Matthias Schaller Libros

Between 2004 and 2007, during the pontificates of Pope John Paul II and Benedict XVI, Matthias Schaller photographed the rarely seen offices of the Roman Catholic cardinals inside the Vatican. Using fifteenth century iconography as a model, such as the portrait of cardinal St. Hieronymous by Vittore Carpaccio, Schaller combines Renaissance tradition with the technology and conventions of contemporary art, creating portraits without the sitter. In this absorbing monograph, his subjects are revealed through our entrée into their intimate chambers and through subtle differences of their attendant accessories, forcing the viewer to confront his or her own assumptions about who these men really are.

Matthias Schaller is a retrospective of Schaller’s photography in book form. Presenting all his major bodies of work from the last ten years such as the series “Studio Gursky” (2000), documenting Andreas Gursky’s Düsseldorf studio; “Die Mühle” (2001–02), showing the studio-home of Bernd and Hilla Becher; and “Controfacciata” (2008), colourdrained images of the interiors of Venetian palaces. Including thumbnail images of all these series and a bibliography, this book is the perfect entry-point to Schaller’s oeuvre and a comprehensive summary of it. Matthias Schaller was born in Dillingen/Donau, Germany, in 1965, and today lives in Venice and New York City. Schaller studied cultural anthropology in Göttingen, Hamburg and Siena. He was a DAAD fellow in Rome, and has exhibited internationally in solo shows at institutions including Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Biennale d’Arte in Venice, the Picasso Museum in Münster, and Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro. Steidl has published Schaller’s The Mill (2007), Controfacciata (2008) and Purple Desk (2009).

Andreas Beyer says of artists' workplaces, "Places where important works were created have always been fascinating… one is immediately on the hunt for clues of the persona and the greatness of what has been made there, trying to locate them on the desk, the walls, the chairs, even in the curtains." The Mill documents the living and working spaces of Hilla and Bernd Becher, a former paper mill in Düsseldorf where the couple lived from 1961 to 2003. Matthias Petrus Schaller, (who was born in 1965, well after the Bechers first moved into this space) made these photographs in their last years there, between February 2001 and September 2002.

Die vorliegende Unterweisung nutzt die 4-Stufen-Methode, um das Thema "Richtige und sichere Öffnen eines Kuverts" praxisnah zu vermitteln. Besonders die zweite Stufe wird detailliert behandelt, um den Lernenden eine klare Anleitung zu bieten. Diese didaktische Herangehensweise zielt darauf ab, spezifische Fähigkeiten im kaufmännischen Bereich zu fördern und die Sicherheit im Umgang mit alltäglichen Büroaufgaben zu gewährleisten. Die Arbeit wurde an der Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen verfasst und erhielt die Note 1,5.