Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
German, b. 1950
Libraries are both shelters and places of escape. It is this feeling that German photographer Reinhard Görner has been exploring for many years, in search of the most beautiful and solemn reading rooms around the world.
Intimate libraries nestled in the heart of secluded abbeys or grandiose halls of prestigious universities, for the German artist, these rooms are an inexhaustible reservoir of inspiration. Let yourself be transported through architectures, styles and eras in this portrait of Reinhard Görner, a self-taught artist with a multifaceted and contagious passion. As an architectural photographer, Reinhard worked for many years for architects before deciding to focus on his passion. His goal is to explore how the great masters of architecture have created spaces that breathe beauty and silence by playing with shadows, light, proportions, rhythms. He quickly discovered that libraries have always been and still are wonderful playgrounds for architects, allowing them to focus on the question of form and emptiness: "I see myself as an ambassador trying to convey the spirit of these builders with my photographic means".
The artist photographed and fell in love with his first library in 2005, as he was working with architect Sir Norman Foster and captured the philological library of Berlin’s Frei Universität. Since then, the cathedral-like atmosphere of New York’s Rose main reading room made a long-lasting impact on the artist and he started to intensify his documentation of libraries across the world. Görner’s photographs seek to convey the impact architecture has on our awareness of life : the libraries he captures open spaces, tell stories and refer to a time when one’s sense of aestethics and sense of space were identical. Görner’s photos refer to the vastness great architecture has been celebrating throughout history, bringing to mind historical periods where beauty and tranquility meet. His work pays a tribute to the Becher art school. Like other disciples’ – Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff and Candida Höfer – Görner’s work is strictly conceptual, combined with a fine technical approach. All their works demonstrate the same fascination for typology and record the heritage of the western cultural and industrial past.to
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Artist: Reinhard Görner
Uris Library, Ithaca, Cornell University, Large Scale Architectural Photograph
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A mesmerizing portrait of architectural elegance and intellectual grandeur, Reinhard Görner’s Uris Library, Ithaca immerses viewers in the ornate beauty of Cornell University’s iconi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Morgan Library II, New York
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Morgan Library II
New York
70 x 87.5 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Paper is trimmed to the image: actual image size listed
Category
2010s Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Reinhard Görner 'Biblioteca del Senado, Madrid, Spain' (Library, Madrid)
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner
Biblioteca del Senado, Madrid
2017
59 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
71 x 60 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
83 x 70 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Paper is trimmed to the image: actual image size listed
Internal Keywords: Reinhard Görner, Library series, Madrid, Spain, Large-Scale Photography, Large-scale German photography, Spanish Libraries, Spanish Monuments, Library Photography...
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2010s Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Morgan Library, New York
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Morgan Library II
New York
50 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
60 x 60 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
70 x 70 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on lab...
Category
2010s Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
George Peabody Library, Baltimore
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
George Peabody Library
Baltimore
62.5 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
74.9 x 60 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
87.3 x 70 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed...
Category
2010s Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
George Peabody Library, Baltimore
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
George Peabody Library
Baltimore
62.5 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
74.9 x 60 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
87.3 x 70 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed...
Category
2010s Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Reinhard Görner: Rose Main Reading Room (New York Public Library)
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner
Rose Main Reading Room, 2014
New York Public Library
New York, NY
50 x 63.5 inches
Ed. of 10
$6,000
60 x 76.2 inches
Ed. of 7
$9,000
70 x 88.9 inches
Ed. of 5
$11,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Morgan Library II, New York
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Morgan Library II
New York
50 x 62.4 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
60 x 74.9 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
70 x 87.5 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Paper is trim...
Category
2010s Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Venus (detail), Sandro Botticelli Workshop, Painting Gallery, Berlin, Photograph
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Venus (detail), Sandro Botticelli Workshop, Painting Gallery, Berlin, Photograph
53.4 x 40 inches
ed. of 7
$4400
66.7 x 50
ed. of 5
$6800
signed and numbered on label, verso
Rein...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Great Minds' Duchess Anna Amalia Library, German Architecture Photograph
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Great Minds'
Duchess Anna Amalia Library
Weimar, Germany
2017
55 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
66 x 60 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
77 x 70 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
'Study Center' Duchess Anna Amalia Library, Germany, Architectural Photograph
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner
'Study Center'
Duchess Anna Amalia Library
Weimar, Germany
2017
A luminous ode to architectural grandeur and intellectual heritage, Reinhard Görner’s masterful phot...
