Elger Esser, Cap Breton, 2025, Dry Ink, silver coated copper plate, shellac, 60 x 80 x 4 cm, Ed. 3 + 1AP
Elger Esser
Arromanches-les-Bains IV, France, 2012
C-Print, Diasec Face, 139 x 183 x 5cm, 5/7 +1 AP
Elger Esser
Cap Breton, 2025
Dry Ink, silvered copper plate, shellack, 60 x 80 x 4 cm, Ed. 3
Elger Esser
Pont du Gard, 2025
Dry ink, silvered copper plate, shellack, 33 x 43 x 4 cm, Ed. 3
Elger Esser
Fort Louvois, 2014
Dry ink on silver coated copper plate, shellac, frame, 47 x 62 x 5 cm, 1/3
Elger Esser
Villerville III, 2019
Dry ink, silver coated copper plate, shellac, 47 x 62 x 5 cm, Ed. 1/3 +1 AP
Elger Esser
Ile d'Arun, 2019
Dry ink, silver coated copper plate, shellac, frame, 47 x 62 x 4cm
Elger Esser, Lago di Como, 2025
Dry Ink, versilberte Kupferplatte, Schellack, 33 x 43 x 5 cm, Edition 3 (+1 AP)
Elger Esser
Bages II 2024
Dry Ink, silvered copper plate, shellack, 60 x 80 x 4 cm, Ed. 3
Elger Esser
Etang du Bateguier I, 2020
Dry ink, silver coated copper plate, shellac, frame, 26,5 x 33 x 4 cm
Elger Esser, Peyrac II, 2024
Dry ink, silvered coated copper plate, shellac, framed, 42 x 32 x 5 cm, Ed. 1/3
Elger Esser
Hoquiam II, USA, 2007
C-Print, Diasec Face, 143,5 x 184 x 5 cm, 7/7 + 1AP
Elger Esser
La Nautique II, 2024
silver coated copper plate, dry ink, shellac, framed, 26 x 33 x 5cm, Ed. 2/3
Elger Esser
Capbreton III, 2025
Kupferplatte versilbert, Directprint, Schellack, 60 x 80 x 5 cm, 1/3
Elger Esser
Locquemeaux, 2023
Dry ink on silver coated copper plate, shellac, frame, 33 x 43 x 5cm, 1/3
Mont Saint Michel-Marée montante, 2022
Kupferplatte versilbert, Directprint, Schellack, gerahmt
44 x 58 x 4 cm, Ed. 1/3
Elger Esser
Mont Saint Michel - Young man by the sea, 2023
Dry ink on silver coated copper plate, shellac, frame, 47 x 62 x 5 cm, 1/3
Elger Esser
Mont Saint Michel, Grande marée, Nuit, 2023
Dry ink on silver coated copper plate, shellac, frame, 71 x 95 x 5 cm, 1/3
Elger Esser
Villerville, 2023
Dry ink on silver coated copper plate, shellac, frame, 47 x 62 x 5 cm, 1/3
Elger Esser
Grouin du Sud, 2023
Dry ink on silver coated copper plate, shellac, frame, 47 x 62 x 5 cm, 1/3
Elger Esser
Folie Siffait I, 2024/25
Dry Ink, silvered copper plate, oil paint, varnish, framed, 33 x 43 x 4 cm, ed. 3
Elger Esser
Folie Siffait II, 2024/25
Dry Ink on silvered copper plate, oil paint, varnish, 33 x 43 x 4 cm, ed. 3
Elger Esser
Château de Bagatelle, I, 2022
Dry Ink, silvered copper plate, oil paint, varnish, 48 x 38 cm, Ed. 3
Elger Esser
Château de Bagatelle, II, 2022
Dry Ink, silvered copper plate, oil paint, varnish, 48 x 38 cm, Ed. 3
Elger Esser
Château de Bagatelle, III, 2022
Dry Ink, silvered copper plate, oil paint, varnish, 48 x 38 cm, Ed. 3
Elger Esser
Beaugency III, 2014
Dry ink on silver coated copper plate, shellac, frame, 33 x 43 cm, 1/3
Elger Esser
Les Andelys II, 2018
Inkjet Diasec Face, framed, 142 x 184 cm, 1/7
Mont Saint Michel-Mascaret, 2022
Kupferplatte versilbert, Directprint, Schellack, gerahmt
44 x 58 x 4 cm, 1/3 + 1AP
Mont Saint MIchel IV, 2020
C-Print, Diasec Face, Forex, 184 x 248 cm, Ed. 3/7 + 1 AP
Plouescat, 2019
Kupferplatte versilbert, Directprint, Schellack, gerahmt
61 x 81 x 4cm, Ed. 2/3
Beaugency II IV Frankreich, 2001 C-Print
Diasec Face
140 x 184 x 5 cm
Ed. 7
Chatressac IV Frankreich, 2011
C-Print, Diasec Face
184 x 241 x 5 cm
Ed. 7
La Blaise 2017
Directprint on silver coated copper plate
33 x 43 x 4 cm
Ed. 3
Moder I, 2016
Kupferplatte versilbert, Directprint, Schellack, gerahmt
26,5 x 34 x 4 cm, Ed. 2/3
Moder II 2016
Kupferplatte versilbert, Directprint, Schellack, gerahmt
33 x 43 x 4 cm, Ed. 2/3 + 1 AP
Elger Esser
Baie de la Somme, Frankreich 2005
C-Print Diasec Face, 186 x 243 x 5cm, Ed. 6/7 +1AP
Elger Esser
See Genezareth I, Israel 2005
C-Print, Diasec Face, 184 x 230,6 x 5cm, Ed. 4/7 +1AP
Elger Esser, Bages II, 2024
Dry ink, silvered coated copper plate, shellac, framed, 60 x 80 x 4 cm, ed. 3 (+1 AP)
Elger Esser, Beaugency III, 2014
Dry Ink on silvered copper plate, varnish, framed 33 x 43 cm, 1/3, 1AP
