Lothar Wolleh was a well-known German photographer.

Until the end of the sixties, Lothar Wolleh worked as a commercial photographer. He took portraits of international contemporary painters, sculptors and performance art

Performance art

In art, performance art is a performance presented to an audience, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or...

ists. Altogether, he photographed about 109 artists, including known personalities such as Georg Baselitz

Georg Baselitz

Georg Baselitz is a German painter who studied in the former East Germany, before moving to what was then the country of West Germany...

, Joseph Beuys

Joseph Beuys

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, Dieter Roth

Dieter Roth

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, Jean Tinguely

Jean Tinguely

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, René Magritte

René Magritte

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, Günther Uecker

Günther Uecker

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, Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter

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, Edward Kienholz

Edward Kienholz

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, Otto Piene

Otto Piene

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, and Christo

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

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Lothar Wolleh spent his youth in a Germany stamped by war and Nazism

Nazism

Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...

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