Isolde Ohlbaum

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Isolde Ohlbaum (born October 24, 1953 in Moosburg an der Isar ) is a German photographer . She achieved fame by portraying almost all of the important German-language writers as well as numerous international authors of the late 20th century.

Life

Isolde Ohlbaum grew up in Munich . From 1970 to 1972 she attended the Bavarian State College for Photography (now FH Munich, Faculty 12 Design, Photo Design). After initially working in photojournalism, she discovered a tendency towards portraits. Since then she has been working as a freelancer for publishers, newspapers and magazines. Above all, writers are portrayed in their very own “handwriting”, which responds to the personality of the person photographed. Many books emerge from her work and she has received awards. Her pictures can be seen at exhibitions in many European cities.

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Isolde Ohlbaum photographs writers, from young talents to Nobel Prize winners. Ohlbaum refuses to ascribe finality to the photographed image - in contrast to the painted portrait. For her, both representations are the result of a creative encounter, contain the subjective, are snapshots. Therefore, the result is never predictable. She herself: “So much depends on the respective circumstances, which contact, dialogue, which atmosphere can arise between two people who may have never met before.” She was therefore also referred to as a “writer face researcher ” ( Michael Krüger ).

Further topics are flowers, sculptures, cemeteries. Here the photographer's gaze is sensual and melancholy, she plays with blurring, shadows and the finest nuances. Like the pictures of the Baroque painters, her floral still lifes are reminiscent of earthly transience. Rolf Hochhuth : "Never before has the close connection between Eros and Thanatos, love and death been shown so impressively." The stone bodies are given a peculiar liveliness through light and shadow, moisture and moss.

Her volume and the exhibition Readers show reading people in the most varied of places and in moments of greatest intimacy, without exposing those portrayed.

In addition to cats, Berlin, angels, children, girls, she also put landscapes in the picture: for example Emilia-Romagna in Guest at Verdi . Giuseppe Verdi's father was a village innkeeper in Le Roncole near Busseto ; The composer later had his model estate Sant'Agata (now a museum) built nearby. Ohlbaum shows the scenic beauties of this region.

Isolde Ohlbaum also illustrated a volume on Gustav Klimt .

Books

  • Images of an industry . Ullstein , Berlin 1979
  • Photo opportunity - Faces of German literature . Fischer , Frankfurt am Main 1984
  • Because all pleasure wants eternity . Greno , Nördlingen 1986
  • Eyes, looks - moments . Greno, Nördlingen 1987
  • Portraits . Knesebeck , Munich 1993
  • From light and shadow - angel pictures . Knesebeck, Munich 1994
  • Girl . Bertelsmann , Munich 1996
  • Cats . Foreword by Elke Heidenreich . Bertelsmann, Munich 1997
  • In the poets' garden . Gina Kehayoff, Munich 1997
  • Authors, authors . A picture book. Foreword by Elke Heidenreich. Ars vivendi , Cadolzburg 2000
  • Klagenfurt texts 2001 (photos). Young and Young , Salzburg 2001
  • Frau Faltermeier's flower shop . Sanssouci , Munich 2001
  • The carousel in the English Garden . Texts by Eva Demski . Sanssouci, Munich 2002
  • The time and the time after . A search for traces in the cemeteries of Berlin. Text: Christa Dericum . Nicolai , Berlin 2002
  • Be a child . Droemer , Munich 2003
  • Guest of Gustav Klimt . Text by Joachim Nagel . Collection Rolf Heyne, Munich 2003
  • Berlin . Preface by Tilman Spengler . Nicolai, Berlin 2004
  • Reading . Ars vivendi, Cadolzburg 2006
  • Images of literary life. Photographs from four decades . Schirmer , Munich 2008
  • Away games - authors on the move . Foreword by Wilhelm Genazino , Wallstein Verlag , Göttingen 2009
  • Man wants to be a fish and a bird . Schirmer, Munich 2011
  • From Ali to Zappa . Foreword by Michael Krüger , Wunderhorn Verlag , Heidelberg 2014 - nominated for the German Photo Book Prize
  • Poetry of flowers . ars vivendi Verlag, Cadolzburg 2016
  • Read & write . ars vivendi Verlag, Cadolzburg 2017

Community work

  • Doris Lessing's cat book - With cat portraits by Isolde Ohlbaum . Klett-Cotta Verlag , Stuttgart 1999
  • A guest at Verdi . Text by Eva Gesine Baur . Collection Rolf Heyne , Munich 2000
  • You don't have to love Munich - with photographs by Isolde Ohlbaum . Text by Wolfgang Koeppen . Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002
  • The time and the time after - A search for traces in the cemeteries of Berlin with photos by Isolde Ohlbaum. Text by Christa Dericum . Nicolai, Berlin 2003
  • Guest of Gustav Klimt . Text by Joachim Nagel. Collection Rolf Heyne, Munich 2003
  • In the quiet house - With photographs by Isolde Ohlbaum . Text by Norbert Hummelt . edition monacensia , Munich 2009
  • Been, not forgotten - the old northern cemetery in Munich . Text by Axel Winterstein. MünchenVerlag , Munich 2012
  • And how beautiful is the world - with photographs by Isolde Ohlbaum . Matthias Reiner ( ed .). Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2014, special edition 2019
  • Faces of Africa . Text Günter Kunert . Donat Verlag , Bremen 2015

Exhibition catalogs

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data of Isolde Ohlbaum at Discogs
  2. ↑ ohlbaum.de - Archive / Search. Retrieved January 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Schwabinger Art Prize on München.de (accessed on July 26, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Ohlbaum, Isolde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Moosburg on the Isar