Ingrid Hertfelder is a German artist with an international foundation in music and the arts.
She describes her work as inner and outer landscapes of the unseen, as they lie beyond the surface. Guided by an expanded understanding of landscape—ranging from the minute detail to the geographic panorama—her practice reflects the idea that even a portrait or a fragment can become landscape when viewed through the lens of individual and societal perception. This aligns with an approach in which landscape is not only physical space, but a construct shaped collectively and personally.
Her long-standing engagement with the practice of Yoga and its philosophy forms an essential part of this orientation. Within this framework, her works explore the perception of human existence as an integral part of nature. Drawn to romanticism, and often touched by a quiet melancholy, they oscillate between observation and metaphor.
Beyond the surface life begins serves as the leitmotif and conceptual origin of all her projects. She frequently draws inspiration from music, spirituality, literature, art history and philosophy.
Following artistic studies in Munich, London, New York, Savannah, New Orleans and Los Angeles, she is now based in Stuttgart. During her internship at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, she studied with master photographer Frank Stewart (Cooper Union). She later received a scholarship to the renowned Savannah College of Art and Design, graduating in 2008. Among her key inspirations are Edward Weston, Georgia O’Keeffe and Irving Penn.
She spent eleven years in the United States, working as a portrait and advertising photographer while simultaneously developing her own exhibition projects. Since returning to Germany, she has produced numerous exhibitions, art-in-architecture commissions, collaborations and book projects. Her works are represented in various public and private collections.