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Reinhart Wolf is
considered one the leading photographers in Europe . He was born in
Berlin in 1930 as son of an architect. With a scholarship provided by
the American State Department, he studied psychology, literature and
history of art in USA and later in Paris and Hamburg .
In 1956 Reinhart
Wolf was awarded the degree of “Master Photographer” by the Bavarian
State College of Photography in Munich . He then established his own
studio for commercial photography in Hamburg . He has taught in the
faculty of the College of Design and Fashion in Hamburg and has served
as a member of numerous professional juries. He was a founder and past
president of the Art Directors Club of Germany .
He built his
Studio- Haus in Hamburg in 1969 and founded his own production company
for commercials. He has been exhibiting in one man shows in Hanover and
Munich and he has served as guest lecturer of seminars for young
photographers at various universities. In 1969 he began to use an 8 x 10
inch camera to photograph buildings and other historical structures. His
“Faces of Buildings”, presented at the Photokina 1976, won him wide
international acclaim.
At the invitation
of the Polaroid Corporation USA , Reinhart Wolf toured Georgia in 1977
and photographed buildings for another documentary series. His first
book, “Faces of Buildings” was published in 1979. His editorial
assignments have increasingly become focal point of Reinhart Wolf's
development as a photographer.
Both STERN and GEO
magazines have commissioned work from him. In the course of several
trips during 1979, Reinhart Wolf photographed the towers of New York
City . The unusual results are the basis for his book.
In the same year
he undertook a tour of Japan in order to photograph Japanese culinary
art in pictures of great austerity and sensual simplicity. For that work
he received the Gold Medal of Art Directors Club of Germany . Reinhart
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Reinhart Wolf wird als einer der
besten Photographen nicht nur in Europa, sondern auch weit über diese
Grenzen hinaus betrachtet.
Reinhart Wolf wurde am 1. August 1930
in Berlin geboren, der Vater war Architekt, die Mutter Zeichenlehrerin.
Auch er wollte, wie der Vater, Architektur studieren, jedoch stellte
sich sehr schnell heraus, dass ihm dieses Metier nicht lag. So widmete
er sich in Hamburg dem Studium der Literatur, Kunstgeschichte und
Psychologie. Ein Stipendium brachte ihn an das Wabash College in
Crawsfordville , Indiana, wo er erstmals Fotos von Irving Penn und
Edward Weston kennen lernte . Diese Begegnung führte dazu, sich nach der
Rückkehr aus Amerika zu entschliessen, Photograph zu werden.
Zunächst besuchte er die Fotoschule A. Schwoerer in Hamburg, legte 1956
die Meisterprüfung an der Bayerischen Lehranstalt für Photographie in
München ab. Er kehrte nach Hamburg zurück und richtete sein eigenes
Studio für Werbephotographie ein. Parallel zur Werbephotographie begann
er mit einer 18 x 24 cm Kamera, Fassaden von Gebäuden zu photographieren
– "Gesichter von Gebäuden". 1979 photographierte er die Türme der
Wolkenkratzer von New York, dokumentiert in einem vielfach
ausgezeichneten Buch. 1981/82 entstand die Serie der "Burgen von
Spanien".
Reinhart Wolf war
Gründungsmitglied und Präsident des Art Director's Club in Deutschland
und New York, Mitglied zahlreicher Fachjurys, Gastdozent verschiedener
Hochschulen und hatte Einzelausstellungen in Paris, Hamburg, München,
Frankfurt, Hannover, Nürnberg, Houston, Lausanne, Genf, Zürich sowie auf
der Photokina in Köln. Er erhielt den Kulturpreis der Deutschen
Gesellschaft für Photographie sowie mehrere Goldmedaillen des Art
Director's Club. Reinhart Wolf starb am 10. November 1988 in Hamburg .
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