Timm Rautert

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Timm Rautert in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn on the occasion of the retrospective of his works (2009)

Timm Rautert (born September 13, 1941 in Tuchel , Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia ) is a German photographer and former university professor.

Life

Timm Rautert grew up after fleeing from the West Prussian Tuchel in the Hessian Fulda. After an apprenticeship as a shop window, font and poster designer, he studied photography with Otto Steinert at the Folkwang School of Design in Essen from 1966 to 1971 . During his studies he visited Czechoslovakia, Japan and the USA. In 1970 he was appointed to the Society of German Photographers and in 1973 to the German Society for Photography . In the 1970s and 1980s Rautert worked in particular as a photojournalist , especially for ZEITmagazin , between 1974 and 1983 in close collaboration with the journalist Michael Holzach . In addition, Rautert has also worked for magazines such as Geo and Merian . In parallel to his journalistic activities, Rautert pursued a large number of freelance projects. Rautert lives and works in Essen .

University professor

From 1993 to 2007 he taught as a professor for photography at the University of Graphic Arts and Book Art in Leipzig . His students at the Leipzig Art Academy include Claudia Angelmaier , Laura Bielau, Viktoria Binschtok, Kristleifur Björnsson, Marek Brandt , Johanna Diehl , Wiebke Elzel, Aymeric Fouquez, Bernhard Fuchs , Ulrich Gebert, Göran Gnaudschun, Falk Haberkorn, Grit Hachmeister , Frank Höhle, Margret Hoppe, Sven Johne , Edgar Leciejewski , Alexej Meschtschanow , Jana Müller, Ricarda Roggan , Florian Rossmanith , Nadin Maria Rüfenacht , Adrian Sauer , Oskar Schmidt , Björn Siebert, Sebastian Stumpf , Anett Stuth , Carsten Tabel, Rebecca Wilton and Tobias Zielony .

Artistic work

The project "Image analytical photography" (1968–1974) started by Timm Rautert during his studies at the Folkwang School achieved particular fame. The total of 56 individual works in this cycle examine the fundamentals of photography in the sense of a grammar. A scientific symposium held in September 2016 at the Kupferstich-Kabinett of the State Art Collections in Dresden was devoted exclusively to this group of works. The “Artworks” series, created in 2000, ties in with the early preoccupation with image and photo-theoretical issues.

Rautert devoted himself to portraits of the artist already during his studies. During a trip to Prague in 1967 he made portraits of the Czech photographer Josef Sudek ; On the occasion of a stay in New York, a series of famous portraits by Andy Warhol was created in 1970 . Since then, Rautert has built on this with a large number of other artist portraits, including by Franz Erhard Walther , James Turrell , Robert Ryman , Ed Ruscha , Walter de Maria , Gilbert and George , Blinky Palermo , Joseph Beuys , André Kertész , Josef Koudelka , Gerhard Richter and Neo Rauch . There are also photographic documentations by the Berliner Philharmoniker (1986) and by Otl Aicher and his studio in Rotis (1986–1988).

A focus of his journalistic as well as his free photographic work is on social issues. Photography becomes an instrument of social analysis. Among other things, Rautert devoted himself to the progressive transformation of the world of work (including "Housing of the Invisible. Images of the Third Industrial Revolution", 1986), the meaning of symbols and clothing codes ("People in Uniforms", 1974), order and the Change in social institutions such as the university (“New University”, 1983–1984) and the hospital (“Im Krankenhaus”, 1993) as well as marginalized groups (“Contergan”, 1969; “On the way in German homeless asylums”; 1975). One of the sum of his preoccupations with documentary photography is the project “Our own life - excursions into the unknown society in which we live” (1992) , which he developed together with Ulrich Beck , Wilhelm Vossenkuhl , Ulf Erdmann Ziegler and Otl Aicher.

Public collections (selection)

Exhibitions (selection)

Awards

Publications

Photo books, editions, exhibition catalogs

Literature on Timm Rautert's work

  • Florian Ebner: The self-invention of the photographer or the discursive life of Timm Rautert. In: Timm Rautert: If we don't see you, you won't see us either - photographs 1966–2006. ed. by Hans-Werner Schmidt. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2007, pp. 9-30, ISBN 978-3-86521-418-8 .
  • Carolin Förster: The portrait as a "closed force field" for Timm Rautert. In: Timm Rautert: If we don't see you, you won't see us either - photographs 1966–2006. ed. by Hans-Werner Schmidt. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2007, pp. 258-266, ISBN 978-3-86521-418-8 .
  • Bertram Kaschek: See Venice and Die . Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2015.
  • Steffen Siegel : The view of the window. On the image-analytical gesture of Ugo Mulas and Timm Rautert. In: ders .: Exposures. To the photographic present . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2014, pp. 91-107, ISBN 978-3-7705-5708-0 .
  • Steffen Siegel: Close contact. On the photographic sociology in Timm Rautert's picture series "Germans in Uniform". In: ders .: Exposures. To the photographic present . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2014, pp. 109–132, ISBN 978-3-7705-5708-0 .
  • Brigitte Werneburg: Relevant elegance. Timm Rautert's photo journalistic work. In: Timm Rautert: If we don't see you, you won't see us either - photographs 1966–2006. ed. by Hans-Werner Schmidt. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2007, pp. 273-277, ISBN 978-3-86521-418-8 .
  • Herta Wolf: Declinations about the reality of photography - Timm Rautert's theoretical work from 1968 to 1974. In: Timm Rautert: Bildanalytische Photographie 1968–1974 . Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2000, pp. 72–85, ISBN 3-88375-419-6 .

conversations

  • Wolfgang Brückle: Timm Rautert. A conversation about "Germans in Uniform" and other fields of work. In: Camera Austria . No. 98, 2007, pp. 24-37.
  • Michael Langer: nuances. Music and questions about the person from November 15, 2015: The photographer Timm Rautert . Available on the Deutschlandfunk website.
  • Franziska Leuthäußer: Conversation with Timm Rautert on November 25, 2016. Available on the website of the Städel Museum Frankfurt am Main.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. website of the gallery Parrotta Contemporary Art Stuttgart
  2. Before everyone's eyes. Photography from Leipzig Kerber Verlag
  3. Close the gap. Studied at Timm Rautert Kerber Verlag
  4. ↑ In a class of its own - action space photography ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2016 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. An exhibition by the Kupferstich-Kabinett in the Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.skd.museum
  5. Symposium "Bildanalytische Photographie 1968–1974" ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.skd.museum
  6. https://www.waz.de/staedte/essen/sudek-dokumentation-bei-proust-id1193130.html WAZ Online accessed on May 8, 2019
  7. And then Warhol said: "Hi Timm" conversation with Timm Rautert in inter / View
  8. https://derstandard.at/3413340/Timm-Rautert-erhaelt-Lovis-Corinth-Preis Der Standard accessed on May 8, 2019
  9. ^ Website of the Deutschlandfunk broadcasting between November 15, 2015.
  10. ^ Website of the Städel Museum Frankfurt am Main Café Germany. In conversation with the first art scene in Germany.