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Wolfgang Tillmans

German • b. 1968

Biography

Since the early 1990s, Wolfgang Tillmans has pushed the boundaries of the photographic medium. Challenging the indexical nature traditionally associated with photography, his abstract and representational photographic bodies of work each in their own way put forward the notion of the photograph as object—rather than as a record of reality. While achieving his breakthrough with portraits and lifestyle photographs, documenting celebrity culture as well as LGBTQ communities and club culture, since the turn of the millennium the German photographer has notably created abstract work such as the Freischwimmer series, which is made in the darkroom without a camera.

Seamlessly integrating genres, subject matters, techniques and exhibition strategies, Tillmans is known for photographs that pair playfulness and intimacy with a persistent questioning of dominant value and hierarchy structures of our image-saturated world. In 2000, Tillmans was the first photographer to receive the prestigious Turner Prize.

Insights

Phillips established a new world auction record for Tillmans with Freischwimmer #84, selling for £605,000 in June 2017 in London.
Tillmans won the British Turner Prize in 2000.

"I see my practice as picture making. Whatever is available, I use."

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paper drop (black)
Estimate $40,000 - 60,000
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Past Lots

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Red Adidas
Estimate $1,200 - 1,800
Sold for $3,302
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Paper drop (star) III
Estimate £7,000 - 10,000
Sold for £15,240
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Indian Corn & Pomme Granate
Estimate £30,000 - 50,000
Sold for £76,200
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Ten Works: (i) Blautopf, landscape; (ii) Fire Island; (iii) Fische; (iv) Freischwimmer 13; (v) Lightning I; (vi) Mental Picture#105; (vii) paper drop (white) c; (viii) Pfingstrosen; (ix) Venus Drop; (x) Venus Transit, Clouds
Estimate £75,000 - 95,000
Sold for £95,250
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paper drop (Studio) I
Estimate HK$100,000 - 150,000
Sold for HK$177,800
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paper drop (London) II
Estimate HK$100,000 - 150,000
Sold for HK$139,700
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paper drop (red)
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000
Sold for £17,780
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still life, Lucca
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000
Sold for £12,700
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Kleine Welle
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000
Sold for £10,795
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haircut
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000
Sold for £6,350
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Weed
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Sold for £8,890
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Industrial Landscape
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Sold for £4,064
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Schneckenstilleben
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000
Sold for £11,430
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kneeling nude
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $15,240
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trashed flat - corridor
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
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Banja II
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starstruck #2
Estimate $30,000 - 50,000
Sold for $40,640
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Lutz, plastic trousers
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
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(i) Concorde L 432-8, (ii) Concorde L449-12, (iii) Concorde L433-1
Estimate $30,000 - 50,000
Sold for $35,560
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Seven works: (i) paper wrapped II (ii) Cornel, Zurich (iii) Damon, shower, head up (iv) sportflecken (v) after party. (vi) Faltenwurf (broom stick) (vii) Olli's arm, wide
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $53,340
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Paper drop (passage) II
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000
Sold for £20,320
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paper drop (passage) IV
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000
Sold for £23,940
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Jeremy
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000
Sold for £15,120
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white jeans on white
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000
Sold for £6,300
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