Publisher: Jovis Verlag, 2021
ISBN: 978-3-86859-673-1
112 pages, 36 photos
Texts by Andreas Nachama, Ursula Wilms mit Heinrich W. Hallmann, Friederike von RauchThe Topography of Terror, a place of learning and remembrance, evolved in central Berlin on the ruined site where the headquarters of Gestapo, SS, and Reich Security Main Office once stood in the Nazi era. It now has over a million visitors every year. In this volume, the historian Andreas Nachama, who was director of the Topography of Terror Foundation from 1994 to 2019, recalls his youthful impressions of the place and traces the evolution and establishment of the Topography of Terror, with which he was closely associated from the 1980s onwards. The architect and exhibition designer Ursula Wilms and the landscape architect Heinz W. Hallmann present the basic concept that guided their overall design plan for the Topography of Terror, combining architecture, landscape, and exhibition design. The original photographs in the volume by the photographer Friederike von Rauch convey the atmosphere of the site shortly before its completion in 2010.
Publisher: Jovis Verlag, 2019
ISBN: 978-3-86859-591-8
64 pages, 33 photos
Texts by Frère Marc Chauveau, Birgit Möckel, Friederike von RauchWith her eye for architectural details, Friederike von Rauch captures the contemplative power of monastic interiors—while simultaneously separating them from their religious context. The Berlin-based artist has lived and worked in several of the icons of European monastic architecture over the past few years, including Le Corbusier’s Sainte-Marie de La Tourette near Lyon, Hans van der Laan’s Roosenberg Abbey near Antwerp, and Andrea Palladio’s monastery San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. Using an analogue, medium-format camera, she has created images that tell of immersion, with ascetic lighting control and reduced colors. The absence of human presence and the subtle treatment of light and shadow lend her interiors an element of timelessness and placelessness.
NEUES PALAIS
Publisher: Jovis Verlag, 2019
ISBN: 978-3-86859-549-9
112 pages, 65 photos
Texts by Rudolf Prinz zur Lippe, Samuel Wittwer
A hundred years ago, the baroque New Palace in the gardens of Sanssouci became a museum. Today’s visitors are scarcely aware that its room sequences continue beyond the palatial interiors, and served for a long time as workshops, offices, or depots. Due to a comprehensive restoration of the castle, these functions have now been moved elsewhere, which marks a major turning point for the New Palace.
For Samuel Wittwer, Director of the Department of Palaces and Collections, it seemed important to preserve the unique atmosphere of the castle during the transition period, taking an artistic rather than objectively documentary look at the character of the building. Berlin based photographer Friederike von Rauch succeeded in doing so convincingly on her countless forays through the castle: she has captured the special features—in detail as well as in wider pictorial gestures. With insightful observations, texts by Rudolf Prinz zur Lippe provide accomplished counterpoints to the visual highlights. The result is a book that goes beyond conventional notions—Prussia’s castles have never presented themselvesso poetically before.
IN SECRET
Publisher: Sieveking Verlag, 2013
ISBN: 978-3-944874-02-9
Text by Matthias Harder
With a keen sensitivity to the beauty and fractures of inconspicuous details, Friederike von Rauch presents the viewer with startling spatial perspectives. Her uninhabited compositions of light and shadow reveal a subtle artistic aesthetic and in many respects recall abstract painting. This volume features photographs from various bodies of work created between 2009 and 2013. As in her earlier projects, the focus is not on documenting or making a place recognizable.
All of her photographs—taken with an analog camera and using only natural light—are shaped by the interplay of spatial experience. Dark bay windows, bare walls, views of objects, or traces of human intervention take on a life of their own through von Rauch’s perspective, while at the same time leaving ample room for interpretation.
NEUES MUSEUM
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2009
ISBN: 978-3775723763
96 Pages, 43 Photos
Text by Andres Lepik
It is not about scars, but about remembrance and history. It is like a painting: if it was left unfinished and you complete it, then you no longer have the original." David Chipperfield
Berlin-based photographer Friederike von Rauch uses an analog camera to produce her images of landscapes and buildings. The poetic, lucid photographs in her latest project document the restoration the Neues Museum, centerpiece of the Museum Island in Berlin, which was badly damaged during World War II.
The British architect David Chipperfield was commissioned to transform the ruin back into a functional museum. His plans were controversial, but the spectacular results show that he was right. Starting from a conservational approach, Chipperfield preserved the Neoclassical lines while at the same time creating modern spaces of amazing elegance. Friederike von Rauch accompanies the exciting final stage of the renovation work, capturing David Chipperfield's determination to reveal historical breaches while reconciling them with the demands of a contemporary museum.
SITES
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007
ISBN: 978-3775720397
132 Pages, 76 Photos
Texts by: Ann De Craemer, Geert van Istendael, Esther Gallodoro, Andres Lepik
For her book, the photographer found unusual architectural details in the cities of Berlin, Brussels, and Rotterdam with detective-like intuition. Berlin-based photographer Friederike von Rauch specializes in architecture. She seeks out special places and buildings, which in her photographs seem at once strange and familiar. Using an analogue camera and the most diffuse, natural light possible, she creates images of mysterious abstraction. In her intensive photographic exploration of architecture, she has developed a very personal visual language, reacting differently to each new place, but always managing to retain her unmistakable approach. In 2006-07, the Vlaams-Nederlands Huis deBuren awarded von Rauch a grant as their artist in residence in the cities of Brussels and Rotterdam. This led to the development of a photographic project, including Berlin as a third city, which will be exhibited in all three locations.
32xBERLIN
Publisher: lucks+vonrauch Verlag, 2003
ISBN: 3-00-011437-8
64 colour plates
A card game and a pictorial collection of Berlin by photographer Friederike von Rauch.64 colour plates, 11x11 cm, German/Englisch game rules plus relevant architectural history.
"32xberlin is a game that combines three of our great loves: photography, architecture an ridicously overblown production values." Wallpaper
