Gregor Törzs

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Gregor Törzs

Gregor Törzs (born January 28, 1970 in Hamburg ) is a German director , photographer and former actor .

Life

Gregor Törzs is the son of the former television announcer Dénes Törzs . In his hometown Hamburg Gregor Törzs began as a 17-year-old to work in an advertising agency, was promoted to production assistants and decided at the age of 19 years, Germany to leave and to Los Angeles to draw, where he worked as a camera assistant , producer assistant , lighting technician and cameraman worked . In Los Angeles he learned the film trade with John Dykstra and Doug Smith in the special visual effects Apogee . In 1993 he received the position of “Director of Photography” and realized various cinema and advertising projects with Michel Comte . With that he established himself as a cameraman. He worked with Sophia Loren , Geraldine Chaplin and Nastassja Kinski .

His acting career began unplanned. In 1996 he was booked as a cameraman for the MTV advertising campaign hot and fat when the director of the campaign, Martin Schmid, discovered his acting talent. This resulted in almost 30 film and television productions as an actor, although Törzs did not give up and continued his work as a cameraman and director.

Törzs has been focusing on photography since 2006. His animal series Boy on Safari has been exhibited several times. The fashion designer Wolfgang Joop was inspired by this series for his fashion label Wunderkind and used five of Törzs' motifs for the autumn and winter collection 2009. His other work series include the underwater project Ciel Lourd and the microscope photography series Plus Grand Que Moi with depictions of Insects, clockworks and diamonds in high sharpness that were developed using platinum printing .

Törzs lives in Berlin.

Awards (selection)

  • 1996: Art Directors Club Germany 2 × silver and an award for the MTV campaign hot and fat
  • 1996: London international Advertising Festival - finalist for the MTV campaign hot and fat
  • 1996: Berlin flap in gold for the MTV campaign hot and fat
  • 2010: Art Directors Club Germany 2 × bronze for directing short film and sales promotion directing - Jenseitsnovelle short film

Filmography (selection)

Exhibitions (selection)

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  • 2007: Galerie Cometer solo exhibition Boy on Safari
  • 2010: Galerie Persiehl and Heine solo exhibition Ciel Lourd
  • 2010: APAD New York with Galerie Stockeregg
  • 2010: Solo exhibition at the Stockeregg Gallery
  • 2010: Solo exhibition at the Wunderkind Flagship Store Berlin for the 2010 Fall Winter collection
  • 2012: Montblanc Cutting Edge Art Collection
  • 2013: Bernheimer Fine Art Photography Munich Platinum
  • 2014: Bernheimer Fine Art Photography Munich anniversary exhibition 150 years of Bernheimer
  • 2015: Photo London, Galerie Bernheimer
  • 2015: art Karlsruhe, Persiehl & Heine
  • 2016: Bright Days Ahead , group exhibition, Persiehl & Heine
  • 2016: Cologne Fine Art, Persiehl & Heine
  • 2016: Fragile Worlds , Galerie Bernheimer
  • 2017: Bright Days Ahead 17 , group exhibition, Persiehl & Heine
  • 2017: Paris Photo, Galerie Bernheimer
  • 2017: art Karlsruhe, Persiehl & Heine
  • 2018: photo basel, Persiehl & Heine
  • 2018: POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair, Persiehl & Heine
  • 2018: paper positions, Munich, Persiehl & Heine

Web links

Commons : Gregor Törzs  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gregor Törz's portrait at prisma.de
  2. ↑ http://www.kino.de/star/gregor-toerzs/93962
  3. ↑ Gregor Törzs: Longing for the Swiss Army Knife ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Interview with Gregor Törzs (2009) at Yahoo! Lifestyle  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / de.lifestyle.yahoo.com
  4. ↑ http://www.stern.de/lifestyle/mode/wolfgang-joop-auf-der-fashion-week-ein-wunderkind-brauch-keinen-starrummel-705261.html
  5. ^ Gregor Törzs Biography. Retrieved November 14, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Törzs, Gregor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Toerzs, Gregor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director, photographer and former actor of Hungarian descent
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg