Franz Huempfner

" One eye of the photographer looks wide open into the viewfinder, the other closed, into his own soul." (Henri Cartier-Bresson)

Franz Hümpfner is a well-known photographer. For over 50 years now, he has been searching for artistic forms of expression in painting and photography. It is important to him to use art to penetrate spaces of consciousness beyond the possibilities of linguistic expression. Thus, it has always been his concern to convey the reality hidden behind the visible world through his photographs. For him, a camera is a tool of his artistic work, similar to the way a painter creates his works with brush and paint.

He uses both analogue and digital techniques. "A photograph requires the feel of paper," he says, adding that "the ephemeral representation on the screen cannot convey the sensual quality of a photograph print." He also creates Zen or Wabisabi photographs, which are particularly good at expressing themes such as the beauty, transience and imperfection of all that exists through their simplicity. In his book "Photoartfolio 1 - Wabi Sabi Photography" he also treated theoretically this type of photography.

According to Franz Hümpfner, an open edition print has the same artistic quality as a limited editio...

1972 - 1975 Teacher training and studies in art education at the University of Applied Sciences in Bamberg
Since 1965 autodidactic training and further education in painting and artistic photography

1992 Solo exhibition at the Dokumenta Archive Kassel: "Die documenta 9 - fotografiert von Franz Hümpfner".
1992 Solo exhibition at the Kunststation Kleinsassen: "The documenta 9 - photographed by Franz Hümpfner" and "Transient".
1995 Group exhibition at the Kleinsassen Art Station
1996 Group exhibition at the Kleinsassen Art Station
1998 Group exhibition at the Kleinsassen Art Station
1995-1998 Art Station Kleinsassen: Head of the workshops "Artistic Photography