Günter Rössler - Mein Leben in vielen Akten - 2005

WONDERFUL WORK AND LIFE OVERVIEW by Günter Rössler (1926-2012) -
one of most famous photographers from East Germany and the most famous one for nude photography.

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Das Neue Berlin, Berlin. 2005. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover with dustjacket. 224 x 226 cm. 153 pages. Photos: Günter Rössler. Text in German.

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"Günter Rössler (1926-2012) was a German photographer who made a name for himself particularly in the field of artistic nude photography.
Günter Rössler began an apprenticeship as a photographer in 1946 and studied at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig from 1947 to 1950. From 1951, he worked as a freelance fashion, reportage and advertising photographer. In the 1960s, he focussed on nude photography and was one of the pioneers of this genre in the GDR.
From 1954 to 1990, he worked mainly for GDR fashion magazines such as Modische Maschen (from 1967 photos and graphic design) and Sibylle (from 1962) as well as the monthly magazine Das Magazin and in photo magazines such as Fotografie and Fotokino-Magazin. He took advertising photos for the GDR fur industry Interpelz, trade magazine Putz und Pelz, later Brühl.
He was co-initiator of the first nude plein air in Höfgen (Grimma) in 1979. His first nude exhibition - in 1979 at the Kunsthaus Grimma - caused a sensation in the GDR. His subsequent exhibitions were also crowd-pullers. As his photos were considered ‘not offensive’, the exhibitions were also visited by school classes. Simplicity and abstraction in black and white make his photos appear almost sculptural; the great naturalness of his models was part of the concept of his nude photography.
In 1981, Rössler was accepted into the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR. In 1996 he was appointed to the German Society for Photography.
Günter Rössler began an apprenticeship as a photographer in 1946 and studied at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig from 1947 to 1950. From 1951, he worked as a freelance fashion, reportage and advertising photographer. In the 1960s, he focussed on nude photography and was one of the pioneers of this genre in the GDR.
In 1984, Playboy printed a ten-page article with photos by Günter Rössler under the title Mädchen der DDR (Girls of the GDR). The reportage was honoured by Playboy with 10,000 DM, of which he received only 15%, as was customary in the GDR.
Alongside Günter Rinnhofer, he was one of the few photographers to be featured almost every month for decades in the magazines Fotokino-Magazin and Fotografie. He worked mainly in black and white and only in analogue.
An interview and photos appeared in the magazine Das Magazin in 2011.
Rössler was married twice. His first wife Ruth died of cancer in 1991. His second marriage was to his former model Kirsten Schlegel. The two had met when Schlegel was 14 years old. She first worked for him as a model for fashion shoots and then as an assistant. They had a daughter together (born 2003).
Rössler lived in Markkleeberg-Ost near Leipzig for more than 50 years.
His mortal remains were buried in an urn at the Markkleeberg Auenfriedhof cemetery on 11 January 2013."
(Wikipedia)