Ursula Schulz-Dornburg (born 1938) is a German photographer and artist known for the conceptual series (mostly black and white) photographs. She lives and works in Düsseldorf.[1]
Schulz-Dornburg received the 2016 AIMIA AGO Photography Prize from the Art Gallery of Ontario[2] and in 2018 won the Catalogue of the Year award at the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards for The Land In Between. Old Masters like Jan van Eyck, Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres coexist with works by some of today's most fascinating modern artists including Gerhard Richter, Chuck Close, and Bridget Riley.
Life and work
Schulz-Dornburg was born in Berlin in 1938. Between 1959 and 1960 she studied at the Institut für Bildjournalismus in Munich.[1] From 1980 onward, she traveled within Europe, Asia and the Near East.
Publications
Architectures of Waiting. Bonn: Goethe-Institut, 2006. With a text by J.Thorn-Prikker.
Reprinted edition. Walther Koenig, 2014. ISBN9783863356743. English and German language text. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Conflict, Time, Photography at Tate Modern, London.
Some Works. Edited and with text by Wolfgang Scheppe. ISBN978-3-7757-3779-1. English and German language text. Box containing objects and materials. Edition of 1500 copies.
1975 Vorhänge am Markusplatz in Venedig mit Katharina Sattler, Gallery Heiner Friedrich, Munich; Gallery Wittrock, Düsseldorf, Germany
1976 Palace Pier, Brighton with Katharina Sattler, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Museum, Krefeld, Germany
1979 Ansichten von Pagan with F. Rudolf Knubel; German Commission for UNESCO, Bonn; Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany
1984-1981 Der Tigris des alten Mesopotamien mit F. Rudolf Knubel, Museum Quadrat Bottrop, Bottrop; Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Wien, Austria; Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany