Gabriele Seethaler

about the artist

In the year 1994 Gabriele Seethaler began to visit photography classes like at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg with Prof. Katharina Sieverding. With her series IMMORTAL IDENTITIES, Gabriele Seethaler traces the multiple thinking of great eupean personalities in a subtle way. Philosophers, writers, artists, scientists, componists and statesmen are being vistied on their working places, all around Europe, where they got immortality through meaningful monuments and other spaces. The photographic recordings of the monuments melt together into new collages through digital manipulation and multiple exposures with historical photographies. The artist uses the almost forgotten lenticular picture technique as a representation from the 40s and creates icons in large format three-dimensional portraits