Ingeborg Gerdes

Ingeborg Gerdes
Born1938 (1938)
Merseburg, Germany
DiedJune 20, 2020(2020-06-20) (aged 81–82)
Emeryville, California
Known forphotography

Ingeborg Gerdes (1938 – 20 June 2020) was a German-American photographer.

Early life and education

Born in Merseburg, Germany in 1938,[1] she earned a degree in economics from Heidelberg University in 1968.[2] She received an MFA degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1970.[2]

Career

Gerdes began taking photos in the mid 1960s when she had come to the United States with her husband Hartmut Gerdes.[2] She is said to have arrived in San Francisco after a road trip with a bag full of exposed film.[2] Installed in San Francisco, she began to photograph the neighborhoods of Russian Hill and Golden Gate Fields.[2] Within five years of her 1970 graduation from the San Francisco Art Institute, Gerdes was part of the exhibition “Women Photographers: A Historical Survey” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.[2]

Gerdes died on June 20, 2020, in Emeryville, California.[2] She is buried in Berlin, Germany.

Collections

References

  1. ^ a b "Ingeborg Gerdes | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Whiting, Sam. "Photographer Ingeborg Gerdes, documentarian of the West, dead at 81". Datebook | San Francisco Arts & Entertainment Guide.
  3. ^ Center, Cantor Arts. "Cantor Arts Center - Calat Alhambra". cantorcollection.stanford.edu.
  4. ^ "Harvard Art Museums". harvardartmuseums.org.
  5. ^ "Untitled (Man and Auto) » Norton Simon Museum". www.nortonsimon.org.
  6. ^ "Film still, Luminous Procuress, from scanned transparency. Photograph by Ingeborg Gerdes.jpg | Oakland Museum of California". museumca.org.
  7. ^ "Ingeborg Gerdes". portlandartmuseum.us.
  8. ^ "Gerdes, Ingeborg · SFMOMA". SFMOMA.