Horst-Peter Zeinert

Biographical NotesLit. Kuerschners Handbuch der Bildenden Kuenstler,K.G.Saur, Muenchen, Leipzig, 2005, 20071937 born in Berlin1957-1961 studies of Fine Artsat State Academies in Berlin and Karlsruhe (Germany)1970-1980 lectures and seminars at Berlin Academy of Fine Arts1974 first experiments in photo-paintingSince 1981 exhibitions in Germany and abroadPublications (magazines)Represented in museum photo collectionsCertificate of Excellence in photography (N.Y.)HORST-PETER ZEINERT: ON HIS PHOTOGRAPHSHis photographs are not modelled on or derived from the work of others: they are aesthetic experiments, having roots neither in documentary photography nor in traditional forms of the so-called "artistic-photo". Through them he tries to produce complementary aspects of reality. We are accustomed to look at and react to images in a conventional way and are also limited by the biological laws of sight: therefore we often miss alternative perspectives. Zeinert's concern is to influence and broaden the quality of perception, thus his photographs are objects for reflection and contemplation. The imagery on which he draws is derived from nature and our daily life and his motifs do not focus on a single object but rather its origin, location and...