Wilfried Taubner

Wilfried Täubner at work (Small Africa on Sylt) - Excerpt from KUBUS 306-310

Wilfried Täubner (born December 9, 1940 in Glauchau ; † April 1, 1994 in Kürten near Cologne) was a German architecture photographer, photo journalist, photo artist and gallery owner.

Life

Wilfried Täubner grew up in Glauchau (Saxony), where he also completed his journeyman's examination in photography. In 1960, shortly before the Wall was built, he fled Freiberg first to West Berlin and then to Aachen. From 1960 to 1965 he studied at the State Higher Technical School for Photography in Cologne (integrated into the Technical University since 1971 ). After completing his diploma and master's examination, worked as a freelance photographer in the Rhineland.

"Impression" (1968)

KUBUS 93 (1975)

From the series "One Photographer, One Model, One Year" (1971)

KUBUS 774 (1987)

From 1967 to 1978 he received a teaching position at the technical college for design in Cologne. From 1975 to 1977 he studied philosophy and art history at the University of Cologne in addition to his teaching and professional activities. In 1976 he moved to the Bergisches Land and relocated his studio from Ebertplatz in Cologne to Kürten.

In 1978 he founded the T. Gallery in an old village school. In addition to his own artistic work “Photographic Pictures with the Cube”, on which he worked from 1971 until shortly before his death in 1994, he also presented works by fellow photographers such as Hermann Claasen, Barbara Klemm, Kurt Julius and Henning Christoph.

In 1981 the Art Commission of the German Bundestag decided to purchase the picture "Kubus 172".He carried out numerous architecture contracts for the Federal Building Directorate, including a. Building documentation from the House of History and the Bonn Art Museum. In addition, he worked for well-known architects such as Schürmann, Böhm, Schneider-Wesseling, von Gerkan, Marg & Partner, Stieldorf planning group , as well as for the paper industry and was entrusted with the overall conception of annual reports.

In the area of model simulation, he was able to use an endoscope to simulate impressions from the pedestrian perspective, which was of great importance for sustainable urban development.

Täubner was involved in the creation of concepts for numerous architecture publications. He was appointed member of the German Society for Photography (DGPh, since 1970), the Association of Freelance Photo Designers (BFF, 1973–90), the Society of German Photographers (GDL, later the German Photographic Academy, since 1981).

Taubner died on April 1st, 1994 in Kürten. The Gesellschaft Deutscher Lichtbildner reported posthumously on Täubner's last series of works “The Latent Square” in its Bulletin 12/1996 on pages 24–25.

House of History, photographed by Wilfried Täubner in 1993

Quotes

“Since 1971, Wilfried Täubner has been working continuously with the cube, the most elementary form of three-dimensional space. [...] The sudden encounter of abstract space-figure and natural space creates a friction that ultimately accounts for the inexplicable fascination of Täuber's photographic work. […] Täubner is concerned with making the temporal dimension of space as well as the spatial dimension of time clear. With these questions to the cube in the all-encompassing space, age-old metaphysical problems of philosophy are ultimately addressed. "

- Wolfgang Vomm : Wilfried Täubner: Photographic images with the cube

“The gallery owner Täubner is interested in the work of his colleagues who, like him, use the camera to document conditions, developments, history and experiments. In 1981 he sent Günter Hildenhagen's pictures of the disabled through 13 cities. He helped the long-forgotten Cologne photographer Hermann Claasen to rediscover them. In 1985 he put Barbara Klemm's photographs for the newspaper in an artistic light. "

- Ingeborg flag : Wilfried Täubner

Solo exhibitions (selection)

1968 Bakke's Night of Fame - rear projection of the stage set for the German premiere John McGrath: End of the performance midnight, Theater der Stadt Bonn
1971 One photographer, one model, one year , Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA), Bonn
1978 Die Taktiker - comparison of 17 Bundesliga coaches with the 18th, Hennes Weisweiler, the coach of Borussia Mönchengladbach , Galerie T, Kürten
1979 Photographic pictures with the cube , Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsches Schleswig, Rantum / Sylt
1980 Photographic pictures with the cube (report with interview in the program “Mosaik” on WDR 3), Galerie T, Kürten
1981 Wilfried Täubner - Photographic images with the cube (report in the ZDF program "aspekte"), Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach
1983 Photographic images with the cube , Bund Deutscher Architekten, Bonn
1986 Photographic pictures with the cube , Galerie T, Kürten
1987 Photo performance: One year after Chernobyl , Gesellschaft Deutscher Lichtbildner (German Photographic Academy), Stuttgart-Leinfelden
1992 Wilfried Täubner - Photographic pictures with the cube , double exhibition: Augustinermuseum (Marienbad exhibition hall) in cooperation with the project E-Werk-Hallen für Kunst, Freiburg i. Br.
1994 Wilfried Täubner - Photographic images with the cube , Gelsenkirchen City Museum

