Ernst Scheidegger, born 1923 in Rorschach, Switzerland, was an associate of the prestigious ’Magnum’ photography agency, and an editor at the Swiss newspaper ´Neue Zürcher Zeitung´. He was a friend of Alberto Giacometti, the now internationally known sculptor and painter, for more than twenty years until his death. A number of photographs are the result of this friendship from the beginning in Stampa, the home of the Giacometti family in Switzerland, and the modest studio of Giacometti in Paris (France). Scheidegger has documented both Giacometti´s personality and work, and has published both of them in numerous catalogues and movies, for galleries as well as in books of his own publishing firm. 
In addition, the screen author Scheidegger produced an internationally known documentary movie about Giacometti´s life from the 50th until he died. In 2001, Scheidegger was honoured as an ´Officier de l´Ordre des Arts and Lettres´ by the French Ministry of Culture.

The exhibition is part of 2013 www.wiesbadener-fototage.de

Ernst Scheidegger -