Category
2010s Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
'Great Minds' Duchess Anna Amalia Library, German Architecture Photograph
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Great Minds'
Duchess Anna Amalia Library
Weimar, Germany
2017
55 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
66 x 60 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
77 x 70 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Greek Temple, Pergamon Museum, Berlin
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Greek Temple, Pergamon-Museum, Berlin
50 x 62.5 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
60 x 75 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
70 x 87.5 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Reinhard Görner, with his large format photographs orchestrates the monumentality of historical architecture, gardens, and masterpieces.
An active architecture photographer since 1985, is a master of perspectives and precise spatial compositions, and he thus considers classical sculpture, in all of its possible facets, a special challenge.
"Görner’s photographs sometimes open the doors to another world and take the viewer with them on a journey through time. Here the palace is no longer a museum but both royal residence and a site steeped in history. The viewer does not have to share the halls with the masses of visitors; instead the images offer him exclusive impressions of the Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors) and the Galerie des Batailles (Hall of Battles) as even the king of France was probably never granted. The halls are empty of people, yet they seem to be able to unfurl their individual characters of their own accord. These places practically breathe history, and this aspect is also part of the essence captured in the photographs. King Wilhelm of Prussia was named German Emperor Wilhelm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Shining Wall of Books, Yale Beinecke Library, Interior Architecture Photograph
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A breathtaking homage to the grandeur of knowledge, Reinhard Görner’s Shining Wall of Books captures the luminous beauty of one of the world’s most revered libraries. This masterfull...
Category
2010s Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
'Great Minds' Duchess Anna Amalia Library, German Architecture Photograph
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Great Minds'
Duchess Anna Amalia Library
Weimar, Germany
2017
55 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
66 x 60 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
77 x 70 inches
ed. of 5...
Category
2010s Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Reinhard Görner 'Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Spain' (Library, Madrid)
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner
Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid
2017
55 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
66 x 60 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
77 x 70 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Paper is trimmed to the image: actual image size listed
Internal Search: Reinhard Görner, Library series, Madrid, Spain, Large-Scale Photography, Large-scale German photography, Spanish Libraries...
Category
2010s Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Shining Wall of Books, Yale Beinecke Library, Interior Architecture Photograph
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A breathtaking homage to the grandeur of knowledge, Reinhard Görner’s Shining Wall of Books captures the luminous beauty of one of the world’s most rever...
Category
2010s Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
DETAIL FROM: FOUR REGENTS OF THE GROOT-KRAMERGILD, 1622 painting
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Detail From: Four Regents of the Groot-Kramergild
DETAIL FROM: FOUR REGENTS OF THE GROOT-KRAMERGILD, 2008
WERNER J. VAN DEN VALCKERT, 1622, PAINTING GALLERY BERLIN
Timeless autho...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Open Space, City Library, Stuttgart, Germany, German Interior Architecture Photo
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner
Open Space, City Library
Stuttgart, Germany
2014
Contemporary Interior Architecture Photograph
A vision of contemporary minimalism and infinite knowledge, Reinhard ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
'Study Center' Duchess Anna Amalia Library, Germany, Architectural Photograph
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner
'Study Center'
Duchess Anna Amalia Library
Weimar, Germany
2017
A luminous ode to architectural grandeur and intellectual heritage, Reinhard Görner’s masterful phot...
Category
2010s Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Open Space, City Library, Stuttgart, Germany, German Interior Architecture Photo
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner
Open Space, City Library
Stuttgart, Germany
2014
Contemporary Interior Architecture Photograph
A vision of contemporary minimalism and infinite knowledge, Reinhard ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Detail From: The Saints Laurentius and Catherine, Giovanni Gaddi, 1380 painting
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Detail From: The Saints Laurentius and Catherine, Giovanni Gaddi, 1380 painting
Berlin Painting Gallery
2008
Two editions available.
This 2008 conceptual photograph by German photo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Venus (detail), Sandro Botticelli Workshop, Painting Gallery, Berlin, Photograph
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Venus (detail), Sandro Botticelli Workshop, Painting Gallery, Berlin, Photograph
53.4 x 40 inches
ed. of 7
$4400
66.7 x 50
ed. of 5
$6800
signed and numbered on label, verso
Rein...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Athenæum, Boston
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Athenæum, Boston
50 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
60 x 60 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
70 x 70 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Paper is trimmed to the image...
Category
2010s Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Reinhard Görner 'Menendez y Pelayo' Madrid
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner
Menendez y Pelayo
Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid
2017
40 x 60 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
50 x 75 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
signed and numbere...
