Axel Nickolaus

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Axel Nickolaus (* 1951 in Göttingen ) is a German photographer and photo journalist. His passion is magical photography. In picture books and exhibitions, it is above all landscapes and travel reports in which he artistically deals with nature and the living environment of people. In addition, Nickolaus is dedicated to teaching photography in evening courses and weekend events.

Career

After completing a commercial apprenticeship in his hometown, he studied photo design with Meyer-Veden at the Muthesius School in Kiel and graduated in 1987 with the diploma “photo designer”. As an employee in the cultural department of the Kieler Nachrichten, he created images of artists and cultural workers. His pictures especially shaped the public image of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival for a quarter of a century. Nickolaus has his family center of life in Berlin, without having given up his long professional home in Kiel. He is still active as a photographer in Schleswig-Holstein today.

Book and exhibition WEG DER WISHEIT 1994/2017

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In addition to his mainly journalistic work, he has also portrayed companies and charities as a PR and studio photographer. Today, the extensive cultural and journalistic experience combined with the perspectives of a freelance photographer form the basis of his teaching at public institutions. Since 1983 in Kiel and since 2012 also in Berlin, these guide his participants through the facets of photography. Since 2015 his teaching activities have been flanked by the portal "fotowork24" for students and course participants, which was developed as an information and work platform. Axel Nickolaus' artistic work in the field of landscape reportage and portrait photography was self-published. Illustrated books in individual production, prints and prints show an overview of his work.

The impressions of his study trips through France, China and America are summarized in folders, which are disseminated in exhibitions and books designed by him.

Exhibitions

  • China Today, Art Gallery, exhibition at the University of Murray Kentucky, 1994
  • America America, exhibition with USA pictures in the Ministry of Culture in Kiel, 1995
  • Trümmerfrauen, exhibition on behalf of the Ministry of Women in Kiel, 1995
  • Pictures from China, exhibition in the gallery of the VHS Kiel, 1995
  • Employee portraits, exhibition at the BASF plant in Schwarzheide, 2006
  • People with Hope Exhibition for the 100th anniversary of the Lukas Congregation Berlin, 2007
  • Dat kickt lekker, exhibition about the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Dataport Kiel, 2007
  • Employee portraits, exhibition in the Hotel Scesplana, Graubünden, 2010
  • Show of a thousand pictures, exhibition in the Association of Visual Artists Kiel, 2017
  • SHFO - The international youth orchestra of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, (SHMF), Nordkolleg Rendsburg 2017
  • Way of Wisdom - Exhibition Christ Community Woltersdorf eV, 2017
  • Way of Wisdom exhibition in the Kirchenkai in Kiel 2018

Publications

  • Ingo Wulff (editor), Axel Nickolaus (illustrator): Axel Nickolaus, artist portraits. Sixty-eight photographs. Nieswand-Verlag, Kiel 1992, ISBN 3-926048-51-4 (exhibition catalog)
  • Heiko Arntz (editor); Axel Nickolaus, Michael Ruff u. a. (Photographs): The festival between the seas. Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. Murmann, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-938017-53-8
  • Sabine Schrader, Anja Wiese, Axel Nickolaus: Trends and Lifestyle Fjord and Lakes. Kiel, Eckernförde, Plön, Flensburg. New Umschau-Buchverlag, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 2008, ISBN 978-3-86528-392-4
  • Sabine Schrader, Axel Nickolaus: Craft, design, art, tradition - Schleswig-Holstein. Umschau, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 2009, ISBN 978-3-86528-454-9
  • Hanne Bahra, Axel Nickolaus: craft, design, art and tradition - Berlin. Umschau, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 2009, ISBN 978-3-86528-440-2
  • The SHMF youth orchestra, 2014 edition
  • Jazz Baltica Family, 2015 edition
  • JUBILEE The jazz booklet for Jazz Baltica from, 2015 edition
  • Jazz Baltica Family, edition 2016
  • WAY OF WISDOM, 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Nickolaus, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and photo journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen