Michael Wolf
(German, 1954–2019)
Biography
Michael Wolf is a German-born photographer who captures the claustrophobia of city life through portraits of cramped apartments, unending skyscrapers, and crowded subway cars. The artist reveals the confluence of anonymity and individuality that exists in contemporary cities. “Does art always have to be nice? Or, to put it another way, why does the art we hang on our walls have to be nice?” the artist once mused. Born in 1954 in Munich, Germany, he was raised in the United States, Canada, and Europe before attending the North Toronto Collegiate Institute and the University of California, Berkeley. The artist would go on to receive a degree in visual communication at the University of Essen, studying under Otto Steinert during the 1970s. He also cites photographers Eugene Smith and Henri Cartier-Bresson as major influences. Wolf worked as a photojournalist for the German based magazine Stern in Hong Kong for a number of years before focusing on his own practice. The artist currently lives and works between Hong Kong and Paris, France. His works are held in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, IL, among others.
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