Michael Ruetz

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Michael Ruetz (born April 4, 1940 in Berlin ) works as an artist and author . He is internationally recognized as a photographer .

Life

Michael Ruetz was born in Berlin in 1940 . His ancestors come from Riga , where they worked as printers, journalists and publishers. After finishing school in Bremen , Michael Ruetz studied Sinology , Japanese Studies and Journalism in Freiburg , Munich and Berlin . 1966 first photographic publications and abandonment of the philology studies, in which he had worked on a dissertation on the novel Nieh-Hai Hua (1905) by Tseng-P'u . From 1969 to 1973 he was a photo reporter on the Stern editorial team in Hamburg. First exhibitions of his work took place in Berlin in 1970 and Vienna in 1973 and 1972 staff at the Documenta V . In 1975, Michael Ruetz passed the exams with Otto Steinert and Willy Fleckhaus at the Folkwangschule Essen as an external student . He then went into business for himself and has been working as a freelance author and photographer ever since .

Michael Ruetz has been contract author for Little, Brown & Co./New York Graphic Society, Boston , Massachusetts, since 1981 . In 1982 he accepted a full professor at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig , where he taught photography in the field of communication design until 2005 . Michael Ruetz spent a total of 12 years in Italy , Australia and the USA during several stays abroad . In 2002 he organized a major retrospective by Heinz Hajek-Halke in the Center Georges Pompidou , Paris.

Michael Ruetz is a member of the DGPh , the Gesellschaft Deutscher Lichtbildner (GDL) / Deutsche Foto Akademie and the Akademie der Künste, Berlin . In May 2002 he was appointed to the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, Jean-Jacques Aillagon .

Act

Michael Ruetz became known at the end of the 1960s for his pictures of the West German student movement . The photos of the Berlin APO time, in which he participated as a chronicler, were published in the major periodicals such as Time , Life , Spiegel and Zeit and later appeared under the title You just have to look this guy in the face. APO Berlin 1966–1969 in book form.

In the 1960s and 1970s he toured the GDR on behalf of Stern , a. a. during the World Youth Festival in 1973 and May 1, 1974. Michael Ruetz also photographed the actors and liquidators of the Prague Spring . In other reports he showed Greece at the time of the military dictatorship , Chile after Salvador Allende's election victory and Guinea-Bissau in the war of independence. Portraits of François Mitterrand , Helmut Kohl and other European politicians date from around 1970 .

With projects such as Nekropolis and numerous series of images, which are thematically based on the journeys of Goethe and Fontane ( On Goethe's footsteps , Also I in Arcadia / Goethe's Italian journey , Fontane's walks through the Mark Brandenburg ), he increasingly turned to cultural-historical and documentary projects.

Newer projects deal with the possibilities of visualizing time and transience. The Second Look , Timescape and The Unrelated Look document the change in the “visible environment” over time. Under the title Eye on Time , Michael Ruetz dedicates himself to the same object and topic at longer intervals and thus records changes and developments in the same place over the years.

Awards

  • Kodak Photo Book Prize for On Goethe's Footsteps , Nekropolis , APO / Berlin 1966–1969 and Land of the Greeks
  • 1979 Most beautiful book in Switzerland for Mit Goethe in Switzerland

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

1968. The Inconvenient Time Academy of the Arts
  • 1969 Berlin, Galerie Mikro
  • 1974 Hamburg, Kunsthalle, The World of Caspar David Friedrich
  • 1975 Lisbon, German Institute
  • 1976 Berlin, Bielefeld, Göttingen, Hamburg, Copenhagen and Munich, Nekropolis
  • 1977 Berlin, Landesbildstelle, pictures from Germany 1968–1975
  • 1979 Zurich, Helmhaus, In Goethe's footsteps
  • 1980 Düsseldorf, Goethe Museum, In Goethe's footsteps
  • 1981 Houston / Texas, Benteler Galleries
  • 1987 Carmel / California, Photography West Gallery
  • 1989–1995 Kiel, Harburg, Rendsburg, Itzehoe, Buxtehude, Lüneburg, Flensburg, Neumünster, Ahrensburg, Preetz, Rostock and Schwerin, I too in Arcadia
  • 1992 Potsdam, Kulturhaus, Theodor Fontane
  • 1995 Berlin, German Historical Museum , Visible Time
  • 1998 Berlin, Willy Brandt House, An age is visited
  • 1999 Palermo, Goethe-Institut , Goethe in Arcadia, Et me in Italia
  • 2001 Kunsthaus Lempertz , Berlin, Cologne and Brussels, WindAuge
  • 2001 Cologne, Galerie Priska Pasquer, Timescape, a Palimpsest and The Sixties in vintage prints
  • 2001 Kunsthalle Erfurt, WindAuge, Timescape - 2 picture cycles
  • 2005 Berlin, Academy of the Arts , Eye on Time
  • 2014 Berlin, Museum of Photography , The Absolute Landscape

