Reinhart Wolf
Reinhart Wolf (born August 1, 1930 in Berlin ; † November 10, 1988 in Hamburg ) was a German photographer who worked primarily in advertising and food photography .
Life
Reinhart Wolf, born in Berlin in 1930, was less known as a photographer with his "bread-and-butter" job: he photographed "everything from coffee beans to airplanes" for advertising and did pioneering work from the late 1950s to the 1970s, often together with Charles Wilp , but specifically stepped back behind the products. It was only in his free work, to which he could devote more than his Hamburg studio was doing well, which he preferably carried out with a large format camera (8 × 10 inch), that he became known towards the end of the 1970s, for the first time at photokina 1976 .
In the architectural photography of the 1980s, he became a stylistic pioneer in the architectural photography of the 1980s, with accurate and ideally lit portraits of buildings. The best known were the - often artistically designed and mostly unnoticed - peaks of New York skyscrapers and the purist, without disturbing "accessories" recorded Spanish castles in the magical light of the south; There are multiple award-winning and frequently reprinted illustrated books of both series.
Reinhart Wolf also created impressive still lifes of elaborately lit bouquets of flowers and works of colorfully composed, artfully draped Japanese dishes, which identifies him as one of the trend-setting pioneers of product photography in the 1960s and 1970s.
He was a founding member of the Art Directors Club in Germany, the youngest appointed member of the German Society for Photography (DGPh) and a member of the Association of Freelance Photo Designers (BFF). Wolf received the culture award from the German Society for Photography and several gold medals from the Art Director's Club .
The Reinhart Wolf Prize , named after him, has been awarded annually by the Reinhart Wolf Foundation since 1991 and is endowed with a prize sum of 2,500 euros.
Works
Illustrated books:
- Ray Belcher: Faces and Facades. A Collection of Large-format Instant Images. Cambridge, Mass. 1977 (The part of the architectural photography “facades” comes from Reinhart Wolf).
- Faces of buildings. Bremen 1980, ISBN 3-921749-18-2 .
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New York. Hamburg 1980, ISBN 3-8228-0011-2 .
- New edition: Taschen, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-8365-2522-0 .
- De España. Madrid 1982, ISBN 84-86022-02-9 .
- Castillos. Munich 1983, ISBN 3-8296-0026-7 .
- China's food. A Photographic Journey by Reinhart Wolf. New York 1985, ISBN 0-914919-02-4 .
- China and its Kitchen - A Photographic Journey by Reinhart Wolf. Munich 1986, ISBN 3-453-36012-5 .
- Japan - culture of food. Munich 1987, ISBN 3-453-20655-X .
- The villas of Veneto. Munich 1987, ISBN 3-453-00556-2 .
- Culinary gallery. Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-455-08316-1 .
Illustrations:
- Wolf Uecker : The new old kitchen. Hamburg 1983, ISBN 3-570-03873-4 .
- Heinz Winkler: three-star cuisine for the home. Munich 1984, ISBN 3-453-02718-3 .
- Jutta Buer: Boiled gifts. Munich 1985, ISBN 3-517-00870-2 .
- Agnes Amberg: Agnes Amberg's cookbook 130 recipes from 84 chefs. Munich 1986, ISBN 3-517-00896-6 .
- Heinz Winkler: The big kitchen and its little secrets. Munich 1986, ISBN 3-453-36020-6 .
- André Heller: Sky Signs - Flying Sculptures. Munich 1986, ISBN 3-453-37107-0 .
literature
- Hans-Eberhard Hess, Freddy Langer: Reinhart Wolf. Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-89234-285-7 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Reinhart Wolf in the catalog of the German National Library
- Reinhart Wolf's website
- Information on Reinhart Wolf in the Deutsche Fotothek
- Pictures by Reinhart Wolf in the Deutsche Fotothek
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolf, Reinhart |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 1, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 1988 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |