Osterburg exhibited at Southern Exposure and the Show n' Tell and Hatley Martin galleries, as well as shows in Germany, Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines.
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In 1993, Lothar Osterburg started his own print studio specializing in photogravure, which he moved to New York City in 1994.
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Since moving to New York, Lothar Osterburg has exhibited at Takara Gallery, Moeller Fine Art, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Fitchburg Art Museum, Lesley Heller Gallery, and Rockland Center for the Arts, CPW and ICPNA, among others.
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Lothar Osterburg has been a member of the Studio Art faculty of Bard College since 1998, and taught printmaking at Cooper Union, Pratt Institute, Columbia University and Lacoste School of the Arts in France.
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Lothar Osterburg has conducted photogravure workshops at art programs and institutions throughout the United States.
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Lothar Osterburg's work combines the authority of photography with fanciful, rough models and real outdoor settings to create images suspended between real, imaginary and lost that obscure scale and period.
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Lothar Osterburg is a leading teacher and practitioner of photogravure, a 19th-century intaglio process combining printmaking and early photography techniques that was developed by Henry Fox Talbot and Karel Klic and has remained largely unchanged and little-used.
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Lothar Osterburg expanded into new media through collaborations with his wife, composer Elizabeth Brown, beginning in 2003.
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Lothar Osterburg extended these themes with "Yesterday's Cities of Tomorrow," seeking to capture the mythical, longed for, and sometimes fantastical New York City imagined by Ellis Island immigrants or encountered in old books and movies.
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Lothar Osterburg has been recognized with fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and New York Foundation for the Arts and awards from the International Fine Print Dealer's Association, American Academy of Arts and Letters, and AEV Foundation, among others.
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Lothar Osterburg has received artist residencies from Cill Rialaig, Navigation Press, the Bogliasco Foundation, Hui No'eau Arts Center, MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
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Lothar Osterburg's work belongs to the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Library of Congress, New York Public Library, The Art Institute of Chicago, The British Museum, the China Printmaking Museum, Chazen Museum of Art, the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Spencer Museum of Art, among others.