Barbara Wolff (photographer)

Barbara Wolff (* 1951 in Kyritz , Brandenburg ) is a German photographer .

Life

Barbara Wolff was born in the Prignitz region of Brandenburg as the daughter of the photographer Werner Hinz.

After graduating from high school, she completed an apprenticeship in her father's company and studied photography from 1970 to 1975 at the University of Graphic Art in Leipzig . After graduating, she worked as a freelance illustrator , photographer and graphic designer . Photo collages and montages were defining styles for her during this time . Between 1982 and 1985 she lived in Sechzehneichen in Brandenburg . This is where the long-term project about the village and its residents was born.

After an application to leave the country, Wolff moved to the Federal Republic in 1985 and settled in Munich. This was followed by stays abroad and trips, e.g. B. to Guatemala, Paris or Vietnam. Wolff has been working as a freelance photographer and graphic designer for the Linhof camera works in Munich since 1989 . From 1998 to 2011 she taught visual communication and photography at the Design School in Munich.

During her other freelance activities, she set up photographic workshops in countries such as B. led Brazil or Yemen and gave lectures on photography in China, Finland and Vietnam.

Wolff lives and works in Berlin.

Exhibitions

1978 Collages, montages, frottage , exhibition at the gallery at Sachsenplatz, Leipzig
1982 Graphics, photography, illustration , Heimatmuseum Wusterhausen / Dosse
2005 to the sea! , Lübeck – Travemünde
2006 Horizonte , Galerie Villa Ruh, Zingst
2007 Real - sorted - fictitious , Linhof Galerie, Munich
2009 to the sea! (2) , Schönberg, St. Laurentius Church
2009 Hanoi - Moving , Gedokmuc Gallery, Munich
2011 ghostwriter , Wegemuseum Wusterhausen, Transit, Wegemuseum Wusterhausen
2012 Consumption , Art Open, Wredenhagen
2014 I was here! , Wusterhausen Trail Museum
2017 On our own behalf , Collection Regard, Berlin
2018 Participation in an exhibition at the Paris-Berlin Fotohaus, Les Recontres d'Arles, France
2019 Participation in "OSMOSCOSMOS" Center de la Photographie, Geneva, www.50jpg.ch/en/
2019 Ma propre Affaire (June 5 to September 1, 2019), Musée de Vendôme, France https://promenadesphotographiques.com/
2019 biography, pictures from two German states , Casa das Artes, Belém, Brazil, with the support of the Goethe Institute Salvador and the DAAD
2020 It's the pictures that last. Photographs by Barbara Wolff , exhibition at Lunik Berlin

Stays abroad and work

1999 Yemen, establishment of a digital photo studio
2006 Imatra Art School, Finland, guest lecturer project: Rise and shine
2007 PR China, lectures on German photography and artistic projects
2008 Workshop time travel and lecture on German photography, Goethe-Institut Hanoi, Vietnam
2012 Havana, street corners project

2017 PR China, lectures on German photography

2018 exhibition participation, Fotohaus Arles

Publications

The photographic opening credits in film and television. In: Photography. January 1974, VEB Fotokinoverlag, Leipzig 1974
Montage as an illustration. In: Photography. June 1976, VEB Fotokinoverlag, Leipzig 1976
Illustration. In: Temperaments. 1/76 (first edition), New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1976
Illustrations. In: New Life. 6/77, Berlin 1977
To you. 25/1977, Berliner Verlag, Berlin 1977
Collages, montages, frottage by artists from the GDR. Exhibition catalog No. 8, Galerie am Sachsenplatz, Leipzig 1978
Collage back cover. In: Your health. February 1980, Verlag Volk und Gesundheit Berlin 1980
GDR photos: pictures from the neighbor. In: Photo hobby laboratory. 1/1987, Foto-Zeitschriftenverlag, Stuttgart 1987
Gert Schlegel, Hans Bluth, Barbara Wolff (Hrsg.): The Linhof camera book. , Photography: Anton Brandl, Layout: Barbara Wolff, Verlag Photo Technik International, Munich 1990, reprint 2000 (awarded the Kodak Photo Book Prize 1990 [1] )
Apa-Guide The new Germany. Text and photo contributions, RV Reise- und Verkehrsverlag, Berlin-Gütersloh-Munich-Stuttgart 1991 [2]
Reflections Photographs In: The Villa Stuck Munich. Bayerische Vereinsbank, Munich 1992
Peter Bauernschmid (Ed.): Image Circle. (Concept, layout, text, photography) , Munich 2002
Collection Regard (Ed.): On our own behalf. , Exhibition catalog Berlin, with a text by Sabina Mlodzianowski, Berlin 2017 [3]

literature

Collection Regard (Ed.): Barbara Wolff: In my own case. with a text by Sabina Mlodzianowski, Berlin 2017, no p. [4]

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ On own account by Barbara Wolff. Retrieved May 2, 2019
↑ "Sechzehneichen (The Consumption)" by Barbara Wolff. Retrieved April 30, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Wolff, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH	1951
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kyritz , Brandenburg

[1] On own account by Barbara Wolff. Retrieved May 2, 2019

[2] "Sechzehneichen (The Consumption)" by Barbara Wolff. Retrieved April 30, 2019 .