Franz G. Messenbaeck

Bischofshofen, AT
stillandlife
About Franz G.

Franz G. Messenbaeck is a photographer and surgeon in Bischofshofen and Schwarzach, Salzburg, Austria. He con-
siders both professions as complementary. The precision of surgery influences photography, aesthetic sensibilities
of photography bring advantages in surgery. Franz G. Messenbaeck started photographing during his time as a
student of medicine in Vienna and gained his first experiences in the darkroom in 1985. Fascinated by the American
landscape photographers of the last century, he decided to work with a large format camera at quite an early date.
For the last nine years, Franz has only been recording pictures on a digital camera. Previously, he had concentrated
on black-and-white shots, but the digital workflow also disclosed the world of colour photography to him.
Since 2009, Franz G. Messenbaeck has been working as a professional photographer now. His passion is landscape
photography. In addition, he runs a portrait studio in the city of Bischofshofen near Salzburg in Aus-
tria. He travels a lot, mainly to the American West and to Northern Europe, where he enjoys the solitary landscapes
full of structures and abstractions. These landscapes are an energetic supplement and a relaxing counterpoint for
his surgical work too.
In 2013 Franz G. Messenbaeck was awarded the prestigious Master QEP (Master Qualified European Photographer)
by the Federation of European Professional Photographers (FEP). And in 2016, the german association Bund Pro-
fessionaller Porträtfotografen (bpp) gave the quality award Professional Photographer of High Quality (HQbpp) to
Franz G. Messenbäck, as the second Austrian photographer.