Past Exhibitions at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery

	Gerrit Engel: Buffalo Grain Elevators
	Selected One-Artist Exhibitions and Reviews .......................................................................................................................
	1997	Architekturgalerie, Munich, Germany. Gerrit Engel: Buffalo Grain Elevators, Jan. 23 - Feb. 24, 1997. Traveled to Architekturforum, Galerie Aedes East, Berlin, Germany, June 17 - July 8, 1997; Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, as Ikonen van de moderne architectuur: De Buffalo Grain Elevators. Architectuur fotografie van Gerrit Engel, Aug. 15 - Oct. 11, 1998; Julie Saul Gallery, New York, New York, as Gerrit Engel: Buffalo Grain Elevators, Jan. 21 - Feb. 27, 1999. "Buffalo Grain Elevators." Detail: Zeitschrift für Architektur & Baudetail & Einrichtung (Munich), March, Series 1997. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Frankfurt), June 28, 1997, p. 41, section: Kunstmarkt. "Kulturkritik." Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Radio), Jan. 16, 1997, 11:05 - 11:35 A.M., and 10:05 - 10:35 P.M. The unofficial translated transcript of this radio show is in the Artist's Subject File at the G. Robert Strauss, Jr. Memorial Library, Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Matzig, Gerhard. "Saurier sterben in Buffalo." Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich), Jan. 31, 1997, p. 15. Schulz, Bernhard. "Monumente des Industriezeitalters." Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin), June 25, 1997, section: Kultur. Werneburg, Brigitte. "Also ein Abschied von Bildern in Bildern." Die Tageszeitung (Berlin), June 21, 1997, p. 35.
	1999	Architekturgalerie, Munich, Germany. Gerrit Engel - Architekturfotografie Berlin - Marzahn, Apr. 29 - June 5, 1999. Bode, Peter M. "Marzahn – mit der Platte leben." Münchner Abendzeitung (Munich), June 1999, section: Kultur. "Grosses Interesse für Marzahner Fotos in München: Vernissage einer Foto – Ausstellung von Gerrit Engel." Berliner Abendblatt (Berlin), June 16, 1999, p. 1. Herwig, Oliver. "Aus den Betonfugen geraten: Gerrit Engel's Photos erzählen vom Alltag der Menschen im Berliner Stadtbezirk Marzahn." Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich), May 22 - 24, 1999.
	Proposal .......................................................................................................................
	1997	Engel, Gerrit. Problematik: American Museum: Architektur. This proposal to turn Concrete Central into an American museum includes written text with architectural drawings and is in the Artist's Subject File in the G. Robert Strauss, Jr. Memorial Library, Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
	Chronology .......................................................................................................................
	1965	Born in Essen, Germany.
	1975	Begins taking photographs with the encouragement of his mother, a photographer.
	1986- 90	Apprentices with a cabinetmaker.
	1990- 97	Studies architecture at Technical University, Munich, under Uwe Kiessler. Receives graduate degree.
	1994- 96	Studies photography and architecture at City College of New York, under a scholarship from Technical University, Munich. Works at the Art Commission of the City of New York.
	1995	Travels to Buffalo for the first time. Investigates and photographs the Buffalo grain elevators.
	1996- 97	Travels to Buffalo twice to take more photographs and to study construction plans and literature on the grain elevators at Buffalo¹s City Hall and Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, downtown branch. Develops a concept and architectural plan to revitalize Concrete Central. [Built 1915-17, Concrete Central is one of the earliest types of elevators made from ranks of concrete cylinders rather than the traditional structures of wood, brick, or steel. The most monumental of all the thirteen extant elevators, according to the Buffalo Architecture Guide, it is also one of the most photographed, and therefore, one of best-known to European architects.]
	1997- 99	Works as an architectural photographer, focusing more and more on his own projects.

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