page_title: Nicolaus Schmidt
section_title: Photography and painting projects
hierarchical_section_title: Nicolaus Schmidt / Photography and painting projects
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Plakat für die Ausstellung WELTEN im Richard Haizmann Museum, Museum für Moderne Kunst Niebüll. Dieses ist mein ursprüngliches Design. Die gedruckte Fassung ist etwas anders. Da ich hiernach gefragt wurde, stelle ich dieses Plakat für Wikimedia Commons zur Verfügung. Voraussetzung ist allerdings, dass das Plakat in Änderungen als Ganzes mehr oder weniger erhalten bleibt. Ein Herauskopieren des Fotos aus Indien würde ich als Urheberrechtsverletzung interpretieren.English: Poster for the exhibition WELTEN at Richard Haizmann Museum, Museum of Modern Art Niebüll. This is my original design. The printed poster looks a bit different. I was asked and so I provide the file for commons. Alterations can be made if the poster remains a poster more or less. A cutting copy of the integrated photo of the Indian woman would be a copyright infringement.
context_page_description: Nicolaus Schmidt is a German artist, photographer and historian. He studied at the Hamburg Art Academy in the 1970s. In 1975, he founded ROSA, one of Germany’s first gay-themed magazines. During the 1980s, he was a volunteer with the German branch of the children’s rights organization Terre des Hommes, serving for a time as its chairman. Since 1991, he has been living and making art in the Berlin neighborhood of Prenzlauer Berg.
context_section_description: Since the end of the 1980s, Schmidt has been working on his “Morphograms,” anthropomorphic designs derived from the lines of the human body.  The works start as drawings and are transformed into paintings and sculptures.
  Another long-term project is the Kosmographie Gayhane, which Schmidt started in 2004. Gayhane is a successful Berlin nightlife event at the legendary SO36, offering Turkish gays and lesbians a place to meet.  Schmidt’s Kosmographie is both documentary and fiction.  It is a collection of  fifty photographic portraits as well as illegible words written in an oriental-looking script.
  Since 2007, the artist has been working on the New York Breakdancers Project (N.Y.P.B.). In a first show 2009 at Deutsches Haus/NYU he presents a series of large sized photographs tackling the subject of breakdance in urban space. "Nicolaus Schmidt’s photos are based on the idea of giving the 
  dancers all the freedom to perform while the artist acts as a quasi-neutral observer". (Aboli Lion) 
  In 2011 Nicolaus Schmidt portrayed New York b-boys in his book "Breakin the city". His pictures are a unique mixture between dance and architecture photography. This book marks the end of his breakdancers project.
  In his book "Astor Place - Broadway - New York" the photographer documents a barber shop where more than 50 hair stylists immigrated from all parts of the world are on work in the basement of an East Village building. Astor Place Hairstylists is one of the last stores remaining from the 1940s in Lower Manhattan. Nicolaus Schmidt captures the unique atmosphere of this living museum.
  In 2015 the exhibition „Dignity and Strength - Photographs of Women in India“ at the India International Centre in New Delhi was covered by several of the main Indian newspapers. Nicolaus Schmidt’s portrait-series reflect the situation of women, caught between tradition, religion and the modern age. The artist points at the contradictions in the relationship between women and men. The photographs reveal that even the poorest women are capable of displaying a surprising self-confidence.
caption: Nicolaus Schmidt WELTEN, poster Richard Haizmann Museum - Museum of Modern Art Niebüll
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