Dieter Blum

Dieter Blum (* 1936 in Eßlingen am Neckar ) is a contemporary German photographer .

Life

Dieter Blum has been working as a freelance photographer in the field of culture and reportage since 1964, for magazines such as Der Spiegel , Stern , Time and Vanity Fair , among others . He lives and works in Düsseldorf .

In the early 1980s he photographed the Berlin Philharmonic under conductor Herbert von Karajan . Since then he has devoted a large part of his work to the subjects of music, dance and art. In addition to two illustrated books about the Berliner Philharmoniker (1983 under Herbert von Karajan and on the occasion of the orchestra's 125th anniversary in 2007), which he accompanied on their travels for over 25 years, he also created books about the former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Karlheinz Böhm in Africa. He devoted several photo books to dance photography ( Vladimir Malachow , Ecstasy I, II and III , Pure Dance , Dance and Eros I and II ).

Between 1992 and 2004, Blum was the only European photographer alongside the Swiss Hannes Schmid to photograph the worldwide Marlboro campaign.

Exhibitions

1972 photokina solo exhibition: The Adventure
1976 Africa City Museum Munich
1982 Museum of Ethnology-Hamburg USSR
1987 Kunsthalle Mannheim
1987 Kodak Gallery Tokyo, Ginza
1994 Holtmann Gallery, Cologne
1995 Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
1996 State Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage
1997 Frankfurter Kunstverein
1998 German Dance Archive Cologne - SK Foundation Culture
1999 Museum of Cultures Basel-Basler Fasnacht
2003 Gallery of the City of Stuttgart
2003/2004 State Russian Museum St Petersburg
2004 Museum of Photography Moscow
2005 Venice Biennale
2005 Gallery Terminus Munich
2006 Galerie Vonderbank Frankfurt / Main
2007 Gallery Frankfurt
2009 2nd floor gallery, Rottweil
2010 The Amen Break , Gallery Thomas Flor
2011 Esslinger Kunstverein, Villa Merkel Esslingen
2015 The Photographer , Venet-Haus Gallery, Neu-Ulm
2015 Galerie Atelier Gustave, Paris
2016 foto.com , Esslinger Kunstverein, Villa Merkel Esslingen.
2016 Cowboys , Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
2017 Blue Horses The tower of the blue horses by Franz Marc, State Graphics Collection Munich
2018 Cowboys - The First shooting 1992 , The Granary Art Gallery, Weston Park (GB)
2018 Wild X , Museum The Kennedys, Berlin
2019 Maestri - Music and Passion , Gallery Camera Work, Berlin
2019 The discovery of the visible , Kunstverein KISS, Untergröningen Castle

Awards

1969 Gold and Honorary Prize, International Photo Salon de Bordeaux
1972 Obelisk, for the exhibition: The Adventure Africa, Photokina
1982 Word Press Photo Award, for the pictures of the Berlin Philharmonic and Herbert von Karajan in Stern
2001 Staufer Medal for the book: The River of Life
2002 Art Directors Club for Marlboro
2015 Grande médaille de Vermeil, Arts-Sciences-Lettres

literature

Renate Wiehager, Daimler Art Collection (ed.): Dieter Blum Cowboys - The First Shooting , Hatje Cantz Verlag Ostfildern, 1992, ISBN 978-3-7757-4166-8 .
Peter Bizer, Jürgen Dormann, Wolfgang Behnken (Eds.): Berliner Philharmoniker , photos Dieter Blum, translated by Büro Dr. Gaines, Edition Braus , Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89904-274-0 ( German and English ).
Dieter Blum: Cattedrali del corpo / La Biennale di Venezia. Fondazione Teatro la Fenice , teNeues , Kempen / Düsseldorf / London / Madrid / New York, NY / Paris 2005, ISBN 3-8327-9091-8 (3rd International Festival of Contemporary Dance Venice, June 9, 2005 to July 3, 2005, Essays: Jeremy Gaines (English) double volume with: Pure dance: photographs of the Stuttgart Ballet , Essays: Reid Anderson, translated by Jermey Geines (German, English, French, Spanish, Italian)).
Dieter Blum, Konrad Rufus Müller (photos); Wolfgang Behnken (Ed.): Mensch Schröder, der Acker, der Gerhard, der Kanzler , translated by Werkstatt München, book production Jon Smale, teNeues, Kempen / Düsseldorf / London / Madrid / New York, NY / Paris 2005, ISBN 3-8327 -9084-5 (German and English).

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Dieter Blum, Emanuel Eckardt: The Orchestra: Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic . 535 of Bibliophile Paperback Books. Harenberg, 1988 ( Google Books ).

personal data
SURNAME	Blum, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH	1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Esslingen am Neckar

[buch-ywUCgDWjbGsC--1] Dieter Blum, Emanuel Eckardt: The Orchestra: Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic . 535 of Bibliophile Paperback Books. Harenberg, 1988 ( Google Books ).