Michael Ruetz

Michael Ruetz ( born April 4, 1940 in Berlin ) is an artist and author. As a photographer, he is internationally recognized.

  • 5.1 Books and publications by Michael Ruetz (selection)
  • 5.2 catalogs and anthologies of texts and contributions by Michael Ruetz

Life

Michael Ruetz was born in 1940 in Berlin. His ancestors came from Riga, where she worked as a printer, journalist and publisher. After leaving school in Bremen Michael Ruetz studied Sinology and Japanese Studies and Journalism in Freiburg, Munich and Berlin. Until 1969, he wrote his thesis about the novel Nieh Hua - Hai Tseng P'u - (1905 ). Michael Ruetz put 1975 as the External exam test with Otto Steinert and Willy Fleckhaus at the Folkwang School in Essen from. From 1969-1973 he was a member of the Stern editorial in Hamburg. He then went freelance and has since worked as a freelance writer and photographer.

Since 1981, Michael Ruetz contract is author of the publisher Little, Brown & Co. / New York Graphic Society, Boston, Massachusetts. In 1982, he accepted a full professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Braunschweig and taught there until 2005 Photography in the field of communication design. Michael Ruetz spent during several stays abroad a total of 12 years in Italy, Australia and the United States. In 2002 he organized a major retrospective of Heinz Hajek - Halke at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

Michael Ruetz is a member of DGPh, the Society of German Lichtbildner ( GDL) / German Photo Academy and the Academy of Arts in Berlin. In May 2002 he was appointed et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture Jean -Jacques Aillagon in the Ordre des Arts.

Work

Michael Ruetz end of the 60s was known for his images of the West German student movement. The photographs of the Berlin APO time at which he participated as a chronicler, were published in major periodicals such as Time, Life, mirror and time and later appeared under the title You have those guys only see the face. APO Berlin 1966-1969 in book form.

In the 1960s and 1970s, he traveled on behalf of the star of the GDR, including during the World Festival of Youth in 1973 and the 1st May 1974. Likewise, Michael Ruetz photographed the actors and liquidators of the Prague Spring. In other reports he showed Greece at the time of the military dictatorship, Chile after the electoral victory of Salvador Allende and Guinea- Bissau in the Revolutionary War. Dating from around 1970 date portraits of François Mitterrand, Helmut Kohl and other European politicians.

With how necropolis and numerous series of images that thematically on the Travel Goethe and Fontane's projects are based ( on Goethe's footsteps, I too in Arcadia / Goethe's Italian Journey, Fontane walks through the Mark Brandenburg), he turned increasingly to cultural, historical and documentary projects.

More recent projects deal with the possibilities of visualization of time and transience. The second view, Timescape and The unblinking gaze document to change the " visible environment" in the course of time. Under the title Eye on Time, Michael Ruetz dedicated at longer intervals to the same object and subject and so maintains changes and developments of the same place for years.

Awards

  • Kodak Photo Book Prize for In Goethe's footsteps, necropolis, APO / Berlin 1966-1969 and land of the Greeks
  • 1979 Most Beautiful Book of Switzerland for with Goethe in Switzerland

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection )

Group exhibitions ( selection)

Bibliography

Books and publications by Michael Ruetz (selection)

  • M. R. Catalogue of the gallery micro. , Berlin 1970
  • Christo wrapped Monschau. DuMont, Cologne 1971
  • Pictures from Germany. Catalogue of Spectrum Gallery, Hannover 1976
  • In Goethe's footsteps. Artemis Verlag, Zurich 1978 and 1981
  • Necropolis. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1978 book club edition. Ex Libris, Zurich
  • With Goethe in Switzerland. Artemis Verlag, Zurich 1979
  • In the other Germany. Artemis Verlag, Zurich and Munich 1979
  • "You have to see this guy only in the face" - APO Berlin from 1966 to 1969. Zweitausendeins Verlag, Frankfurt 1980
  • Necropolis. Peripheral location, amBEATion Verlag, Berlin o.J., about 1983
  • Eye on America. Little, Brown and Company / New York Graphic Society, Boston, 1984
  • Scottish Symphony. In Commemoration of James Boswell 's and Dr. Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland. Little, Brown and Company / New York Graphic Society, Boston 1985.
  • Even in Arcadia I / Goethe's Italian Journey. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich, 1985.
  • Moon / Luna. Franz Greno Verlag, Nördlingen 1986
  • Beuys. Franz Greno Verlag, Nördlingen 1986
  • Eye on Australia. Little, Brown and Company / New York Graphic Society, Boston 1987
  • Roman vistas. List Verlag, Munich 1987
  • Fontane walks through the Mark Brandenburg. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1987
  • Italy: Seasons of Light. Little, Brown and Company / New York Graphic Society, Boston 1988.
  • About Berlin. Munich 1991
  • Arno Schmidt. Bargfeld, Zweitausendeins Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993
  • Visible time. Zweitausendeins Verlag, Frankfurt 1995 trade edition. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 1997
  • Cosmos. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, 1997
  • Library of the eyes / A Library for the Eye. Photographs from 1958 to 1997. ( Library of the eye IV). Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 1997
  • 1968 / An era is visited. Zweitausendeins Verlag, Frankfurt 1997 Steidl. Verlag, Göttingen, 1998
  • Wind eye. ( Library of the eye V). With a text by Klaus Honnef. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, 2001
  • Eye on Time. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, 2007

Catalogs and anthologies of texts and contributions by Michael Ruetz

  • The German photo. Stuttgart 1969
  • Dumont Photo I. With a text about the dramaturgy of light. Cologne about 1980
  • German photography after 1945. Fotoforum Kassel. PPS Gallery, Hamburg 1979
  • The estate of Heinz Hajek - Halke. In: Catalogue of Rudolf Kicken Gallery. ART 25 Basel 1994
  • German Photography 1870-1970. Power of a medium. Catalogue of the exhibition by Klaus Honnef in the Kunsthalle of the Federal Republic of Germany, Cologne 1997
  • In the visible signatures. A century of photography in Germany. Catalogue by Klaus Honnef, Kunsthalle Erfurt 1998
  • Bulletin of the German Photographic Academy 14 Leinfelden 1998
  • Klaus Honnef: Art of the 20th Century. Taschen Verlag, Cologne 1998
  • Power of age. Exhibition Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, 1998. Kunstmuseum Bonn 1999
  • Heinz Hajek - Halke, the great unknown. In: Catalogue of the exhibition at the Haus am Waldsee, Berlin. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 1997
  • The Roman track. Artistic research on the timeliness of the ancient world. Text in the catalog of the exhibition of the same name. Haus am Waldsee, Berlin 1998. With seven figures
  • Diagonal view. In: Photography in Germany III. Munich 1999
  • Fifty years of the Federal Republic. Random House, Hamburg 1999
  • The Stone Guest. In: Photography in Germany IV Munich in 1999
  • Who is Hajek, who is Halke? : Christine Fischer Defoy: " Art, under construction a stone ': The West Berlin's art and music colleges in the tension of the postwar period. Publisher: University of the Arts, Berlin 2001
  • Amalia 's World. Frauds, oblique view. In: Photography in Germany. Schneider- Henn, Munich 2002
  • Célèbre et méconnu: Heinz Hajek - Halke - Famous and little known: Heinz Hajek - Halke. Catalog of the retrospective exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, Paris 2001. Together with Alain Sayag
  • Hajek - Halke. Artist, anarchist. Afterword to the monograph of the life's work of Heinz Hajek - Halke, Part I. Edited by Michael Ruetz. With texts by Alain Sayag, Klaus Honnef and Rainer tribe. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2005
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