Elger Esser Selected Works Available

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Elger Esser Capitola, from the portfolio Six American Sunsets, 2008 43.25 x 56.5 inches Archival pigment print Signed and numbered by the artist on label adhered to frame verso Editioned by Lapis Press in 2008 Number seven in a limited edition of ten $15,000. [Unframed] $15,000 [Unframed]

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Elger Esser Cutting Wharf II, from the portfolio Six American Sunsets, 2008 43.25 x 56.5 inches Archival pigment print Signed and numbered by the artist on label adhered to frame verso Editioned by Lapis Press Number six in a limited edition of ten $15,000 [Unframed]

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Elger Esser Sea Cliff, from the portfolio Six American Sunsets, 2008 43.25 x 56.5 inches Archival pigment print Signed and numbered by the artist on label adhered to frame verso Editioned by Lapis Press Number six in a limited edition of ten $15,000. [Unframed]

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Elger Esser Hoquiam, from the portfolio Six American Sunsets, 2008 43.25 x 56.5 inches Archival pigment print Signed and numbered by the artist on label adhered to frame verso Editioned by Lapis Press Number six in a limited edition of ten

$15,000. [Unframed]

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Port Angeles, from the portfolio Six American Sunsets, 2008 43.25 x 56.5 inches Archival pigment print Signed and numbered by the artist on label adhered to frame verso Editioned by Lapis Press Number six in a limited edition of ten

$15,000. [Unframed]

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El Kab V, Egypt, 2011 Image 6.25 x 9 inches / Sheet 18 x 20.25 inches Chromogenic print Signed by the artist in ink on printed label with title, edition and date adhered to verso Number three from a limited edition of seven with one Artist Proof

$8,200. [Framed]

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Elger Esser Luxor I, Egypt, 2011 Image 12.75 x 18.25 inches / Sheet 16.75 x 23.25 inches Chromogenic print Signed by the artist in ink on printed label with title, edition and date adhered to verso Number three from a limited edition of seven with one Artist Proof

$15,000. [Framed]

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Elger Esser El Kab III, Egypt, 2011 Image 12.75 x 18.25 inches / Sheet 16.75 x 23.25 inches Chromogenic print Signed by the artist in ink on printed label with title, edition and date adhered to verso Number three from a limited edition of seven with one Artist Proof

$15,000. [Framed]

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Elger Esser Salwa Bahry IV, Egypt, 2011 Image 12.75 x 18.25 inches / Sheet 16.75 x 23.25 inches Chromogenic print Signed by the artist in ink on printed label with title, edition and date adhered to verso Number three from a limited edition of seven with one Artist Proof

$15,000. [Framed]

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Elger Esser Salwa Bahry II, Egypt, 2011 Image 40.25 x 57.5 inches / Framed 55.25 x 72.5 inches Chromogenic print mounted to Diasec Signed by the artist in ink on printed label with title, edition and date adhered to verso Number three from a limited edition of seven with one Artist Proof

$38,000. [Framed]

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Elger Esser El Quarwad, Egypt, 2011 Image 40.25 x 57.5 inches / Framed 55.5 x 72.25 inches Chromogenic print mounted to Diasec Signed, titled, editioned, and dated in ink on label affixed to frame verso Number three from a limited edition of seven with one Artist Proof

$38,000. [Framed]

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Elger Esser Seudre, Frankreich, 2003 Image 39.5 x 56 inches / Framed 55 x 71.25 inches Chromogenic print mounted to Diasec Signed, titled, editioned, and dated in ink on label affixed to frame verso Number three in a limited edition of seven

$44,000. [Framed]

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Elger Esser Belvelly, [Ireland], 2005 Image 40.5 x 57.5 inches / Frame 56 x 73 inches Chromogenic print mounted to Diasec Signed, numbered and titled on print verso in ink by the artist Number six in a limited edition of seven

$40,000. [Framed]

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Elger Esser Dungeness, USA, 2007 56.75 x 72.5 inches Chromogenic Print mounted to Diasec Signed, titled, editioned, and dated in ink on label affixed to frame verso Number five in a limited edition of seven

$47,000. [Framed]

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Elger Esser Talmont II, Frankreich, 2000 Image 54 x 77 inches / Frame 72.5 x 94.25 inches Color coupler print mounted to Diasec Signed, titled, editioned, and dated in ink on label affixed to frame verso Number one in a limited edition of five

$65,000. [Framed]

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Elger Esser Biography b. 1967, Stuttgart Elger Esser was born in Stuttgart in 1967 and was raised in Rome. In 1986, he moved to Düsseldorf, where he worked as a commercial photographer until 1991. He then attended the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie, studying with Bernd and Hilla Becher, until 1997. A trip to Lyon in 1996 marked a turning point in his practice, yielding an aesthetic based on the experience of travel in what Esser calls "archaic locales in the middle of nowhere" and on postcards, which had fascinated the artist since childhood. Esser subsequently made a series of excursions around Western Europe in search of subjects in the natural and built environments, such as the tranquil river in Marne (1997) and the dense architecture of Naples in Matera I (1998). Both of these photographs are part of the artist's Vedutas and Landscapes series, along with studies of the sea such as his Ameland images (2000).

Esser has had solo exhibitions at the Kunstverein in Hagen, Germany (1997), Galleria d'Arte Moderna Bologna (2001), and Fondation Herzog in Basel (2004), among other venues. Group exhibitions in which his work has appeared include the Biennale della Fotografia at Fondazione Italiana per la Fotografia in Turin (1999), Hier und jetzt at Museum Kunst Palast in Düsseldorf (2002), and Affinities . . .

Now and Then at the Kansas City Art Institute (2003). He lives and works in Düsseldorf.

Like many contemporary German photographers, Elger Esser studied under Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Yet unlike others schooled by the Bechers such as Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, or Thomas Struth, Esser attends to the unmanipulated, ephemeral, even romantic landscapes of Europe. Simply put, he photographs beaches, wetlands, riverbeds, and valleys. Such places offer up a low, straight horizon that is likely to be one of the most striking details of the resulting image. His views are often comprised largely of air and water, light and its reflection. In Ameland Pier X, Netherlands (2000), for example, the horizon divides the sky from the sea, forming two halves that are almost mirror images of each other, similarly tinted by the pale, luminous tones of an overcast day.

There is a sense of placelessness to these landscapes, despite Esser's lending of location details to the titles. Whether they portray the Seine in Paris, a beach at Beaduc, France, or a narrow strip of the Dutch shore, his photographs pay tribute to the universal lure of a seemingly infinite horizon and ultimate calm in the foreground. The picturesque quality of these views brings to mind everything from old-fashioned scenic-view postcards to nineteenth-century American Luminist paintings. But in the stillness of the landscapes and their muted, dreamlike colors linger evocations of the sublime, recalling the expressive effect of works by such great Romantic landscape painters as Caspar David Friedrich. The large scale of Esser's prints coupled with the expansive distances and often indistinct horizons he photographs works to envelop the viewer, offering an alluring tension between the landscape originally encountered by the artist and experienced by the viewer.

Suggested readings Gigliotti, Guglielmo. "Elger Esser." Tema Celeste (Syracuse, Italy), nos. 88–89 (Jan.–Feb. 2002), pp. 64–67.

Marne + Loire (exh. cat.). Bologna: Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Pendragon, 2001.

Tognon, Paola. Olivo Barbieri, Elger Esser: Cityscapes/Landscapes (exh. cat.). Milan: Silvana, 2002.

Pfab, Rupert, and Georg Elben. Vedutas and Landscapes 1996–2000. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2000.

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