Manfred-Michael Sackmann

Manfred-Michael Sackmann (* 27 July 1952 in Seesen; † 20 February 2024) was a German photographer.
==Life==
Sackmann grew up in Salzgitter. He began taking photographs at the age of 19. He moved to West Berlin in 1975. From 1978 to 1982 he trained at the Werkstatt für Photographie with Ulrich Görlich. He has been a member of the Berlin Artists' Association since 1992. In 1994 he was appointed to the German Society for Photography (DGPh).Michael Koetzle, Manfred-Michael Sackmann. In: The nude photograph. Aesthetics History Ideology. Berlin/Lucerne 1985, p. 432. Sackmann lived and worked in Berlin-Steglitz and Berlin-Neukölln.Werkstatt für Photographie der VHS Kreuzberg (ed.): Arbeiten 83. Berlin 1984, p. 78 ff.
==Work==
Man as a cultural and social actor is the predominant theme of Sackmann's work. Outsiders in society in particular were at the centre of his interest early on. Since the late 1970s, he has produced photo series of gay bars and "fag balls". Since the 1980s, he has also produced documentary series of vernissages and "beauty pageants". Sackmann also works in the studio,Volker Mann: Im Spiel der Sinne. Exhibition at the Verein Berliner Künstler: Manfred-Michael Sackmann seeks excitement in the details. In: Das Magazin. Issue 4, 992, pp. 31-35, where he devotes himself in particular to nude and portrait photography.Michael Koetzle: Manfred-Michael Sackmann. In: ZOOM. 7-8/1983, pp. 74-79.
In the 1980s and 1990s in particular, he created internationally acclaimed portrait series of personalities from contemporary history in various collaborations, including Leni Riefenstahl, Joseph Beuys, A. R. Penck, Helmut Newton, Markus Lüpertz, Andy Warhol, Wolf Vostell, Hans-Olaf Henkel, Klaus Töpfer, Birgit Breuel and Detlev Rohwedder.Past Auction. Retrieved 7 July 2022Leica World: Leni Riefenstahl - Bis zur Besessenheit. Volume 2/2000: p. 25/27Past Auction. Retrieved 7 July 2022Manfred-Michael Sackmann. Retrieved 17 September 2019
Sackmann has contributed numerous photo articles to various trade journals and magazines, including in European Photography, Fotografie, KULTur, Der Spiegel, Tip, Zeitmagazin, Zitty and ZOOM.Werkstatt für Photographie der VHS Kreuzberg (publisher): Arbeiten 83.' Berlin 1984, p. 78 ff. Sackmann's photo documentaries on the social effects of the immunodeficiency disease Aids in the 1980s met with great interest. He popularised the slogan "Don't give AIDS a chance!" internationally through his documentaries. Der Spiegel No. 33/1985: p. 154Der Spiegel No. 45/1984: p. 111Der Spiegel No. 29/1984: p. 130/131Der Spiegel No. 37/1983: p. 156
==Reception of non-European art==
From the early 1990s, Sackmann began to focus intensively on the aesthetics of non-European art. Apart from building up his own extensive private collection, he also produced detailed pictorial documentation, particularly on African art. Masterpieces of non-European art from Sackmann's collection have found their way into various international museums. Collaborations in connection with the reception of non-European cultures have resulted, among others, with the ethnologist Nils Seethaler, the gallery owner Rudolf SpringerMichael Nungesser/Irena Nalepa (editors): Kult, Magie und Abstraktion. African tribal art and paintings by Hamid Sadighi Neiriz. Exhibition 26.10.2001-17.02.2002 Zitadelle Spandau. S. 143-207. and the Samurai Museum Berlin.Samurai Art Museum in Zehlendorf. Retrieved 20 September 2019
==Group and solo exhibitions in public museums (selection)==
* 1982: Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
* 1990: Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
* 1991: Altes Museum, Berlin
* 1995: Erotic Museum, Berlin
* 1997: Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin
* 1999: Residenzschloss Arolsen, Bad Arolsen
* 1998: Ostbahnhof Cultural Centre, Graz
* 1999: Municipal Gallery, Erlangen
* 2000: Stadtgalerie Hofheim, Hofheim/Taunus
* 2004: Ephraim-Palais, Berlin
* 2004: Gallery City Hall, Oslo
* 2019: GISELA - Free Art Space Lichtenberg: Fall of the Wall, Berlin
==Public collections (selection)==
Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst: Stadtfotografie Berlin. 2nd edition, Berlin 1989, p. 130.
* Berlinische Galerie
* Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
* Munich Stadtmuseum
* Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
* Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
* Museum of Photography, Berlin and Helmut Newton Foundation
==Literature==
* Heiko Sievers/Gabriele Muschter. Berlin, November 1989. 14 photographers from East and West experience the opening of the Wall. An exhibition of the Goethe Institute and the Senate of Berlin. 1990
* Workshop for Photography of the VHS Kreuzberg. Works 81. Berlin 1982.
* Arnika Große: Aktionale. The naked being. An exhibition at the Verein Berliner Künstler. Berlin 2010
* Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office Cornelia Pieper/Embassy of the Republic of Poland (publisher): korespondenja/korrespondenz. Opole Czerwiec/Berlin 2010
* Barbara Harding: The "Arts of Asia" Conversation with Peter Janssen of the Samurai Art Museum (Photographs by Manfred M. Sackmann). In: Arts of Asia. July/August 2019, pp. 22-32.
Category:1952 births
Category:2024 deaths
Category:German photographers
Category:German people