Hartmut Bühler

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Hartmut S. Bühler (born August 8, 1955 in Tübingen ) is a German photographer and photojournalist . He specializes in portraits of musicians, visual artists and business leaders. He lives and works in Düsseldorf .

Dennis Hopper photographed by Hartmut S. Bühler in front of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf in 1988.

Life

After attending grammar school, Hartmut Bühler completed a daily newspaper traineeship at Zollern-Alb-Kurier in Balingen and Ebingen , then at Südwest Presse in Ulm . After an assistantship with the photographer Thomas Pochert in Bergisch Gladbach , an apprenticeship as a text trainee at the Düsseldorf advertising agency Gramm & Gray followed. He then took photos for the media magazine COPY, which was published by the Düsseldorf publishing group Handelsblatt .

Hartmut Bühler has been working as a freelance photographer since 1989. In 2004 he photographed 99 portraits for the book 100 Düsseldorfer Köpfe . Ute-Henriette Ohoven ( UNESCO special ambassador), art dealer Helge Achenbach , publisher Gottfried Arnold ( Rheinische Post ), Gabriele Henkel ( Persil ), pop singer Heino , Udo van Meeteren (honorary citizen of Düsseldorf), Paul Spiegel are among the depicted celebrities in Düsseldorf , President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, the artist Markus Lüpertz , and the film director Wim Wenders .

Hartmut Bühler has been writing for the Ruhrspeak.de photo blog since 2012, a project by Pixelprojekt Ruhrgebiet , funded by the Ministry for Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. In 2014 he was appointed to the German Society for Photography DGPh e. V.

More recently, Hartmut Bühler has focused on portraits of hard rock and metal greats such as Doro Pesch and Wolf Hoffmann , lead guitarist of the German metal band Accept . Hoffmann was a professional photographer in the business, corporate and music genres in the USA. In addition, portraits of Uli Jon Roth were created . As a photographer, Hartmut Bühler runs a blog that is exclusively devoted to photographic and artistic topics.

Publications

  • 2020 THE 20s - DÜSSELDORFER PORTRAITS repeated monthly publication with interview on instagram.com/hartmut.buehler.fotografie/ and facebook.com/hsbuehler/. Funding as part of the financial security scholarship program enables artistic work even in the crisis in connection with the outbreak of Covid-19 in 2020 from the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the District Government of Düsseldorf.
  • 2019 PATIENT Gaza - A Photographic Diary by Hartmut Buehler: engl., 112 pages, 98 black and white photographs, ISBN 978-94-6226-276-8 , Verlag Lecturis, NL-Eindhoven, book design Richard Reisen - Sector Photography, image dialogue: Wolfgang Zurborn
  • 2019 A spectacular manifesto for photography - Interview with Felix Krämer , General Director and Artistic Director of the Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf Foundation : About the acquisition of the Kicken photo collection for the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, his love of photography and the debate about photography.
  • 2004 100 heads from Düsseldorf . Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf, ISBN 3-7700-1193-7 .

Exhibitions

  • 2020 Patient Gaza - a photographic appeal for hope for peace , multi-storey car park in the Malkasten (artist association) , on the occasion of Düsseldorf Photo +
  • 2019 Patient Gaza , Zakk - Center for Action, Culture and Communication , Düsseldorf
  • 2019 Works by Hartmut Buehler , Garage Studio Dubai , Al Qouz
  • 2019 Patient Gaza - A photographic Diary by Hartmut Bühler about a humanitarian mission in the European Gaza Hospital in Chan Younis / Gaza Strip, Kunstraum Michael Horbach Foundation, Cologne
  • 2019 DarasHeineWilde & Co. versus Amazon and Zeitgeist. Düsseldorf second-hand bookshops in distress. Photographs by Hartmut Bühler in the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Haus Foundation (Düsseldorf), the German-Eastern European Forum Düsseldorf and the Literature Office NRW. On the occasion of the Düsseldorf Literature Days and the Kö-book stroll.
  • 2017 Leiden creates music , photo exhibition about the world's first interdisciplinary outpatient clinic for musicians' medicine at the University Hospital Düsseldorf
  • 2015 "My Tonhalle" in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf - photo portraits of subscribers, friends and supporters of the Tonhalle Düsseldorf
  • 2014 1st International Winter Academy for New Performance Music in Schloss Benrath Düsseldorf, carried out by the composers for contemporary music Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler .
  • 2012 and 2014 group exhibitions of the Photojournalists Association Freelens e. V. Rhineland at the same time as the Photokina trade fair in Cologne.
  • 2004 Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court: Presentation of the book 100 Düsseldorf Heads and exhibition with portraits of Düsseldorf personalities.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartmut Bühler on his photo book "Patient Gaza". August 23, 2019, accessed September 18, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Özge Kabukcu: Photo exhibition in the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Haus: buying books as an experience. Retrieved June 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bühler, Hartmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bühler, Hartmut S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and photojournalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen