From famous persons of the pre-photographic time, there are usually only a few - mostly idealised - portraits. Through photography portraits became naturalistic and thus - supposedly - more real. However, a photographic portrait depicts the person in question only at a certain moment. With the development of mass media and the Internet, countless photos of famous people are available today. They show the person in different situations at different times. Now the question arises, which portrait depicts the respective person most clearly, since they each originate in a certain situation.


The portraits of the series Collective Memories are an attempt to give famous people a clearer face. For this 10-30 frontal recorded photos of each person are loaded from the Internet (determined by Google image search), scaled and digitally superimposed.


The Collective Memories series focuses on individuals who have had and have a significant impact on world affairs and society since World War II.

collective memories  /  the good the bad and the ugly    2017 - ongoing

digital images  /  prints 70 x 70 cm

in order of date of birth

(number of images)


Mahatma Gandhi (8)

Winston Churchill (20)

Albert Schweitzer (20)

Aleister Crowley (20)

Konrad Adenauer (25)

Albert Einstein (15)

Josef Stalin (15)

George C Marshall (20)

Gabrielle Chanel (25)

Harry S. Truman (20)

David Ben Gurion (20)

Ho Chi Minh (10)

Dwight D Eisenhower (25)

Charles De Gaulle (20)

Josip Bros Tito (10)

Haile Selassie (30)

Francisco Franco (15)

Walter Ulbricht (15)

Mao Zedong (15)

Nikita Khrushchev (15)

Swami Prabhupada (39)

Tenno Hirohito (20)

Ruhollah Chomeini (20)

John von Neumann (10)

Robert Oppenheimer (20)

Albert Hofmann (20)

Leonid Bresznev (20)

Sergei Korolev (20)

Edward Teller (20)

Salvador Allende (30)

Joseph McCarthy (20)

Bernhard Grzimek (30)

Jaques Cousteau (30)

Konrad Zuse (15)

Mother Teresa (20)

Ronald Reagan (20)

Wernher von Braun (20)

Kim Il Sung (10)

Erich Honecker (20)

Richard Nixon (25)

Rosa Parks (20)

Willy Brandt (20)

Juri Andropov (15)

Augusto Pinochet (20)

Francois Mitterrand (25)

John F. Kennedy (20)

Indira Gandhi (20)

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (25)

Nicolae Ceaucescu (25)

Nelson Mandela (20)

Beate Uhse (20)

Mohammad-Reza-Pahlavi (20)

John Paul II (20)

Timothy Leary (25)

Andrej Sacharov (15)

Mohamed Suharto (25)

Jitzchak Rabin (20)

Jaques Piccard (20)

Henry Kissinger (20)

Robert Mugabe (20)

George Bush (20)

Malcolm X (25)

Margaret Thatcher (25)

Queen Elizabeth II (20)

David Attenborough (30)

Marilyn Monroe (30)

Fidel Castro (30)

Benedikt XVI (30)

Husani Mubarak (30)

Martin Luther King (20)

Yasser Arafat (20)

Helmut Kohl (30)

Neil Armstrong (20)

George Soros (30)

Warren Buffett (30)

Mobutu Sese Seko (20)

Michail Gorbatchow (20)

Rupert Murdoch (25)

Dian Fossey (15)

Jaques Chirac (30)

Ruth Bader-Ginsburg (30)

Arno Penzias (20)

Tenno Akihito (20)

Yuri Gagarin (20)

Brigitte Bardot (30)

Carl Sagan (30)

Charles Manson (20

Jose Munjica (30)

Dalai Lama (30)

Silvio Berlusconi (30)

Mahmud Abass (25)

Robert W. Wilson (20)

Franciscus (30)

Saddam Hussein (25)

Kofi Annan (29)

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (30)

Stanislav Petrov (15)

Slobodan Milosevic (20)

Stephen Hawking (20)

Muhammed Ali (30)

Kim Jong Il (15)

Mummar al-Gaddafi (20)

Alice Schwarzer (30)

Vinton G. Cerf (30)

Lech Walesa (20)

Reinhold Messner (30)

Aung San Suu Kyi (25)

Donald Trump (30)

George W. Bush (30)

Bill Clinton (30)

Steven Spielberg (30)

Hassan Rohani (30)

Alan Garcia (30)

Jaroslav Kaczinski (25)

Benjamin Netanjahu (30)

Pablo Escobar (20)

Vladimir Putin (30)

Tony Blair (20)

Xi Jinping (30)

Benazir Bhutto (25)

Oprah Winfrey (30)

Recep Tayyip Erdogan (30)

Angela Merkel (30)

Aljaksandr Lukaschenka (30)

Jean-Claude Juncker (30)

Steve Jobs (20)

Shoko Asahara (15)

Tim Berners-Lee (30)

Bill Gates (25)

Christine Lagarde (30)

Teresa May (30)

Osama Bin Laden (20)

Barack Obama (30)

Victor Orban (30)

Jeff Bezos (30)

Borris Johnson (30)

Bashar al-Assad (20)

David Cameron (30)

Matthias Rust (10)

James Le Mesurier (10)

Elon Musk (30)

Julian Assange (25)

Larry Page (30)

Kim Schmitz (30)

Emmanuel Macron (30)

Anders Breivik (25)

Edward Snowden (20)

Kim Jong Un (20)

Mark Zuckerberg (30)

Mala Yousafzai (30)

Greta Thunberg (30)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           ... to be continued

printed edition


each: 30 x 30 cm  //  pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag  //  edition of 25


installation view: „unter 150“, KREIS Gallery Nürnberg DE, 2019/2020

book


1st edition (15)   //   self-published


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