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PHOTOGRAPHER · BORN 1968 · GERMANY

Wolfgang Tillmans

Intimate snapshots, abstractions and installations of mixed sizes.

Born
1968
Country
Germany
Field
Photographer
Wolfgang Tillmans
Portrait: Hpschaefer www.reserv-art.de, CC BY-SA 3.0

KNOWN FOR

  1. 2003Freischwimmer
  2. 2003If One Thing Matters, Everything Matters (Tate)

WHY THEY MATTER

First photographer and first non-British artist to win the Turner Prize (2000); retrospectives at Tate Modern and MoMA (2022).

THE LIFE

Tillmans emerged in the 1990s photographing friends and club culture for magazines such as i-D. He went on to make abstract pictures without a camera and installations that mix images of different sizes on the wall. In 2000 he became the first photographer to win the Turner Prize. The Museum of Modern Art held a major survey in 2022.

Source: Wikipedia

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