Albrecht Fuchs

Setting or sitting

Albrecht Fuchs, born in Bielefeld in 1964, is a portraitist who works with photography. His method of respectful distance and loving empathy leads to a strange tension in his pictures, despite all the balance and calm in the images. Naturally, the people portrayed look at you openly and seriously in these pictures, which have been created with great care in terms of colour composition and lighting. They want to appear likeable in their own way and are always a little distant. Nevertheless, on closer inspection, one feels that there is an authenticity to the moment that is otherwise denied. With his portraits of Martin Kippenberger, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, John Baldessari, Wolfgang Tillmans, Bruno Brunnet, Isabella Rosselini, Joschka Fischer, Ennio Morricone, to name just a few of the more prominent ones, Albrecht Fuchs is our constant companion in magazines such as art, Monopol or even in newspapers such as the Süddeutsche Zeitung or the FAZ. For the first time, this volume brings together a larger selection of photographs compiled by Albrecht Fuchs, also in their order.