Wolfgang Reisewitz

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Wolfgang Reisewitz (born September 9, 1917 in Diedenhofen , Alsace-Lorraine , † February 8, 2012 in Wiesbaden ) was a German photographer of the post-war period.

Life

Reisewitz was born in Thionville in 1917, the son of a photographer. When he was released from Soviet captivity in 1947, he followed in his father's footsteps and became a photographer. After attending the Bavarian State College for Photography in 1948/49, which he completed with the master's examination, Reisewitz was a master student with Adolf Lazi in Stuttgart. When he was supposed to organize an exhibition in 1949, there was a dispute with the conservative jury. Reisewitz then founded the fotoform group with like-minded people , whose exhibitions in Germany and Europe led to a renewal of German post-war photography . In 1951 he took part in the exhibition Subjective Photography in Saarbrücken put together by Otto Steinert . The term “New Seeing” was coined together. Reisewitz turned more and more to abstract photography and won numerous international awards and prizes. In 1999 he was awarded the Culture Prize of the German Society for Photography .

In 1962 Reisewitz was given a teaching position at the Mainz Werkkunstschule, which later became the Mainz University of Applied Sciences . There he became professor for design photography. He died in Wiesbaden in 2012.

Awards

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2000: Apprenticeship years light years - The Munich Photo School 1900-2000. Munich City Museum / Photography Collection, Munich
  • 2002: New Seeing - Photographs by Wolfgang Reisewitz Historisches Museum der Pfalz, Speyer
  • 2003: Photo legends: Wolfgang Reisewitz, Max Jacoby Representation of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, Berlin
  • 2003: Wolfgang Reisewitz - New Seeing. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
  • 2005: 51st Venice Biennale
  • 2006: From Henri Cartier-Bresson to Charlotte March. Insights into the collection of the German Society for Photography. C / O Berlin, International Forum For Visual Dialogues
  • 2007: Résonances I. Photographier après la guerre. Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris

literature

  • Ludger Tekampe: New seeing, photographs by Wolfgang Reisewitz. Braus, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89904-002-3 .
  • Interview with Wolfgang Reisewitz. In: Ulrich Pohlmann, Rudolf Scheutle (Hrsg.): Lehrjahre Lichtjahre, The Munich Photo School 1900-2000. Munich 2000, ISBN 3-88814-943-6 , pp. 135-136.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Mainz photographer Wolfgang Reisewitz died. In: Main tip. February 22, 2012.
  2. ↑ Culture Prize of the DGPh
personal data
SURNAME Reisewitz, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Thionville
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 2012
Place of death Wiesbaden