Oliver Rath

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Oliver Rath (2016)

Oliver Rath (born April 14, 1978 in Heidelberg ; † August 18, 2016 in Berlin ) was a German photographer . He has been running a photo blog since 2009 and showed pictures from his life as well as portrait , fashion and nude photography .

Life

Oliver Rath grew up in Freiburg im Breisgau . His first attempts as a music producer began at the age of 20. As a DJ he was active under the name Al Kapone, he put u. a. regularly in the Fun Park and Kagan. He also made a music video. Due to dissatisfaction with his DJ work and the resulting problems, he reoriented himself professionally. As a photographer he was self-taught . As the winner of the Red Bull Music Academy 2001 in New York, he discovered his interest in photography. Since 2010 he has lived and worked mainly in Berlin, where he opened a gallery for photography and modern art in 2012. His gallery at Rosenthaler Straße 66 is run by his wife and gallery owner Tina Tröbs. The gallery is attached to the Hotel Amano, where photographs by Oliver Rath are also on display.

Rath died on the night of August 19, 2016 at the age of 38. He left behind his wife and two children.

Photographic works

Rath's pictures range from snapshots to conceptual works . Dynamism, provocation, visual wit and spectacular productions shape his images. His often provocative pictures show celebrities, the Berlin scene and models in excessive, worldly and at the same time cheerful and euphoric motifs. He himself described his art with the words "don't be afraid of anything .. no idea of ​​anything".

It is not uncommon for his models to be photographed naked. “Everything that is forbidden and wicked appeals to me. The pure personality shows itself without masks and veils, ”said Oliver Rath about his nude photography in an interview with art - Das Kunstmagazin .

According to ARD, the “scene artist” and “new pop artist” Oliver Rath was “someone who photographs everything and everyone”. In addition to unknown Berliners, the artist also had many celebrities in front of his lens, for example national soccer coach Jogi Löw , the presenters Palina Rojinski and Joko Winterscheidt or scooter front man HP Baxxter , erotic model Micaela Schäfer , stars like Boris Becker , Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht and Jürgen Vogel , but also fashion czar Karl Lagerfeld .

Campaigns

In addition to freelance work, Rath photographed campaigns for major brands and charity campaigns , for example for Bench and Adidas , the RTL donation marathon 2011/12, the Junge Helden organ donation campaign, in 2012 he was the SWR New Pop Artist, after Gunther Sachs the second photographer who was allowed to design the festival poster. In the same year he also received the 1st prize of the art project “Aufmacherkunst” of the Mittelbadische Presse for his motif “Memo”. In autumn 2014 he photographed the berlympic campaign “We want to play”, an appeal to all Berliners to vote for the 2024 Olympic Games in Berlin.

Blog

New pictures were published daily on his blog, which both show different facets of our everyday life and also present erotic situations and scenes in an artificial way . "The photographs look like stills from film scenes, with carefully planned choreographies, props and actors." With two to four new photos per day on the blog, he quickly became "Germany's most popular photo blogger". He was followed by 31,600 fans on Facebook (as of November 2014). According to fudder.de, his blog was viewed 20,000 times a day in 2011.

painting

He painted celebrities that Rath did not get in front of the camera. His paintings, for example by Uschi Obermaier and Marlene Dietrich , were shown for the first time at his exhibition in the Humboldt-Box.

Solo exhibitions

  • 2009: Solo Show - Konzerthaus Freiburg
  • 2010: Artburg - Konzerthaus Freiburg
  • 2011: Solo Show, Vicious Gallery, Hamburg
  • 2011: AutomART, Altonaer Kaispeicher , Hamburg
  • 2011: AutomART, G5, Munich
  • 2011: The crowd makes the poison, Ballhaus Ost , Berlin
  • 2011: Berlin Germany, Solo Show, Galerie Springmann, Freiburg
  • 2011: Your friends are to blame, Solo Show, Nhow, Berlin
  • 2011: Exhibition X Altruism, Galerie Kollaborativ, Berlin
  • 2011: Eyes Don't Lie, Funk Royal Eyware, Berlin
  • 2011: Laub - an art show about the fall, KTV, Berlin
  • 2011: Gif. Me. Berlin, HBC, Berlin
  • 2011: Show Kaze, 301 S.Western AVE, Los Angeles (USA)
Oliver Rath Book Release "Berlin Bohème" Show Humboldt Box Berlin
  • 2011: Windows Phone 7.5 Hotel. Ghostbusters, Alte Münze, Berlin
  • 2011: Art 'UP, The Ground Breakers, Paris (France)
  • 2012: Meat products, Kunsthalle Heidelberg
  • 2012: Eyes Don't Lie, Funk Royal Eyeware, Munich
  • 2012: SWR3 New Pop Artist, Crystal Hall LA8, Baden-Baden
  • 2012: Let's be children, Amano Hotel, Berlin
  • 2014: Oliver Rath - Berlin Bohème. Humboldt Box , Berlin

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berlin: Photographer Oliver Rath died at 38 In: Spiegel Online , August 20, 2016
  2. ↑ a b c d Oliver Rath: Germany's most popular photoblogger ( memento from December 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). fudder.de , November 9, 2011. Accessed August 21, 2016.
  3. ↑ Video: Al Kaporns Jugendsünden , fudder.de, March 3, 2010
  4. ↑ Alumni , redbullmusicacademy.com
  5. ↑ [1] . Subculture , October 2001
  6. ↑ Oliver Rath opens gallery. In: Berliner Zeitung online , accessed on November 11, 2014.
  7. ↑ Died at the age of 38. Star photographer Oliver Rath is dead. FAZ.net . August 20, 2016. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
  8. ↑ Oliver Rath. Berlin star photographer dies at 38. Stern.de . August 20, 2016. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
  9. ↑ Oliver Rath and the Berlin Bohème . Exceptionally Berlin. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
  10. ↑ Akt Now: Oliver Rath ( Memento from November 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). art - the art magazine online. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
  11. ↑ Spontaneous shooting with scene photographer Oliver Rath ( Memento from November 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). ARD media library. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
  12. ↑ Kamerath . Rath photograph. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
  13. ↑ press page . Rath photograph. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
  14. ↑ "RTL - We Help Children": Charity vernissage in Berlin ( Memento from November 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). RTL.de. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
  15. ^ Organ donation: Decision can save lives ( Memento from November 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Junge-Helden.org. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
  16. ↑ "We want to play": berlympic campaign ( Memento from November 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Wir-wollen-spiele.berlin. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
  17. ↑ Design magazine . Page 2011.
  18. ↑ In velvet and suspenders through the night. In: FOCUS No. 40 2013, p. 22ff.
  19. ↑ Oliver Rath Photography . Facebook site. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
  20. ↑ Oliver Rath shows Berlin bohemianism . Berliner Morgenpost online. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
  21. ↑ Act Now: Oliver Rath. ( Memento from November 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Art. Das Kunstmagazin . September 26, 2014.
  22. ↑ A look at the exhibition "Berlin Bohème" , Welt online, October 3, 2014, accessed on November 5, 2014.
  23. ↑ Review in the Berliner Morgenpost , accessed on November 5, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Rath, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH 18th August 2016
Place of death Berlin