Short Biography Hanns Otte

Born 1955 in Salzburg.

Began working with photography in 1974. Since 1979 mainly architectural and landscape photography in the peripheries of large and small cities. From 1993 until 2007 landscape photography in the mountains.

Numerous foreign sojourns - for instance: USA and Canada, Hungary, France, Italy and Iran, as well as China in 2004 and 2005.

Numerous scholarships and prizes (2006 Austrian State Scholarship for art photography).

Until the end of 2010 a total of 129 one-man-shows and joint participation in exhibitions in Austria and abroad.

Books (monographies):
1986 "Salzburger Vorstädte"
1995 "Zwischenräume", Vexer-Verlag / St. Gallen;
1997 „Muttergestein”, Rupertinum / Salzburg;
2004 "Peripherie", Salzburger Museum Carolinum Augusteum;
2007 „Grossglockner Hochalpenstrasse“, fotohofedition / Salzburg
2008 „Linz 2003 – 2006“, fotohofedition + Landesgalerie Linz

Publications among others in:
Camera Austria, No. 13 + 15/16 (1984);
"Österreichische Photographie seit 1945", Rupertinum / Salzburg (1989);
"Fotoseite", Edition Fotohof im Otto Müller Verlag / Salzburg (1990);
"Fotokunst in Österreich", Edition Fotohof im Otto Müller Verlag / Salzburg (1992); „Eikon“, No. 7/8 (1993); “Eikon”, No. 36/37 (2001); „Eikon“, No. 43/44 (2003); "Österreich Buch 2005" (Austrian Book 2005 - german and english versions), Residenz Verlag; „Simultan – Zwei Sammlungen österreichischer Fotografie“, Christian Brandstätter Verlag (2005); „Montagne Magique“, Images en Manœuvres éditions (2006); „Last and Lost - Rediscovering Europe”, Suhrkamp Verlag (2006) and Edition Noir sur Blanc (2007); “Handbuch zum Stadtrand. Gestaltungsstrategien für den suburbanen Raum“, Birkhäuser Verlag / Basel (2007). “Iran, a Winter Journey”, fotohof edition / Salzburg (2007). „Lichtspuren - Fotografie - Die Sammlung“, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz (2008 / 2001). Catalogue to the third European month of photography Berlin / November 2008. “The Fragility of Being”, Museum der Moderne Salzburg (2009).

Lives and works in Salzburg and everywhere he feels it is important to work.