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1968 Prague
  • 1972 Kassel, documenta 5
  • 1973, 1979 Essen, Museum Folkwang
  • 1974, 1978 London, Institute of Contemporary Arts
  • 1976 Vienna, Amnesty International Congress
  • 1977, 1980 Munich, Munich Photo Museum
  • 1979 Cologne, DGPh gallery
  • 1980, 1982 Washington, DC, Sander Gallery
  • 1980 Baltimore, Maryland, The Maryland Institute
  • 1980 Munich, Munich Photo Museum
  • 1981 Houston, Texas, Benteler Galleries and Rice University
  • 1982 New York, Photographic Art Dealers Convention
  • 1985 Rome, German Academy / Villa Massimo
  • 1995 Hanover, Kunstverein and Sprengel Museum
  • 1997 Bonn, Art Gallery of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1998 Berlin, Haus am Waldsee, The Roman Trace
  • 1998 Hamburg, Stern , the world in view
  • 1999 Berlin, German Historical Museum , Bonn, Art Museum and Gallery of the City of Stuttgart, Power of Age
  • 2001 Berlin, Galerie Brusberg / Der Spiegel , The Sixties
  • 2001 Paris, Paris Photo, Galerie Priska Pasquer, Timescape
  • 2002 Berlin, Willy Brandt House, Willy Brandt
  • 2002 Paris, Paris Photo, Galerie Priska Pasquer, Massimo Passacaglia
  • 2003 Prague, Capital Gallery and Berlin, German Historical Museum , Of Bodies and Other Things
  • 2003 Paris, Paris Photo, Galerie Priska Pasquer, Eye On Eternity
  • 2004 Moscow and Bochum, Of bodies and other things

bibliography

Books and publications by Michael Ruetz (selection)

  • MR catalog of the Galerie Mikro. , Berlin 1970
  • Christo packs Monschau . DuMont, Cologne 1971
  • Pictures from Germany . Catalog of the Spectrum Gallery, Hanover 1976
  • In Goethe's footsteps. Artemis Verlag, Zurich 1978 and 1981
  • Necropolis. Carl Hanser Verlag , Munich 1978. Book club edition: Ex Libris, Zurich
  • With Goethe in Switzerland. Artemis Verlag, Zurich 1979
  • In the other Germany . Artemis Verlag, Zurich and Munich 1979
  • "You just have to look this guy in the face" - APO Berlin 1966-1969. Zweiausendeins Verlag , Frankfurt 1980
  • Necropolis. Randlage, Verlag amBEATion, Berlin undated, approx. 1983
  • Eye on America. Little, Brown and Company / New York Graphic Society, Boston, 1984
  • Scottish Symphony. In Commemoration of James Boswell ’s and Dr. Samuel Johnson ’s Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland. Little, Brown and Company / New York Graphic Society, Boston 1985.
  • I too in Arcadia / Goethe's Italian journey. Carl Hanser Verlag , Munich 1985.
  • Moon / luna. Franz Greno Verlag, Nördlingen 1986
  • Beuys . Franz Greno Verlag, Nördlingen 1986
  • Eye on Australia. Little, Brown and Company / New York Graphic Society, Boston 1987
  • Roman vedute. List Verlag, Munich 1987
  • Fontane's walks through the Mark Brandenburg . Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1987
  • Italy: Seasons of Light. Little, Brown and Company / New York Graphic Society, Boston 1988.
  • About Berlin . Munich 1991
  • Arno Schmidt . Bargfeld , Zweausendeins Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1993
  • The Willy Brandt House . Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 1996
  • Visible time. Zweausendeins Verlag , Frankfurt 1995. Book trade edition : Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 1997
  • Cosmos. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, 1997
  • Library for the Eye / A Library for the Eye. Photographs 1958-1997. (Library of Eyes IV). Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 1997
  • 1968 / An era is visited. Zweiausendeins Verlag , Frankfurt 1997. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, 1998
  • WindEye. (Library of Eyes V). With a text by Klaus Honnef. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, 2001
  • Eye on time. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, 2007
  • Pogrom 1938. The face in the crowd. Nimbus, Wädenswil on Lake Zurich, 2018.

Catalogs and anthologies with texts and articles by Michael Ruetz

  • The German photograph. Stuttgart 1969
  • Dumont Photo I. With a text on the dramaturgy of light. Cologne around 1980
  • German photography after 1945. Fotoforum Kassel. PPS Gallery, Hamburg 1979
  • Heinz Hajek-Halke's estate . in: Catalog of the Rudolf Kicken gallery. ART 25, Basel 1994
  • German photography 1870-1970. Power of a medium. Catalog for the exhibition by Klaus Honnef in the Kunsthalle der Federal Republic of Germany, Cologne 1997
  • Signatures of the visible. A century of photography in Germany. Catalog by Klaus Honnef, Kunsthalle, Erfurt 1998
  • Bulletin of the German Photographic Academy 14. Leinfelden 1998
  • Klaus Honnef: Art of the 20th Century. Taschen Verlag, Cologne 1998
  • Power of old age. Exhibition Deutsches Historisches Museum , Berlin, 1998. Kunstmuseum Bonn 1999
  • Heinz Hajek-Halke , the great stranger. in: Catalog of the exhibition in the Haus am Waldsee, Berlin. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 1997
  • The Roman trace. Artistic research on the topicality of antiquity. Text in the catalog of the exhibition of the same name. Haus am Waldsee, Berlin 1998. With seven illustrations
  • Diagonal view. in: Photography in Germany III. Munich 1999
  • Fifty years of the Federal Republic. Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg 1999
  • The stone guest. in: Photography in Germany IV. Munich 1999
  • Who is Hajek , who is Halke ? in: Christine Fischer-Defoy: "Art, under construction a stone": The West Berlin art and music colleges in the field of tension in the post-war period. Publisher: University of the Arts , Berlin 2001
  • Amalia's World. Weird bird, weird look. in: Photography in Germany. Schneider-Henn, Munich 2002
  • Célèbre et méconnu: Heinz Hajek-Halke - Famous and hardly known: Heinz Hajek-Halke. Catalog of the retrospective at the Center Pompidou , Paris 2001. Together with Alain Sayag
  • Hajek-Halke . Artist, anarchist. Epilogue to the monograph of Heinz Hajek-Halke's life's work, part I. Edited by Michael Ruetz. With texts by Alain Sayag, Klaus Honnef and Rainer Stamm. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2005

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the Archipelago of Dawn: The absolute landscapes of the photographer Michael Ruetz in FAZ from July 5, 2014, page 14.

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personal data
SURNAME Ruetz, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin