Bildergalerie Stories 258

Photographer Heinrich Heidersberger was, in his own words, an experimenter who combined painting with inventiveness. Forever captivated by the allure of the new, experimentation is omnipresent in his photographic work. When asked to explain his reasons for taking up the challenges of technical experimentation again and again, he simply replied that “the physical, scientific, and mechanical domains” had always played “a major role” in his life.

His inexhaustible curiosity and playful and investigative ways of addressing nature and scientific phenomena often served as starting points for his work. This was also the case in 1955, when architects Hugo Constantin Bartels and Jürgen Schweitzer commissioned Heinrich Heidersberger to create a mural for the foyer of the engineering school—today the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences—in Wolfenbüttel. The result was a multi-part mural, ten-meters wide and over two-meters high, depicting the various university disciplines in a collage-like manner. Heidersberger sought to spark the imagination of students by uniting technology and aesthetics...