Jan Rieckhoff

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Jan Rieckhoff (born September 30, 1950 in Hamburg ) is a German photographer , painter , illustrator and cartoonist . He lives and works in Hamburg.

biography

Rieckhoff studied from 1975 to 1976 at the Zurich School of Applied Arts (now the Zurich University of the Arts ) and in 1976 at the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney .

From 1977 to 1981 he worked as a press photographer for various German daily newspapers, mainly for the Hamburger Abendblatt , as well as for magazines such as Spiegel , Stern and Quick . After working for six months in Pantasina ( Liguria , Italy) in 1981 and in New York in 1984/85 , he switched to illustration. Here he worked for most of the larger German magazines (including Cosmopolitan , FAZ , Focus , Merian , Playboy , Rowohlt and TransAtlantik ) and from 1991 to 1992 he was a permanent cover illustrator for Der Spiegel, and in 1993 for Stern.

Ten years followed during which he devoted himself exclusively to fine art. In 2008 he returned to illustration, which he still practices today, and added cartoons to his portfolio, which he u. a. published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Lappan Verlag .

Rieckhoff was a founding member of the Hamburger Texterschmiede and taught illustration at the Institute for Design IN.D in Hamburg in 2005/06.

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Rieckhoff practiced photography as a photo reporter for daily events. As a freelance artist, he circled the subject of computers and electronic media , examining their visual phenomena through painting. In the illustration he provides the illustration of texts as well as book and magazine covers with the focus on 'portrait'. His cartoons deal with both general and current political issues.

Working in public collections

Exhibitions

  • 1976: Galerie Manfred Besser, Hamburg, E
  • 1984: Galerie Nautilus, Hamburg, E
  • 1985: California Museum of Photography, Riverside Cal
  • 1986: Chinese Photographers Association, Shanghai
  • 1987: Art Ware, Hanover / Düsseldorf
  • 1988: Post Museum Frankfurt, Hamburg, Nuremberg, Bonn, Koblenz, Berlin (with Michael Diers)
  • 1989: Galerie Licht, Hamburg, E
  • 1997: Sparkasse Karlsruhe
  • 2002: Galerie Gardy Wiechern, Hamburg, E
  • 2005: Nord Art, Büdelsdorf
  • 2006: Large art exhibition Villa Kobe, Halle / Saale
  • 2008: Gutenberg Museum, Mainz
  • 2010: illustratio 3, factory hall A1, Rüsselsheim
  • 2011: Musée de la Caricature et du Cartoon, Vianden, Lux
  • 2011: Big Hamburg cartoon exhibition, Factory of the Arts, Hamburg
  • 2013/14: German Caricature Prize, House of the Press, Dresden
  • 2014/15/16: Caricatura - Gallery for Comic Art, Kassel
  • 2014/15: Galerie der Komische Künste, Vienna
  • 2015: 8th Caricature Triennial, Satiricum, Greiz
  • 2016: German Caricature Award, Weserburg, Bremen

Awards

  • Art Directors Club : Bronze 1989, Award 1990, Gold 1991, Bronze 2013
  • 2002: Scholarship from the Binz39 Foundation, Zurich
  • 2007: Scholarship from the Dr. Robert et al. Lina Thyll-Dürr, Stansstad, Switzerland 2007
  • 2010: Society of News Design: Award of Excellence
  • 2011: Museum of Caricature and Cartoon Vianden, Luxembourg: Mention d'honneur

literature

Books

  • More than moments, Polaroids in context (together with Klaus Modick), Marburg 1983
  • artware, art and electronics (David Galloway ed.), p. 171 ff, Munich 1987
  • Postcards, (together with Michael Diers), Heidelberg 1987
  • Love your crisis, it can only get better, Münster 2008
  • Painting in the Computer Age, in: The placement of writing, Klaus Modick, p. 123 ff, Siegen 1988

Meetings

  • European Illustration 15, Clibborn Edward Booth, New York 1988
  • Korean Design Journal 20/89
  • Novum commercial graphics 2/95
  • Freestyle 5, Raban Ruddigkeit, Mainz 2014

items

  • TAZ No. 2232: Painting in the Computer Age, For example Jan Rieckhoff's 'Pixel-Painting' v. Klaus Modick

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Rieckhoff, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer, painter, illustrator and cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg