Lothar Wolleh - a photographer of modernity

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <p><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#000000">This side contains the photos and portraits made by the German photographer Lothar Wolleh: Josef Beuys, Georg Baselitz, Günther Uecker, Otto Piene, Soto, Dieter Roth, Lucio Fontana, Man Ray, Palermo, Edward Kienholz, René Magritte, Gerhard Richter, Claes Oldenburg, Hans Richter, Edward Kienholz, Henryk Stazewski, Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#000000">He photographed 109 Künstler in all. Magdalena Abakanowicz, Yaakow Agam, Pierre Alechinsky, Fernandez Arman, Armando Yoannis Avramidis, Georg Baselitz, Heinz Baumüller, Joseph Beuys, Max Bill, Bram Bogaert, Marian Bogusz, Agostino Bonalumi, Artur Brunsz, Camille Bryen, Pol Bury, Enrico Castellani, Mario Ceroli, Cesar, Christo, Gianni Colombo, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Gerad Deschamps, Paul Dierkes, Cesar Domela, Francois Dufrene, Ulrich Erben, Robert Filliou, Lucio Fontana, Vic Gentils, Karl Gerstner, Stefan Girowski, Renate Göbel, Zbigniew Gostomski, Jerzy Grabowski, Gotthard Graubner, Raymond Hains, Al Hansen, Bernhard Heiliger, Jan Henderikse, Geoffrey Hendriks, Jiri Hillmar, Dorothy Iannone, Margrit Jäggli, Jerzy Kalucki, Allen Kaprow, Edward Kienholz, Konrad Klapheck, Jiry Kolar, Jan Kotik, Edward Krasinski, Ferdinand Kriwet, Frantisek Kyncl, Laszlo Lakner, Berhard Luginbühl, Adolf Luther, Heinz Mack, René Magritte, Jadwiga Maziarska, Mansouroff, Christian Megert, Henry Moore, Claes Oldenburg, Roman Opalka, Jerzy Orbitowski, Robin Page, Palermo, Lil Picard, Otto Piene, Mark Prent, Man Ray, Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Martial Raysse, Erich Reusch, Gerhard Richter, Hans Richter, Klaus Rinke, Mommo Rotella, Dieter Roth, Ulrich Rückriem, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Niki de Saint Phalle, Jan J.Schoonhoven, Kajetan Sosnowski, Jesus Raffael Soto, Daniel Spoerri, Friederich Stabenau, Henryk Stazewski, Jonasz Stern, Rolf Szymanski, Feliks Szyszko, Paul Talmann, Andre Thomkins, Jean Tinguely, Mark Tobey, Jerzy Trelinski, Günther Uecker, Georges Vantongerloo, Jef Verheyen, Jacques Mahe de la Villegle, Marian Warzecha, Stefan Wewerka, Ryszard Winiarski, Ray Woolard, Fritz Wotruba, Herbert Zangs, Rajmund Ziemski,</font></p> <p><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Arial;'>Lothar Wolleh (1930 -1979), who studied with Otto Steinert (Folkwang school), was one of Germany's most successful advertising photographers. In the late 1960s, he abandoned commercial work and - at the suggestion of his friend Günther Uecker - began to create portraits of internationally renowned painters, sculptors and actionists. He also worked on his own published volumes of photographic art (e.g. "<i>Art Szene</i> <i>Düsseldorf</i>“ [Art Scene Düsseldorf], "<i>UdSSR</i>“ [USSR], "<i>Apostolorum Limina</i>“ on the holy year of 1975 or "<i>Unterwasserbuch</i>“ with Joseph Beuys).</span></font></b></p> <p style='text-align:justify'><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Arial;'>Until his unexpected death in 1979, Lothar Wolleh worked on his collection of portraits of celebrated artists, which is presented on this website. </span></font></b></p> <p style='text-align:justify'><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Arial;'>He photographed 109 artists in all. With his unique flair and highly developed sense of the artist's individuality, Wolleh produced a series of personalised portraits which - image by image - reveal the inner essence of the artist and their work. The rigorously symmetrical structure places the artist at the very centre of the portrait and removes the stylised atmosphere of the studio. In this way, Wolleh offers insights into the artist's creativity without using the conventional "artist-image" perspective. </span></font></b></p> <p style='text-align:justify'><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Arial;'>Another notable feature of this collection is that Wolleh invited the artists to enhance and amend their portraits with their own media. For this purpose, the photographs were usually transferred to photographic canvas and reproduced in 50 x 50 cm or 100 x 100 cm format. In this way, a unique symbiosis of art and artistic photography was created. Almost all the portraits shown here were reworked by the artists themselves. The reworked images will be included in the website at a later date. </span></font></b></p> <p><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">Sitemap</font></p> <p><font face="Arial Black" size="3" color="#000000">Texte</font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#000000"><a href="/leben.htm" target="mainFrame"><b>Leben und Werk - Lothar Wolleh</b></a></font></p> <p><font color="#000000"><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="/art_1.htm" target="mainFrame">„Ist das nicht irre!“ Ein Versuch über Lothar Wolleh,</a></font><a href="/art_1.htm"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang=de style='font-family:arial'> <span lang=de style='font-family: arial'>von Heiner Stachelhaus</span></span></font></a></b></font> <font color="#000000"><br> <font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang=DE style='font-family:Arial'><b><a href="/art_2.htm" target="mainFrame">Für Lothar Wolleh - Entwurf eines Porträts</a></b></span><a href="/art_2.htm"><b><span lang=de style='font-family:arial'> von Ingrid Bachér</span></b></a></font></font> <font color="#000000"><br> <b><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="/art_3.htm" target="mainFrame">Kam nach sechs Jahren in sibirischem Gefangenenlager nach Gotland</a></font> <a href="/art_3.htm" target="mainFrame"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style='font-family:arial;'>von Janne </span></font></a></b></font> <font color="#000000"><br> <br> <b><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="/list.htm" target="_self">Liste der portätierten Künstler</a></font></b></font> </p> <p> </p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#000000"><font face="Arial Black">This side shows the photographic work of Lothar Wolleh:</font> </font></p> <blockquote> <p><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#000000"><a href="#" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('/beuys/unterwasserbuch/unterwasserbuch0.htm','Galerie','width=545,height=385')" alt="galerie: beuys" title="galerie: beuys">Josef Beuys, </a><br> <a href="#" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('/verueckte_wirklichkeit/baselitz.htm','Galerie','width=545,height=385')" alt="georg baselitz" title="georg baselitz">Georg Baselitz,</a> <br> <a href="#" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('/die_dritte_dimension/uecker_a.htm','Galerie','width=545,height=385')" alt="günther uecker" title="günther uecker">Günther Uecker,</a> <br> <a href="#" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('/die_dritte_dimension/piene.htm','Galerie','width=545,height=385')" alt="otto piene" title="otto piene">Otto Piene,</a> <br> <a href="#" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('/die_dritte_dimension/soto.htm','Galerie','width=545,height=385')" alt="jesus r. soto" title="jesus r. soto">Soto, </a><br> <a href="#" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('/readymade/roth.htm','Galerie','width=545,height=385')" alt="dieter roth" title="dieter roth">Dieter Roth, </a><br> <a href="#" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('/die_dritte_dimension/fontana_a.htm','Galerie','width=545,height=385')" alt="luicio fontana" title="luicio fontana">Lucio Fontana, </a><br> <a href="#" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('/verueckte_wirklichkeit/ray.htm','Galerie','width=545,height=385')" alt="man ray" title="man ray">Man Ray,</a> <br> <a href="#" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('/konstructivismus/palermo.htm','Galerie','width=545,height=385')" alt="palermo" title="palermo">Palermo, </a><br> <a href="#" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('/readymade/kienholz.htm','Galerie','width=545,height=385')" alt="edward kienholz" title="edward kienholz">Edward Kienholz, </a><br> <a href="#" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('/verueckte_wirklichkeit/magritte_a.htm','Galerie','width=545,height=385')" alt="galerie: verückte wirklichkeit" title="galerie: verückte wirklichkeit">René Magritte, </a><br> <a href="#" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('/verueckte_wirklichkeit/richter_a.htm','Galerie','width=545,height=385')" alt="gerhard richter" title="gerhard richter">Gerhard Richter, </a><br> <a href="#" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('/readymade/oldenburg.htm','Galerie','width=545,height=385')" alt="claes oldenburg" title="claes oldenburg">Claes Oldenburg, </a><br> <a href="#" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('/konstructivismus/richter.htm','Galerie','width=545,height=385')" alt="hans richter" title="hans richter">Hans Richter, </a><br> <a href="#" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('/readymade/kienholz.htm','Galerie','width=545,height=385')" alt="edward kienholz" title="edward kienholz">Edward Kienholz, </a><br> <a href="#" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('/konstructivismus/stazewski.htm','Galerie','width=545,height=385')" alt="galerie: konstruktivismus" title="galerie: konstruktivismus">Henryk Stazewski, </a><br> <a href="#" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('/noveau_realisme/niki.htm','Galerie','width=545,height=385')" alt="niki de saint phalle" title="niki de saint phalle">Niki de Saint Phalle, </a><br> <a href="#" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('/noveau_realisme/tinguelly.htm','Galerie','width=545,height=385')" alt="tinguely" title="tinguely">Jean Tinguely.</a></font> </p> <p> </p> <p><font color="#000000"><a 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