Horst Tappe

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Horst Tappe (born May 13, 1938 in Gütersloh , Germany ; † August 21, 2005 in Vevey , Switzerland ) was a German photographer who had lived in Switzerland since 1963.

Life

Horst Tappe was born in Gütersloh in 1938 (not 1941, as partially published). After basic training in a traditional photo studio and an internship at the Hamburg School of Photography, he attended Marta Hoepffner's courses at the School for Experimental Photography in Hofheim am Taunus near Frankfurt am Main . At the photo school in Vevey, Switzerland, he completed his training with Oswald Ruppen with the acquisition of the Swiss master's degree. From 1965 until his death he lived and worked in Territet - Veytaux on the Vaud Riviera . He traveled regularly to major cities in Europe, where he liked to photograph personalities from the visual arts, literature, music and politics. Tappe's portrait photographs have appeared in daily newspapers and magazines around the world for decades and have been presented to the public in numerous personal exhibitions.

Tappe was friends with the writer Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) and the painter and graphic artist Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980) for many years . Both lived like Tappe on Lake Geneva, the photographer immortalized both in countless portraits; A selection of these photos - supplemented by quotations from the portrayed - is available in the form of two books.

Just a few months after the publication of his Kokoschka illustrated book, Horst Tappe died at the age of 67 after a brief serious illness in the Hôpital du Samaritain in Vevey.

Works

Portrait photographs of around 5000 writers, visual artists, musicians, politicians and celebrities - among them Konrad Adenauer , Isabel Allende , Willy Brandt , Elias Canetti , Charlie Chaplin , Noël Coward , Salvador Dalí , Ian Fleming , Patricia Highsmith , Ernst Jünger , Gabriel García Márquez , Pablo Picasso , Ezra Pound , Salman Rushdie , Georges Simenon , Susan Sontag , Wole Soyinka , Igor Stravinsky and Peter Ustinov .

Exhibitions

1999: Montreux , Cognac ; 2000: Saint-Malo ; 2002: Bern , Saint Petersburg , Basel , Chiasso ; 2003: Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg , Moscow ; 2004: Stuttgart , Paris ; 2005: Leipzig , New York , Washington

literature

  • Ezra Pound, Alan Levy, Horst Tappe: "The Voice of Silence" , Permanent Press (NY) 1983, ISBN 093296625X
  • Ralf Sonnenberg, Dietrich Wasser, Lorenzo Ravagli, Günter Röschert, Michael Muschalle, Earl J Ogletree, Horst Tappe: "Edition thrithemius. Vol. 7th 1999" , Novalis Media AG 1999, ISBN 3907260066
  • Horst Tappe, Tilo Richter (ed.): "Nabokov" , Gva Basel 2001, ISBN 3-85616-152-X
  • Horst Tappe, Tilo Richter (ed.): "Kokoschka" , Gva Basel 2005, ISBN 3-85616-235-6

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personal data
SURNAME Tap, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Gutersloh
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 2005
Place of death Vevey , Switzerland