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The internationally known photo artist Dieter Blum (*1936, lives and works in Düsseldorf) worked for DAIMLER, Porsche, Shell, ABB, Bilfinger, Festo or Jaeger-LeCoultre and and photographed for the MARLBORO advertising campaign between 2002 and 2004. His outstanding photographs can be found in magazines such as STERN, SPIEGEL, TIME, Vanity Fair, GEO, National Geographic. He devoted a large part of his work to the topics of music, dance and art.
Blum began taking photographs ambitiously as a teenager, became a member of the “lichtbildnergruppe esslingen” early on, worked as a curator of the European photo projects and founded his own studio. From 1971 onwards he created his first photo series for the magazine “Stern”, for which he worked as a freelance photographer for 29 years. His photos and reports subsequently appear in Spiegel, Zeit Magazin, Vanity Fair, Time Magazine and Geo, among others. Own publications and opulent illustrated books in very large editions were created, including: 1976, Africa - Fascination of a Continent; 1980, USSR – voyage of discovery to a rich country; 1984, Nippon – The new superstate Japan. In total, Dieter Blum has published over sixty books over the course of almost 40 years of work.\
Dieter Blum has been traveling around the world as a chronicler since the mid-1960s. He accompanied, among others, Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (1981) in rehearsals, performances and on tour, or - in 2005/2006 - the then Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder for eighteen months. In his freelance work, which is largely dedicated to dance, as a photographer and director he creates images with high aesthetic standards and erotic charisma. His exhibitions with these images Body Cathedrals (2003/04) became a sensation in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Dieter Blum received the greatest international attention for a cigarette-campaign, which he played a key role in shaping from 1992 to 2004 as one of two European photographers. The images and the appeal of freedom and adventure they claim have made it into one of the most successful campaigns ever. A German photographer who captures the genuinely American myth so well that the well-known US artist Richard Prince uses it in his work.
Exhibitions
2021
Blue Horses, photo sculpture, Venet-Haus Gallery, Neu-Ulm
2018
*Cowboys - The First shooting, *The Granary Art Gallery, Weston Park, Großbritannien
Wild Dancers, Leica Gallery, Konstanz
2017
Blue Horses, Missed. The Tower of the Blue Horses by Franz Marc, Staatl. Graph. Sammlung Munich
2016
Cowboys, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
foto.com, Esslinger Kunstverein, Villa Merkel Esslingen
2015
The Photographer, Venet-Haus Galerie, Neu-Ulm
Galerie Atelier Gustave, Paris
2011
Esslinger Kunstverein, Villa Merkel Esslingen
2010
The Amen Break, Gallery Thomas Flor
2009
Floor 2 Gallery, Rottweil
2007
Gallery Frankfurt
2006
Galerie Vonderbank Frankfurt/Main
2005
Venice Biennale
Galerie Terminus München
2004
Museum of Photography Moscow
Venice Biennale
2003
Gallery of the City of Stuttgart
State Russian Museum St.Petersburg
1999
Museum of cultures Basel-Basler Fasnacht
1998
German Dance Archive Cologne - SK Stiftung Kultur
1997
Frankfurter Kunstverein
1996
State Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage
1995
Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
1994
Galerie Holtmann Cologne
1992
The Granary Art Gallery, Weston Park (GB)
1987
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Kodak Gallery Tokyo, Ginza
1976
Africa City Museum Munich, Museum of Ethnology-Hamburg, USSR
1972
photokina solo exhibition: The Adventure
Awards
1969
Gold and Honorary Award, International Photo Salon de Bordeaux
1972
Obelisk, for the exhibition: The African Adventure, Photokina
1982
Word Press Photo Award, for the pictures of the Berlin Philharmonic and Herbert von Karajan in the Stern
2001
Staufer Medal for the book: The River of Life
2002
Art Directors Club for Marlboro
2015
Grande médaille de Vermeil, Arts-Sciences-Lettres
Black Rider, 1992
Silbergelatine-Abzug
127 x 185 x 5 cm (gerahmt)Enquiry
Coming Soon, 2010
Pigmentprint unter Liquid Gloss
176 x 176 x 5 cm (gerahmt)Enquiry
Lasso, 2003
Pigmentprint unter Liquid Gloss
186 x 146 x 6 cm (gerahmt)Enquiry
Michelangelo 2, 2002
Siebdruck auf Büttenpapier
105 x 80 cmEnquiry
Sunrise 1, 1994
Pigmentprint unter Liquid Gloss
150 x 300 cmEnquiry
3 Cowboys, 1998
Silbergelatine-Abzug
128,5 x 193,5 x 5 cm (gerahmt)Enquiry
Coming Soon, 2006
Pigmentprint
110 x 110 x 8 cm (in Acrylbox)Enquiry
Ismael Ivo als Francis Bacon, 1993
Pigmentprint hinter Acrylglas
160 x 230 x 6 cm (gerahmt)Enquiry
Michelangelo 1, 2002
Platinum Print
85 x 75 x 4 cm (gerahmt)Enquiry
Rauchender Mann, 1998
Silbergelatine-Abzug
193,5 x 126,5 x 4 cm (gerahmt)Enquiry
Wild To Be, 1998
Silbergelatine-Abzug
128 x 173 x 5 cm (gerahmt)Enquiry
3 Cowboys, 1998
Siebdruck auf Büttenpapier
70 x 100 cmEnquiry
Blaue Pferde, 1992
Fine Art Print auf Baryta-Papier
74 x 107,5 x 6 cm (gerahmt)Enquiry
Coming Soon, 2010
Pigmentprint
110 x 110 x 8 cm (in Acrylbox)Enquiry
Low Clearance, 1992
Pigmentprint unter Liquid Gloss
176 x 158 x 6 cm (gerahmt)Enquiry
Michelangelo 2, 2002
Pigmentprint unter Liquid Gloss
178 x 178 cmEnquiry
Wild 1, 1998
Pigmentprint unter Liquid Gloss
138 x 203 x 5 cm (gerahmt)Enquiry