Florian Maier-Aichen (born 1973 in
Stuttgart
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, West Germany) is a
landscape photographer based in
Cologne, Germany
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and
Los Angeles
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, US. He uses a combination of traditional photographic techniques and computer imaging.
Maier-Aichen studied at the
University of California, Los Angeles
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, the
University of Essen
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in Germany, and at the Hoegskolan for
Fotografi och Film Gothenborg in
Sweden
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.
His work features in several important public collections including the
Denver Art Museum
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, the
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
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in Los Angeles, the
Walker Art Center
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in Minneapolis, the
Whitney Museum of American Art
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in New York, and the
Saatchi Gallery
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in London.
Florian Maier-Aichen—Photography
/ref> He participated in the 2006 Whitney Biennial
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.
References
External links
Blum and Poe: Florian Maier-Aichen
303 Gallery: Florian Maier-Aichen
PBS: Florian Maier-Aichen
Artforum review, April, 2006.
Photographers from Baden-Württemberg
1973 births
Living people
Artists from Stuttgart
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