Juergen Teller (photographer)

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Juergen Teller (2013)

Juergen Teller (* 1964 in Erlangen ) is a German photographer .

Life

Teller, who came from a family of violin makers , grew up in Bubenreuth near Erlangen and began an apprenticeship as bow maker after school , which he broke off due to a dust allergy. From 1984 to 1986 he studied at the Photo Design Academy in Munich . In September 1986 he moved to London to avoid compulsory military service , where he has lived and worked ever since. Thanks to the photographer Nick Knight , he soon got orders from the music industry and portrayed musicians such as the Cocteau Twins , Sinéad O'Connor and Morrissey for record covers. At the end of the 80s, Teller began taking photos for zeitgeist and fashion magazines such as iD , The Face and Arena.

He met the stylist Venetia Scott, with whom he often worked. They have a daughter together. He is married to Sadie Coles, director of Sadie Coles HQ gallery . With her he has a son.

In 1991 he got the opportunity to accompany the as yet unknown band Nirvana on their Nevermind tour. His portraits of Kurt Cobain later became famous.

The photo series Versace-Heart , created in 1996 on behalf of SZ-Magazin , which in unadorned, quasi-documentary nudes of the model Kristen McMenamy, reproduces the physical exertion that a mannequin has to endure while working on a fashion presentation, made Teller one of the stars of the contemporary Photography. In many of his other pictures, too, he develops the idea of ​​imperfect beauty; Supermodels are not stylized perfectly as usual, but z. B. without make-up, with visible blemishes and scars or in ostensibly awkward poses. In the 1990s he revolutionized the fashion scene and has worked for numerous well-known labels since then. His pictures are often strongly autobiographical, some works such as B. Märchenstüberl show how he explored his youth and his homeland.

Other celebrities Teller portrayed include supermodels Kate Moss and Linda Evangelista and musicians Courtney Love , Björk , PJ Harvey , and Patti Smith . In 2004 he directed Boris Becker and Claudia Schiffer for Strenesse . Most recently, he created a catalog for the auction house Phillips de Pury & Company , of which he is a member of the Advisory Board, for the Magnificient Jewels auction in Geneva on May 17, 2005. He photographed his clan from Bubenreuth in Central Franconia in a very strange way. Teller's books have been published by Steidl Verlag in Göttingen since the late 1990s .

Since January 2014 he has been Professor of Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg .

Juergen Teller works with Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin.

Works

Individual works

  • Juergen Teller . Taschen Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-8228-8310-7
  • With Michael Rutschky : The hidden Brecht . A Berlin city tour . Scalo 1998, ISBN 3-931141-71-3
  • Go-Sees . Scalo 1999
  • Costume . Lehmann Maupin 2001
  • More . Steidl , Göttingen 2002
  • Fairytale parlor . Exhibition catalog, Steidl 2002
  • Two Schäuferle with dumpling and a children's portion of schnitzel with french fries . Steidl, 2003
  • With Charlotte Rampling : Louis XV . Steidl 2004
  • Naked on the soccer field . Steidl 2004
  • The Master . Steidl 2005
  • Louis XV (together with Charlotte Rampling), Steidl 2005
  • Nuremberg . Steidl 2004
  • Untitled (together with: Cindy Sherman, Marc Jacobs). Steidl 2006
  • Do you know what I mean . Catalog for the exhibition of the same name, Actes-Sud / Thames & Hudson 2006
  • Vivienne Westwood , Steidl 2008
  • Election Day , Steidl 2009
  • Marc Jacobs - Advertising 1998–2009 , Steidl 2009
  • The Master 2 , Steidl 2010
  • The Master: v.2 , Steidl 2010
  • The Master 3: v.3 , Steidl 2010
  • Deste Fashion Collection , Steidl 2010
  • Zimmermann , Steidl 2010
  • The Keys to the House , Steidl 2012
  • Winner flyer . Steidl, 2014
  • Enjoy your life! With the plate to Bonn . Steidl, 2016
  • Handbags . Steidl, 2019
  • The Master IV . Steidl, 2019
  • 50 Times Bonami and Obrist by Teller. (together with Francesco Bonami). Steidl, 2019
  • Plumtree Court. Steidl, 2020

Record cover (selection)

  • Kylie Minogue : Album Let's Get To It (1991)
  • Björk: US version of the single Big Time Sensuality
  • Elton John
  • New Order : Get Ready (album, 2001), 60 Miles an Hour (single from it) - a recording by Nicolette Krebitz
  • as well as: Elastica, Hole, Cocteau Twins, Sinead O 'Connor, Everything but the Girl, Scritti Politti, Stereo MCs, PM Dawn, Terry Hall, Herbert Grönemeyer, Babaa Maal, Richie Rich, Neneh Cherry, Soul II Soul, Texas, Supergrass , Terranova, DJ Shadow, Fischerspooner

