Wolfgang Tillmans

Quick Facts

Full Name	Wolfgang Tillmans
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Aug 16, 1968(1968-08-16)
Age	56
Birthplace	Remscheid
Country	Germany
Birth City	North Rhine-Westphalia
Horoscope	Leo

Wolfgang Tillmans Biography

Wolfgang Tillmans is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on August 16, 1968 in Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. German photographer of fine art and the only non-English photographer and artist to be awarded the Turner Prize.

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Wolfgang Tillmans (born 16 August 1968) is a German photographer. His diverse body of work is distinguished by observation of his surroundings and an ongoing investigation of the photographic medium’s foundations.

A fan of the 1980s experimental synthpop group Colourbox, Tillmans curated an exhibition dedicated to the group, Music of the Band (1982 – 1987), at his Between Bridges gallery in 2014, and also selected the track list and provided original artwork for a tie-in compilation of the same name. The exhibition was the first to be held in the gallery’s dedicated Playback Room, where visitors can listen to Tillmans’ music selections on high-end speakers.

He was a part of German artist Jochen Klein at England till Klein’s demise in the year 1997 caused by an AIDS related illness.

Wolfgang Tillmans Net Worth

Wolfgang Tillmans is one of the richest Photographer from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Wolfgang Tillmans 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He had an interest in photography at a young age, and was heavily influenced by the British youth culture in the 1980s.

He was awarded his Culture Prize of the German Society for Photography in 2009.

Tillmans was born in 1968 in Remscheid in the German area of Bergisches Land. At the age of 14 to 16, visits to museums in Düsseldorf and to the Museum Ludwig in Cologne acquainted him with the photo-based art of Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol, which counts among his earliest influences. During his first visit to England as an exchange student in 1983, he discovered the British youth culture and the local fashion and music magazines of the time. From 1987 to 1990, he lived in Hamburg; there, in 1988, he had his first solo exhibitions, at Café Gnosa, Fabrik-Foto-Forum, and Front. From 1990 through 1992, he studied at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design (now Arts University Bournemouth) in southern England. After his studies he moved to London and then to New York in 1994 for a year, where he met the German painter Jochen Klein. After moving back to England, Tillmans lived with Klein until Klein died of AIDS-related complications in 1997.

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From 1995, Tillmans primarily lived and worked in London. During the summer of 1998, Tillmans participated in a month-long residency at the last active Shaker community in the world, in Sabbathday Lake, Maine. Since 2007, he has divided his time between Berlin and London. Following a guest professorship at the Hochschule für bildende Kunst in Hamburg from 1998 to 1999 and an Honorary Fellowship at the Arts University Bournemouth in 2001, Tillmans was a professor for Interdisciplinary Art at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main from 2003 to 2006.

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Wolfgang Ranked on the list of most popular Photographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Wolfgang Tillmans celebrates birthday on August 16 of every year.

Tillmans exhibited his first abstract and damaged pictures as a Parkett edition in 1998. The edition, 60 unique works on color-negative photographic paper collected by the artist since he began colour printing in 1990, was a combination of true darkroom mistakes and years of darkroom experimentation that they inspired. The Silver works, which Tillmans has been creating since 1998, reflect the reaction of the photographic paper to light, as well as mechanical and chemical processes. The name Silver arises from the dirt traces and silver salt stains that remain on the paper when the artist develops the photographs in a machine that is filled with water and has not been completely cleaned.

What is Wolfgang Tillmans famous for?

Wolfgang Tillmans has been widely recognized and awarded for his photography throughout his career, with his most notable achievement being the first photographer and non-British individual to be the recipient of the Tate annual Turner Prize in 2000.

What is Wolfgang Tillmans doing now?

The artist currently lives and works between Berlin, Germany and London, United Kingdom. His works are presently held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, and the Kunstmuseum Basel, among others.

What does Wolfgang Tillmans shoot with?

Wolfgang Tillmans began his photographic career shooting exclusively on analog cameras , favouring the 50mm Contax. It was only in 2009 that he transitioned into digital photography, realising that the quality of the newer technology surpassed his trusty SLR.

What inspired Wolfgang Tillmans?

While in Hamburg, Tillmans became ensconced in the party scene and began, “to go out tons and take ecstacy.” Inspired by the magazine i-D , he bought a flash and started taking pictures. i-D published the photographs and shortly thereafter other magazines began commissioning him to document the club scene of Germany.

What camera does Tillmans use?

He does not use a specialized camera, but a Canon S.L.R. manufactured for general use. (Until he switched to a digital format, he always used 35-mm.