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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."

Past Lots

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Wolfgang Tillmans
paper drop (white) b
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $24,130
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Wolfgang Tillmans
o.T. München
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $16,510
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Wolfgang Tillmans
O.M.
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $12,700
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119
Wolfgang Tillmans
Sunset night drive, a
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $5,334
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234
Wolfgang Tillmans
Chris Cunningham, 1998
Estimate £25,000 - 35,000
Sold for £33,020
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235
Wolfgang Tillmans
Separate System, Reading Prison (self a)
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000
Sold for £21,590
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22
Wolfgang Tillmans
paper drop (spring)
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000
Sold for £21,590
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262
Wolfgang Tillmans
paper drop (light) a
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
Sold for $48,260
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263
Wolfgang Tillmans
Lutteurs
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $8,255
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264
Wolfgang Tillmans
Lutz, plastic trousers
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $6,096
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265
Wolfgang Tillmans
Stilleben Nüsschen II
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
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266
Wolfgang Tillmans
paper drop (black) III
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $12,700
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142
Wolfgang Tillmans
paper drop (black)
Estimate $40,000 - 60,000
Sold for $73,660
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140
Wolfgang Tillmans
Gilbert & George
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $8,890
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114
Wolfgang Tillmans
Red Adidas
Estimate $1,200 - 1,800
Sold for $3,302
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111
Wolfgang Tillmans
Paper drop (star) III
Estimate £7,000 - 10,000
Sold for £15,240
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60
Wolfgang Tillmans
Indian Corn & Pomme Granate
Estimate £30,000 - 50,000
Sold for £76,200
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61
Wolfgang Tillmans
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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342
Wolfgang Tillmans
paper drop (Studio) I
Estimate HK$100,000 - 150,000
Sold for HK$177,800
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343
Wolfgang Tillmans
paper drop (London) II
Estimate HK$100,000 - 150,000
Sold for HK$139,700
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79
Wolfgang Tillmans
paper drop (red)
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000
Sold for £17,780
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80
Wolfgang Tillmans
still life, Lucca
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000
Sold for £12,700
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82
Wolfgang Tillmans
Kleine Welle
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000
Sold for £10,795
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83
Wolfgang Tillmans
haircut
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000
Sold for £6,350
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