Advertising Campaigns (Overview)

  • Strenesse , u. a. 2004 with Boris Becker and Claudia Schiffer
  • Anna Molinari, Blumarine, Miu Miu, Comme des Garcons, Helmut Lang, Hugo Boss, Katharine Hamnett , Jigsaw, Yves Saint Laurent, Calvin Klein, "Eternity" Commercials, Alberto Biani and Alessandro Dell 'Aqua, Zucca, Marc Jacobs, Marc, Stussy, Shisedo, Louis Vuitton, Amex, Matsuda, Toyota, Calvin Klein Perfume, Rolex, Microsoft, Italian Telecom, Ungaro, Marc Jacobs Perfume, Adidas.

Film projects (overview)

  • Video Go-Sees, 2001
  • Commercial for Eternity (Calvin Klein), 2001 and 1996
  • World Cup Final Germany vs. Brazil 0-2, 2002
  • CFDA awards: Marc Jacobs short film
  • Short film "Can I Own Myself" Kate Moss

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • Juergen Teller . Photographers Gallery, London, 1998.
  • Pitti Immagine Discovery . Florence, 1999.
  • Juergen Teller . Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, 2000.
  • Fairytale parlor . Munich, Essen, Bologna, Haarlem, 2002/2003.
  • Two Schäuferle with dumpling and a children's portion of schnitzel with French fries , Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, 2003.
  • Don't suffer too much , Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, 2003.
  • Traditional costume , Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, 2003.
  • Daddy You're so cute , Lehmann Maupin, New York, 2003.
  • I am forty . Kunsthalle Wien, 2004.
  • Go-sees and World cup final, Germany v Brazil 0-2 , Temple Bar Visual Arts, Dublin, 2004.
  • The Master , Modern Art, London, 2004.
  • Louis XV , Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, 2005.
  • Do you know what I mean , Cartier Foundation, Paris, 2006.
  • Awailable , Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2007.
  • Ukraine , Lehmann Maupin, New York, USA, 2008.
  • Nuremberg , gallery owner, Istanbul, Turkey, 2008.
  • Teller , Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands, 2009.
  • Juergen Teller. Logical! , Kunsthalle Nürnberg , 2009/2010.
  • Juergen Teller: Woo! , Institute of Contemporary Arts , London , 2013.
  • Juergen Teller. Enjoy your life! , Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany , 2016; Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin 2017 (curator Susanne Kleine).

Group exhibitions

  • Jam , Barbican Exhibition, London, 1996
  • New Universe , Biennale di Firenze, Firenze, Italy, 1996
  • Mayday communities , Photographers Gallery, London, 1999
  • Remake Berlin . Winterthur Photo Museum, 2000
  • 90 × 60 × 90 , Museo Jacobo Borges, Caracas, Venezuela, 2000
  • Living in the Real World , Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Belgium, 2000
  • Empresa Fotografica , Programa Centro de Arte, Mexico City, 2000/2001
  • Century Cities . Tate Modern, London, 2001
  • Citibank Photography Prize 2003 , u. a. Düsseldorf, 2003
  • The Fleeting Moment Between Photography and Cinema , Fondazione Torino Museum, Torino, Italy, 2003
  • Fashioning Fiction: Photography since 1990 , MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2004
  • Il Nudo , Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, 2004
  • The site , Kunsthalle, Nuremberg, 2008
  • NOT IN FASHION. Fashion and photography of the 90s , Museum of Modern Art (MMK), Frankfurt am Main

Awards

  • Citibank Photography Prize 2003

Public collections

  • Bank Hofmann AG , Zurich
  • Deutsche Börse AG , Frankfurt a. M.
  • Photo museum in the Münchner Stadtmuseum , Munich
  • Frans Hals Museum , Haarlem
  • Folkwang Museum , Essen
  • Museum Morsbroich , Leverkusen
  • Collection Fc Grundlach , Hamburg
  • MMK Museum for Modern Art , Frankfurt a. M.

literature

  • Jörn Glasenapp : "To see more of Seymour: Juergen Teller and the fashion-photographic service to truth." In: Fotogeschichte , Jg. 25 (2005), H. 98, pp. 45-48.
  • Jörn Glasenapp: German Post-War Photography: A History of Mentalities in Pictures. , Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn 2008, pp. 352–373.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography of Juergen Teller ( Memento of the original from August 1, 2012 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / juergenteller.tumblr.com
  2. ^ Announcement on the exhibition , accessed on August 31, 2014.
  3. ↑ MMK Frankfurt am Main | Museum of Modern Art: Exhibition details ::: MMK Frankfurt am Main. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 9, 2018 ; Retrieved June 29, 2017 .

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personal data
SURNAME Teller, Juergen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH gain