Elger Esser, Ile d'Arun, 2019
Dry Ink on silvered copper plate, varnish, framed 47 x 62 x 4cm, 1/3 + 1AP
Elger Esser, Mont Saint Michel, Grande marée, Nuit, 2023
Dry Ink on silvered copper plate, varnish, framed 71 x 95 x 5 cm, 1/3 + 1AP
Elger Esser, Mont Saint Michel - Young man by the sea, 2023
Dry Ink on silvered copper plate, varnish, framed 47 x 62 x 5 cm, 1/3, 1AP
Elger Esser, Grouin du Sud, 2023
Dry Ink on silvered copper plate, varnish, framed 47 x 62 x 5 cm, 1/3, 1AP
Elger Esser, Roc'h Gored, 2020
Dry Ink on silvered copper plate, varnish, framed 47 x 62 x 5 cm, 1/3, 1AP
Elger Esser, Fort Louvois, 2014
Dry Ink on silvered copper plate, varnish, framed 47 x 62 x 5 cm, 1/3, 1AP
Elger Esser, Mémoire céleste, 2024
@ L’Abbaye de Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandie, France
Elger Esser, Mémoire céleste, 2024
@ L’Abbaye de Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandie, France
Elger Esser "Grey Le Gray" @ Van der Grinten Galerie, 2020
Villerville, 2019
Kupferplatte versilbert, Directprint, Schellack, gerahmt
61 x 81 cm, Ed. 2/3
Installation view Elger Esser, "Grey Le Gray" @ Van der Grinten Galerie, Nov. 2020
Photo: M. Wittassek
Elger Esser "Grey Le Gray" @ Van der Grinten Galerie, 2020
Installation view Elger Esser, "Grey Le Gray" @ Van der Grinten Galerie, Nov. 2020
Photo: M. Wittassek
Elger Esser "Grey Le Gray" @ Van der Grinten Galerie, 2020
Installation view Elger Esser, "Grey Le Gray" @ Van der Grinten Galerie, Nov. 2020
Photo: M. Wittassek
Elger Esser "Paysages Intimes" @ Van der Grinten Galerie, 2018
Elger Esser "Paysages Intimes" @ Van der Grinten Galerie, 2018
Installation view Elger Esser, "Grey Le Gray" @ Van der Grinten Galerie, Nov. 2020
Photo: M. Wittassek
Installation view Elger Esser, "Grey Le Gray" @ Van der Grinten Galerie, Nov. 2020
Photo: M. Wittassek
Installation view Elger Esser, "Grey Le Gray" @ Van der Grinten Galerie, Nov. 2020
Photo: M. Wittassek
| 1967 | Born in Stuttgart / DE |
| 1969–1986 | Elementary school and bachelor in Italy |
| 1996 | Masters of Fine art |
| 2006–2009 | Professor at Staatlichen Hochschule für Gestaltung (section Medienkunst), Karlsruhe / DE |
| Currently | Lives and works in Düsseldorf / DE |
| 2016 | Oskar-Schlemmer-Preis |
| 2010 | Rheinischer Kunstpreis |
| 2001 | Deutsches Studienzentrum Venedig |
| 1998 | Förderpreis für Bildende Kunst der Stadt Düsseldorf. |
| DAAD-Reisestipendium „Italien“ |
| 2026 | "My Days at Rays", Rosegallery Los Angeles, CA, US |
| 2025 | "Couleur sur Couleur", Van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne / DE |
| "Paysages et autres bagatelles", Bruno Moinard Editions, Paris / FR (November 13 – December 6, 2025) | |
| “Post-Summer”, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, DE | |
| 2024 | "L’Être du temps", Galerie RX & SLAG, Paris, FR |
| "Elger Esser, Mémoire céleste", Abbaye du Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandie, FR | |
| Journées Européennes du Patrimonie, Exposition photo d’Elger Esser, Musée Narbo Via Narbonne, FR | |
| "Die engen Wasser", Haus Beda, Neue Galerie, Bitburg, DE | |
| "Lacus Rubresus", La Maison des Arts, Bages, FR | |
| "According to History", Dominik Mersch Gallery Rushcutters Bay, Australia | |
| 2023 | "Das stille Sein", Van der Grinten Galerie, Köln, DE |
| "Le Lys dans la Vallée", Fondation des Artistes, Rotonde Balzac, Hotel Salomon de Rothschild, Paris, FR | |
| "Aestus I", Galerie Kewenig, Pied-à-terre, Berlin-Charllottenburg, DE | |
| "Photographies sur cuivre par Elger Esser", Musée d'art moderne de Fontevraud, FR | |
| 2022 | "Silberblumen", FLOWERS, Hong Kong |
| 2021 | "Elger Esser. So far yet so close", Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney / AUS |
| 2020 | "Grey Le Gray", Van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne / DE |
| "En somme, j'ai vu de l'eau, du soleil, des nuages...", Musée de la Mer, Ile Sainte Marguerite, Cannes / FR (June 26 – Oct. 25, 2020) | |
| "Entre temps et durée", Galerie RX, Paris / FR Nov. 2019 – Jan. 2020 | |
| 2019 | "De Sérignant à Giverny", Tour46, Belfort / FR |
| "L’autre côte du vent", Elger Esser and Felix Schramm, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Brussels / BE | |
| "Morgenland", Fondation Fernet Branca, Saint-Louis / FR | |
| 2018 | “Paysages intimes”, Van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne / DE |
| 2017 | “El tiempo en suspenso”, Patio Herreriano, Valladolid nov / ESP |
| "Le Nil sur la Loire", Chateau de Chaumont, Domaine Chaumont sur Loire / FR | |
| "Elger Esser - Aetas", Landesgalerie im Landesmuseum, Linz / AU | |
| 2016 | "zeitigen", Oskar Schlemmer State Prize, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe / DE |
| "From Shivta to Lifta", Loushy Art & Projects, Tel Aviv / ISR | |
| 2015 | "Nocturnes à Giverny, Photographies de Elger Esser", Festival Normandie Impressionniste, Galerie Photo du Pôle Image Haute-Normandie, Rouen / FR |
| 2014 | The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa / USA |
| "L’âge d’or", Galerie Kewenig, Berlin/ DE | |
| 2012 | "Stille Wellen", Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg / DE |
| 2011 | "Lichte Weite", LVR-LandesMuseum, Bonn / DE |
| 2010 | Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem / NL |
| 2009 | "Eigenzeit", Kunstmuseum Stuttgart [ / DE |
| 2008 | "Französische Landschaften 1990–2008", FO.KU.S – Foto Kunst Stadtforum, Innsbruck / AU |
| 1999 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York / USA |
| 1998 | Kunstverein Siegen, Siegen / D E |
| 1997 | Kunstverein Hagen, Hagen / D E |
| 1995 | Kulturbahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf / D E |
| 2026 | "Monet on the Normandy Coast The Discovery of Étretat", Städel Museum Frankfurt am Main |
| "The Preview 2026" Dominik Mersh Gallery, Sydney, Australia | |
| 2025 | Sonnabend Collection @ Palazzo della Ragione, Mantova, IT |
| 2025 | "Étretat, par-delà les falaises", Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon, FR |
| 2025 | "Archistories", Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, DE |
| 2025 | "Blue Zone", Kunsthal Rotterdam, NL |
| 2025 | Ostfriesland Biennale, Landesmuseum Kunst + Kultur Oldenburg, DE |
| 2024 | "Im Fluss. Eine Geschichte über das Wasser", Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, DE |
| "FOTO – KUNST – FOTO Von Julia Margeret Cameron bis Elger Esser", Clemens Sels Museum, Neuss, DE | |
| "Im Fluss. Eine Geschichte über das Wasser", Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, DE | |
| "Licht und Schatten made in Düsseldorf #6", NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, DE | |
| 2023 | "Transformationen: Material & Auflösung", Van der Grinten Galerie, Köln |
| Never Lost and Always Found Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, Australia | |
| "Rembrandt en Eau forte with Elger Esser Landscapes", Abbaye de Fontevraud / FR | |
| "Au Milieu des Terres – En carnet de voyages en Méditerranée", Espace Cultural Départemental, Aix-en-Provence / FR | |
| "Landscapes, Florenz & Istanbul", Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland / DE | |
| "Rosenrot, Grasgrün, Quittengelb", Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall / DE | |
| "Landscape and Psyche", Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney | |
| 2022 | "Earth: A Retrospective. El Ultimo Grito I La Collecció Per Amor A L’art", Bombas Gens Centre d’Art València, ES |
| "Fantastic Visions", AMoA, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo / USA | |
| "Une histoire de famille", Collection(s) Robelin, Musée d‘Art Contemporain Lyon, FR | |
| "Belonging", The Hunt Museum, Limerick / IE | |
| 2021 | COLECCIÓN JUMEX: TEMPERATURA AMBIENTE Fundacion Museo Jumex, Mexico City / MX |
| 2020 | BLUE, Loushy Art & Projects Tel Aviv / ISR |
| Sammlung Würth, Die Inszenierung der Natur in Werken der Sammlung Würth, Chur/ CH | |
| The Sonnabend Collection, Remai Modern, Saskatoon / CA | |
| 2019 | "L’invention d’un monde – Photographies des collections Robelin", FRAC – Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand /FR |
| "Zwischen Nähe und Distanz: Konstruktion von Wirklichkeiten. Von Goya bis Picasso", Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf / DE | |
| 2018 | "The Moment is Eternity – Works from the Olbricht Collection", me Collectors Room Berlin / DE |
| "Light Sensitive 2 – Photography from the Schaufler Collection", Schauwerk Sindelfingen / DE | |
| "As Far as the Eye Can See", Museum Würth, Künzelsau / DE | |
| 2017 | "Wiesenstück", Van der Grinten Galerie, Köln/ DE |
| "Luther und die Avantgarde. Zeitgenössische Kunst in Wittenberg, Berlin und Kasse", Altes Gefängnis, Wittenberg / DE | |
| "Water, Clouds, Wind", Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall / DE | |
| 2016 | "Langmatt, Licht, Libellen - Impressionismus heute?", Museum Langmatt, Baden, Austria |
| "Aus der Sammlung: Landschaft. Landesgalerie Linz", Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Linz / AU | |
| "Der typologische Blick – Ausstellung für Hilla Becher.", Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung für Kultur, Cologne / DE | |
| "I Prefer Life. Reydan Weiss Collection." Exhibition on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Weserburg, Bremen / DE | |
| "WALD", Van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne / DE | |
| "Gärten der Welt". Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland | |
| "Monets Gärten. Zeitgenössische Fotografien", Schloss Eutin / CH | |
| "Viehof Collection", Deichtorhallen, Hamburg / DE | |
| 2015 | "Photographing Monet's Gardens: Five Contemporary Views", Musée des Impressionismes Giverny, Giverny / FR |
| "Faszination Fotografie", Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg / AU | |
| "Landscape in my Mind - Landscape photography today", Kunstforum Wien, Vienna / AU |
Elger Esser im Gespräch mit Ralph Goertz, 2024 (Deutsch, 3’38 »)
im Rahmen der Ausstellung FOTO-KUNST-FOTO im Clemens Sels Museum Neuss in Kooperation mit dem IKS-Medienarchiv
Fernsehbeitrag mit Elger Essers Werke im SWR / Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz (German)
Fernsehbeitrag vom 15.10.2024
Elger Esser on “140, Saint Malo”
2014 (English)
Interview Elger Esser / Paris Photo, 2018 (12’46 »)
Elger Esser über seine Arbeit, 2009 (3’07 », Deutsch)
Institut für Kunstdokumentation
Elger Esser, DE SUBLIME
Stelline Foundation, Milano, 2017 (Italian/Engl), 5'48
Elger Esser – “zeitigen” (Deutsch mit englischem Untertitel)
2016 / Anläßlich der Oskar Schlemmer Preisverleihung an Elger Esser und seiner Ausstellung in der Kunsthalle Karlsruhe / Film von CastYourArt.
Elger Esser and the heliogravure
Madrid 2015 (English/Spanish), 1'51
Elger Esser, GIVERNY
2012 (German), 5'30
Verleihung des Oskar-Schlemmer-Preises an Elger Esser
Karlsruhe 2016 (German), 57'36
| Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York / USA |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York / USA |
| Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo / USA |
| Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam / NL |
| Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf / DE |
| Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich / CH |
| Fonds national d’art contemporain, Paris / FR |
| Centre Pompidou, Paris / FR |
| Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich / DE |
| Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart / DE |
| Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg / AU |
| Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna / AU |
| DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt / DE |
| SMS Contemporanea, ex Palazzo Delle Papesse, Siena / IT |
| Fundació Foto Colectania, Barcelona / ES |
| LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn / DE |
| Huis Marseille, Amsterdam / NL |
| Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs / USA |