Vadim Yevgenyevich Gippenreiter

Wadim Gippenreiter
Full name	Vadim Evgenjewitsch Gippenreiter Вадим Евгеньевич Гиппенрейтер
nation	Soviet Union
birthday	April 9th July / April 22, 1917 greg.
place of birth	Moscow,  Russian Republic
date of death	July 16, 2016
Career
discipline	Departure

Vadim Jewgenjewitsch Gippenreiter ( Russian Вадим Евгеньевич Гиппенрейтер ; born April 9, ^jul. / 22 April  1917 ^greg. In Moscow , former Russian Republic ; † 16th July 2016 ) was a Russian nature and landscape photographer , who as a young man, a national ski championships won and worked as a sports reporter.

Life

Gippenreiter was the son of a noble officer and member of the White Army who was killed in 1917. He had access to photography as a child, as his relatives enabled him to use plate cameras . At the age of ten he made his first recordings and also took care of the development of the glass plates and contact prints .

Gippenreiter was denied a degree in biology due to his origins in a noble family. However, his success in skiing, which culminated in 1937 with a victory as the first USSR champion in alpine downhill skiing , enabled him to study medicine. After moving to the Moscow Institute of the Arts , he was able to graduate as a photographer there in 1948. Gippenreiter made a name for himself as a sports reporter and journalist in the following years. He later became an official photographer at the Soviet Academy of Sciences and was able to participate in at least 37 expeditions within the USSR in this capacity. Thanks to his excellent athletic training and skills - among other things, he was the first mountaineer to climb Elbrus in order to manage the descent from the summit on skis - he managed to get his camera to places inaccessible to other photographers, and so on create unique photographs.

Vadim Gippenreiter is considered a co-founder of Russian nature photography and the Russian school of artistic landscape photography. He is the author of 35 books and hundreds of publications, including in renowned magazines such as Geo , Stern and National Geographic . His photographs have been shown at numerous exhibitions in Russia, England, the Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary and France. According to their own statements, the complete works comprise over 50,000 photographs. Gippenreiter was an honorary member of the Russian Federation for Alpine and Snowboard Sports.

He was honored with the Order of Honor in 2012 by the President of Russia Dmitri Anatolyevich Medvedev .

Works (selection)

• Vadim Gippenreiter, Nikolaj N. Rachmanov: Journey through the USSR Moscow, Verlag Planeta 1979
• Vadim Gippenreiter: Central Asia: Architectural Monuments 9. – 19. C. Moscow, Publishing Planeta 1987
• Vadim Gippenreiter: Kamchatka. Land of fire and ice. 1993 Hildesheim, Gerstenberg-Verlag ISBN 3-8067-2072-X
• Vadim Gippenreiter, Alexej Kometsch . Old Russian churches and cities. Frankfurt am Main, Umschau , 1994.
• Alexej Kometsch, Vadim Gippenrejter: Russian monasteries in Munich, Hirmer Verlag 2001, ISBN 3-7774-9000-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Vadim E. Gippenrejter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website of Wadim Gippenreiter (Russian)
• Photos by Wadim Gippenreiter on EnglishRussia.com
• Wadim Gippenreiter as an alpine skier ( memento from February 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (with pictures, around 1940)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ушел в последнюю экспедицию (Russian)
2. ↑ Vadim Gippenreiter on gippenreiter.com , accessed on July 19, 2016 (English)
3. ↑ Vadim E. Gippenreiter on forum.artinvestment.ru , accessed on July 19, 2016 (English)
4. ↑ ^{a b} Russia of Gippenreiter. English Russia - englishrussia.com, accessed May 6, 2010 (English). 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Вадим Гиппенрейтер - ОФИЦИАЛЬНЫЙ САЙТ - ПОРТФОЛИО, ФОТОБАНКНАВТОРН. www.gippenreiter.com, accessed on May 6, 2010 (Russian). 
6. ↑ GEO 12/1995 page 114; ISSN  0342-8311
7. ↑ ВАДИМ ГИППЕНРЕЙТЕР «ЗАПОВЕДНАЯ РОССИЯ». (No longer available online.) Компания “Global First,” December 22, 2009, archived from the original on December 10, 2010 ; Retrieved September 8, 2010 (Russian). 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.  
8. ↑ Vadim Gippenreiter. the International Environment Photographers Association (IEPA) - www.theiepa.org, accessed May 6, 2010 . 
9. ↑ Вадим Гиппенрейтер - ОФИЦИАЛЬНЫЙ САЙТ - ПОРТФОЛИО, ФОТОБАНК. www.gippenreiter.com, accessed on May 6, 2010 (Russian / English). 
10. ↑ ИТОГИ ВНЕОЧЕРЕДНОЙ КОНФЕРЕНЦИИ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ ГОРНОЛЫЖНОГО СПОРТА И СНОУБОРДА РОССИИ. (No longer available online.) "Федерация горнолыжного спорта и сноуборда России" olympic.ru, October 30, 2006, formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 8, 2010 (Russian).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.