Robert Häusser’s Work

The contemporary artist already began taking photographs as an adolescent and developed his own pictorial concept very early on. On the border between nature and civilization, he sets the content and form of his works in constant interaction with each other. Many of the almost exclusively black-and-white works anticipated later art movements.

Häusser’s compositions often deal with topics like melancholy, transience and loneliness which is related to his family’s suffering under National Socialism. Therefore, there are almost never any people in his early photographs. There is a mental proximity to artists such as Caspar David Friedrich, Edward Hopper and Giorgio de Chirico.

In 2003, he gave all of his more than 64,000 photographs, color slides and negatives to the “Forum Internationale Photographie (FIP)” of the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen in Mannheim. He selected 19 photographs for the exhibition in the Schloss Mannheim together with the chairman of the Forum, Dr. Claude Sui.

Life Timeline I Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen