Jan SCHLEGEL
Introduction
Jan C. Schlegel was born in 1965 in the Black Forest of Germany. He discovered his passion for photography at the age of 14 with in the scope of a Photo course at school. For his first own camera, the reflex camera Minolta XG9, the 14 year-old saved long. As winner of a AGFA photo competition with focus on portraits, Schlegel took part in a seminar by the photographer Walter Schels in the Staatslehranstalt für Photographie in Munich. Under Walter Schel's influence Jan C. Schlegel began to ascertain his fervor for black-and-white portraits. Toni Schneiders, a distant neighbor of Schlegel, became the second important mentor for the young photographer.
Biography
- HAUTE PHOTOGRAPHY AMSTERDAM 2022, Museum Plein, Amsterdam
- PHOTO LONDON 2022, May 2022 Sommerset House, Booth of Echo Fine Arts
- Exhibition at Photo London 2022 “OF ALIENS, MERMAIDS & MEDUSAS”, May 2022, Booth of Roland Belgrave Vintage Photography
- Exhibition “Il corpo come opera d'arte”, Sep. 3rd to February 14th 2022. SPAZIOTRART, viale XX Settembre, 33, 34126 Trieste, Italy
- Exhibition “EXOTIQUE - MASTERWORKS”, Sep. 3rd to January 28th 2022 , Gallery Jörg Schuhmacher, Frankfurt, Germany.
- Exhibition “PURE”, November 2019 , IMMAGIS FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY, Munich/Germany
- Exhibition “CREATURES OF THE SEVEN SEAS” & “OF MONSTER AND DRAGON”, June to October 2019, Photo Festival La Gacilly Baden/Austria
- Group Exhibition “A Sight to behold”, November 23rd 2018 to January 6th 2019, Van der Grinten Gallery, Cologne, Germany
- Exhibition “Essence”, September 2018, Art of Foto Gallery, St. Petersburg/Russia
- FESTIVAL PHOTO LA GACILLY 2018, "Of Monster & Dragon", La Gacilly, France
- EXHIBITION "ICONS - THE TRIBES OF OUR GENERATION", 2017, WILLAS contemporary, Oslo
- PARIS PHOTO 2016, Grand Palais, Paris France
- EXHIBITION "BOOTH D9 - SÉLECTION PARIS PHOTO", 2016, Bernheimer Fine Art Photography, Lucerne
- ART GENEVA 2016
- EXHIBITION "UNFORGETTABLE TRACES", 2015, Bernheimer Fine Art Photography, Lucerne
- PARIS PHOTO 2015, Grand Palais, Paris France
- PARIS PHOTO 2014, Grand Palais, Paris France
- PARIS PHOTO 2013, Grand Palais, Paris France
- ART SOUTHAMPTON 2014, Southampton, New York, USA
- PARIS PHOTO 2013, Grand Palais, Paris France
- EXHIBITION "FACES" 2013 at "Bernheimer Fine Art Photography" Munich, Germany
- FESTIVAL PHOTO LA GACILLY 2013, "PEOPLE & NATURE", La Gacilly, France
- PARIS PHOTO 2012, Grand Palais, Paris, France
- EXHIBITION FACES 2012, Olympics Arts Event, Westminster Abbey, London, GB
- EXHIBITION "FACES", GALLERY 4, Shanghai, China 2012
- MASTERPIECE London 2012, London, United Kingdom
- PARIS PHOTO 2011, Museum de Louvre, Paris, France-
- AIPAD 2011, 5th Ave, New York, USA
- ART STAGE SINGAPUR 2011, Singapur
- EXHIBITION "EARTHSCAPES", Flo Peters Gallery 2010, Hamburg, Germany
- EXHIBITION "MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY" 2009 at DASK GALLERY, Kopenhagen, Denmark
- EXHIBITION "A TASTE OF PHOTOGRAPHY", 2009, GALLERY 51 At Arte, Antwerp, Belgium
- EXHIBITION "HASSELBLAD MASTERS 2009 ON TOUR EXHIBITION", New York, USA
- PARIS PHOTO 2007, Museum de Louvre, Paris, France