Category
2010s Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Arches, Bode Museum, Berlin
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Arches, Bode Museum, Berlin
40 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$5,000
50 x 62.5 inches
ed. of 5
$6,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Reinhard Görner, with his large format photogra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
The Blue Books, Upper Library, Oxford, German Interior Architecture Photograph
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An exquisite meditation on knowledge and architectural splendor, Reinhard Görner’s The Blue Books invites the viewer into the hallowed halls of Oxford’s Upper Library. The interplay ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Arches, Bode Museum, Berlin
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Arches, Bode Museum, Berlin
40 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$5,000
50 x 62.5 inches
ed. of 5
$6,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Reinhard Görner, with his large format photogra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Detail From: Queen Anna of Bohemia and Hungary, Hans Maler, 1525 painting
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Detail From: Queen Anna of Bohemia and Hungary
HANS MALER, 1525, PAINTING GALLERY BERLIN
2008
A striking photographic interpretation of a Renaissance ma...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Reinhard Görner: Rose Main Reading Room (New York Public Library)
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner
Rose Main Reading Room, 2014
New York Public Library
New York, NY
50 x 63.5 inches
Ed. of 10
$6,000
60 x 76.2 inches
Ed. of 7
$9,000
70 x 88.9 inches
Ed. of 5
$11,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
DETAIL FROM: YOUNG WOMAN WITH BARE BREAST, 2008 GIACOMO DI ANTONIO NIGRETI
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
DETAIL FROM: YOUNG WOMAN WITH BARE BREAST, 2008
GIACOMO DI ANTONIO NIGRETI, NAMED PALMA IL VECCHIO, 1524-26, PAINTING GALLERY BERLIN
40 x 53.4 inches
ed....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Venus and Amor I, 1530, Lucas Cranach The Elder, Painting Detail Photograph
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner’s Venus and Amor I presents an exquisite close-up of Lucas Cranach the Elder’s 1530 masterpiece, capturing the delicate interplay of sensuality and symbolism characte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Blue Books, Upper Library, Oxford, German Interior Architecture Photograph
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An exquisite meditation on knowledge and architectural splendor, Reinhard Görner’s The Blue Books invites the viewer into the hallowed halls of Oxford’s Upper Library. The interplay ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
"Archivo general de indias, Sevilla" photography by Reinhard Görner (50x50) 2017
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Paris, France
Photograph of the Archivo general de Indias, in Sevilla, Spain by Reinhard Görner.
Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin. Two weeks manufacturing time, t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Lambda, Digital Pigment
Riggs Library II, Washington DC, Interior Architecture Photograph
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Riggs Library II, Washington DC, by world-renowned architectural photographer Reinhard Görner, captures the timeless elegance of one of America's rare surviving cast-iron libraries. ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Riggs Library, Washington DC, Interior Architecture Photograph
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Riggs Library, Washington DC, by world-renowned architectural photographer Reinhard Görner, captures the timeless elegance of one of America's rare surviving cast-iron libraries. Thi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Riggs Library I, Washington DC, Interior Architecture Photograph
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Riggs Library I, Washington DC, by world-renowned architectural photographer Reinhard Görner, captures the timeless elegance of one of America's rare surviving cast-iron libraries. T...
Category
2010s Conceptual Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
"Upper Lusatian Library of Sciences, Görlitz", photography by Reinhard Görner
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Paris, France
"Upper Lusatian Library of Sciences, Görlitz", photograph of the Upper Lusatian Library of Sciences in Germany by Reinhard Görner.
Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plex...
Category
2010s Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Lambda, Digital Pigment
"Books, clocks and globes, national library, Prague" by Reinhard Görner
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Paris, France
Photograph of the National Library of Prague by Reinhard Görner.
Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin. Two weeks manufacturing time, then shipping in tw...
Category
2010s Contemporary Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Color, Digital Pigment, Resin
"Milich'sche Library I, Görlitz", photography by Reinhard Görner, 2016
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Paris, France
Photograph of the Milich'sche Libary I in Germany by Reinhard Görner.
Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin. Two weeks manufacturing time, then shipping ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Digital Pigment, Plexiglass
"Library, Freie Universität, Berlin", photography by Reinhard Görner, 2014
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Paris, France
Photograph of the Freie Universität Library in Berlin by Reinhard Görner.
Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin. Two weeks manufacturing time, then shipp...
Category
2010s Contemporary Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Color, Digital Pigment, Lambda
"Rose main reading room, New York Public Library" photography by Reinhard Görner
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Paris, France
Photograph of the NY Public Library by Reinhard Görner.
Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin. Two weeks manufacturing time, then shipping in two days af...
Category
2010s Reinhard Görner Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Lambda, Digital Pigment
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