Group exhibitions (selection)

1968 “photokina”, Cologne
1973 Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
1976 Two actions for the Adenauer year, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
1978 Nikon Gallery, Zurich
1980–84 Photo design - claim and proof, BFF, Nuremberg, Singapore, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Stuttgart
1984 Image Spaces - Eight Photographers See Landscape, Society of German Photographers, Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen
1987 From landscape painting to securing evidence, Kunstverein, Göttingen
1987 Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Awards

Kodak Photo Book Prize 1993
Acquisition of the painting "Kubus 172" by the Art Commission of the German Bundestag in 1987

Works

Monographs / picture books

Stieldorf planning group - buildings and projects, Königswinter 1974, 1978.
Architecture 1966–78 by Gerkan, Marg and Partner, Stuttgart 1978.
Architecture in Democracy - Art Collection NRW, Bonn-Düsseldorf 1986.
Ingeborg Flagge and Wilfried Täubner: Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn - Stuttgart - Ostfildern, 1992.
Wilfried Täubner (with texts by Klaus Flemming and Friedrich Riehl): Photographic images with the cube, Kürten / Cologne-Bergamo, 1993.
House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany, (Ed.) Federal Ministry for Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1993 (photos by Wilfried Täubner and the House of History Foundation)

Exhibition catalogs

Wilfried Täubner: Photographic pictures with the cube, excerpt from the exhibition Galerie T, Schule Forsten, Kürten / Cologne, October 1978 a. ADS leisure center, Rantum / Sylt, September 1979.
Photo design - claim and proof, Nuremberg 1980.
Wilfried Täubner: Photographic images with the cube, Bergisch Gladbach 1981.

Important texts or articles

Reinhold Mißelbeck : Photographic images with the cube - Wilfried Täubner, in: Internationale Photoszene, Cologne 1986.
Bundestag acquired photo work by Wilfried Täubner, in: Kunst Köln 4/87, p. 98.
Reinhold Mißelbeck: Wilfried Täubner, in: foto-scene - magazine for photography, videography and visual communication, 11th year, no. 3, June 1988, pp. 54–57.
Hans Scheurer, architectural photography with an endoscope - Wilfried Täubner photographs architectural models from a pedestrian perspective, in: Wilfried Täubner, Kürten 1988, pp. 4–7.
Christian Bartenbach, Daylight in the Museum - a new lighting concept, in: Yearbook for Light and Architecture 1995, ed. by Ingeborg Flagge, pp. 173–188 (photo contributions by Wilfried Täubner)
Charles Compère, obituary for the 53-year-old Wilfried Täubner, who passed away on April 1, 1994, in: Bulletin - German Photographic Academy, 11/1995, p. 51.
Wilfried Täubner: From the notebook - last work, in: Bulletin - German Photographic Academy, 12/1996, pp. 24-25.
Cao Kai: Chonggou shijue kongjian de "mofang" - Guanyu Wei'erfuleide Taobona de shixiang yishu shiyan (Reconstruction of the visual space through the "Rubik's Cube" - About the experimental art photography by Wilfried Täubner), in: Shijie Meishu (World Art), 3 / 1999, pp. 26-27.

literature

Wolf Strache, Otto Steinert (Ed.): The German light picture . 1974 Annual Review.
Wilfried Täubner: Stieldorf planning group. Buildings and projects , Cologne 1978
Wilfried Täubner: Photographic pictures with the cube , exhibition cat. City Gallery Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach 1981
Card index of the Cologne District Craftsmen's Association, research from 13.-14. June 1983
DGPh Internal 18.1994.2
Contemporary photography from the Gernsheim Collection, ed. by Manfred Boetzkes, Römer-Museum, Hildesheim, pp. 94–95 (Kubus 172, 1979 and Kubus 724, 1985)
Chongxian de mofang - Wei'erfuleide Taobona (The Demummification of the Rubik's Cube - Wilfried Täubner), ed. by Jinying Dangdai Yishu Kongjian (Nanjing Golden Eagle Contemporary Art Center, GART), Nanjing (PR China), June 2015

source

Prof. Dr. Rolf Sachsse, HBK Saar

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Hermann Claasen (1889–1987): Cologne photographer who documented the destruction of Cologne in World War II.
↑ Barbara Klemm (born 1939) photo journalist who worked for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) and who was retired from the Federal President. D. Christian Wulff has been awarded the Order Pour Le Mérite.
↑ Bundestag acquired photographic work by Wilfried Täubner , in: Kunst Köln 4/87, p. 98.
^ Hans Scheurer: Architecture photography with the endoscope. Wilfried Täubner photographs architectural models from a pedestrian perspective, in: Nikon News, 2/1985, pp. 42–45.
↑ Wilfried Täubner: Photographic images with the cube, Bergisch Gladbach 1981 (preface).
↑ Ingeborg Flagge : An attempt at an approach, in: Wilfried Täubner, Kürten 1988, pp. 1–3 (foreword). Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Flagge (born 1942) is a German architecture critic and publicist. From 1978 to 1983 she was the federal manager of the BDA, from 2000 to 2005 director of the German Architecture Museum (DAM).
↑ The 1993 certificate reads : “Based on the decision of the Independent Expert Jury, the Kodak Aktiengesellschaft Stuttgart awards the Kodak Photo Book Prize 1993 to Wilfried Täubner, Photographic Images with the Cube, Photography and Design Wilfried Täubner, Text by Klaus Flemming and Friedrich Riehl, Wilfried Täubner self-published, Kürten 1993, distribution by Lindemanns Verlag Stuttgart. This award recognizes the exemplary photographic quality of the award-winning work. Signed by the chairman of the Association of Publishers and Bookshops in Baden-Württemberg e. V. and Karl Steinorth, the chairman of the expert jury, Stuttgart, in November 1993. "
↑ Bundestag acquired photographic work by Wilfried Täubner , in: Kunst Köln 4/87, p. 98.

personal data
SURNAME	Taubner, Wilfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architecture photographer, photo journalist, photo artist and gallery owner
DATE OF BIRTH	December 9, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH	Glauchau
DATE OF DEATH	April 1, 1994
Place of death	Kürten

[1] Hermann Claasen (1889–1987): Cologne photographer who documented the destruction of Cologne in World War II.

[2] Barbara Klemm (born 1939) photo journalist who worked for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) and who was retired from the Federal President. D. Christian Wulff has been awarded the Order Pour Le Mérite.

[3] Bundestag acquired photographic work by Wilfried Täubner , in: Kunst Köln 4/87, p. 98.

[4] Hans Scheurer: Architecture photography with the endoscope. Wilfried Täubner photographs architectural models from a pedestrian perspective, in: Nikon News, 2/1985, pp. 42–45.

[5] Wilfried Täubner: Photographic images with the cube, Bergisch Gladbach 1981 (preface).

[6] Ingeborg Flagge : An attempt at an approach, in: Wilfried Täubner, Kürten 1988, pp. 1–3 (foreword). Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Flagge (born 1942) is a German architecture critic and publicist. From 1978 to 1983 she was the federal manager of the BDA, from 2000 to 2005 director of the German Architecture Museum (DAM).

[7] The 1993 certificate reads : “Based on the decision of the Independent Expert Jury, the Kodak Aktiengesellschaft Stuttgart awards the Kodak Photo Book Prize 1993 to Wilfried Täubner, Photographic Images with the Cube, Photography and Design Wilfried Täubner, Text by Klaus Flemming and Friedrich Riehl, Wilfried Täubner self-published, Kürten 1993, distribution by Lindemanns Verlag Stuttgart. This award recognizes the exemplary photographic quality of the award-winning work. Signed by the chairman of the Association of Publishers and Bookshops in Baden-Württemberg e. V. and Karl Steinorth, the chairman of the expert jury, Stuttgart, in November 1993. "

[8] Bundestag acquired photographic work by Wilfried Täubner , in: Kunst Köln 4/87, p. 98.