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Abisag Tüllmann (7 October 1935 – 24 September 1996) was a German photographer.


Life

Born in
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, Westphalia, Tüllmann, daughter of Hedwig and Franz Tüllmann († 28 July 1945), was born with the civil name Ursula Eva Tüllmann. Her maternal grandparents were Louise Adele and Isidor Fränkel. The grandfather, who worked as a merchant, came from a Jewish family. Her father, Franz Tüllmann, a trained hairdresser, ran a (reading circle) since 1928. Since his wife, "
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" trained clerk according to Nazi terminology, his father had to sell his business in 1937. After changing jobs as a hairdresser and labourer, he was sent in 1944 to
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(Silesia) as a
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. Since 1946, Tüllmann lived with her mother in
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, where she attended the women's secondary school, which she finished in 1952 with the
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. From 1952 to 1953, Tüllmann completed an internship as a carpenter. From 1953 to 1955 she studied
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at the Werkkunstschule in Wuppertal-Vohwinkel for four semesters. After dropping out of her studies, she first worked as a technical draughtswoman and then, from 1956 to 1957, in the Wuppertal advertising photo company ''it copyright'', which was run by the writer Paul Pörtner. In 1957, Tüllmann moved from Wuppertal to
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. She learned photography as a trainee for a year with the advertising photographer Dieter Jörs. In 1958, she began working for the ''
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'' as well as for the ''
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'' and ''
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''. In May 1961, Tüllmann joined the
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and henceforth called herself a ''freelance photojournalist''. She also supplied magazines such as ''
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'', ''
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'', '' Magnum'' and '. In Frankfurt, she developed intensive contacts to the art and cultural scene. Her friends included the writers and
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as well as the graphic artist Hans Hillmann. At the same time, the city itself became a motif of her work, as documented by a book of photographs published in 1963 and laid out by Hans Michel. In addition, she had a great journalistic interest in Israel and reported in numerous reports from the crisis centres there. From 1964, she also worked as a theatre photographer in Stuttgart, Bochum and Vienna, at the , at the Brussel Opera and at the
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. Around 1970, she began teaching photography at the
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and at colleges in Kassel, Mainz, Frankfurt and Hamburg. Tüllmann died in Frankfurt at the age of 60. She was buried in the
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.


Legacy

Before her death, Tüllmann had given her theatre photography to the Deutsches Theatermuseum in Munich. Posthumously, the
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took over the complete photojournalistic oeuvre. On the basis of a testamentary disposition by the artist, the Abisag Tüllmann Foundation was founded in Frankfurt in September 2008, which is financed with the proceeds from the archive. In addition to promoting publications and exhibitions of the artist's work, it also aims to promote artistic photojournalism. To this end, an Abisag Tüllmann Prize is awarded.


Honours

* 1993: , Frankfurt * 1995: Sibylla-Merian-Förderpreis des hessischen Ministeriums für Kunst


Exhibitions

* 2010/2011: ''Abisag Tüllmann 1935–1996. Bildreportagen und Theaterfotografie.'' 2010
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, 2011
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.


Publications

* ''Großstadt''. Foreword Richard Kirn; de./en./fr. Societät, Frankfurt 1963. * Bettina Decke, Abisag Tüllmann: ''Betrifft:
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. Unterdrückung und Widerstand in einer Siedlerkolonie.'' Megapress, Edition Mega, Frankfurt 1974, . * '' Kursbuch 59 – Bilderbuch.'' Mit Fotografien von Abisag Tüllmann, Giovanni Rinaldi, and others. Rotbuch, Berlin 1980. * ''Unsere Welt. Bilder aus dem
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. Spielzeit 1981/82.'' Bochum 1982. *
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(ed.): ''Abisag Tüllmann – Photographien.'' Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, 1995, . * Abisag Tüllmann Photographien; nlässlich der Präsentation des Werkes von Abisag Tüllmann im Museum für Moderne Kunst im Frühjahr 1995


Further reading

* Ulrike May: ''Betrifft: Abisag Tüllmann. Biografische Notizen.'' In Martha Caspers (ed.): ''Abisag Tüllmann 1935–1996. Bildreportagen und Theaterfotografie.'' Ausstellung im Historischen Museum Frankfurt. Hatje-Cantz, Ostfildern 2011, . * Kristina Lowis und Christina Stehr: ''„Was, um Himmels willen, verstehen Sie unter ‚Arbeitsabzug – keine Originale‘?“: Abisag Tüllmanns fotografischer Nachlass im Spannungsfeld zwischen analogem Archiv und digitaler Präsenz''. In Rundbrief Fotografie. In Rundbrief Fotografie 27 (2020), 3, .


Documentary

* Claudia von Alemann: ''Die Frau mit der Kamera: Porträt der Fotografin Abisag Tüllmann.'' 80 Minuten, Deutschland 2011.Eva-Maria Magel
''Porträt einer leisen Großen.''
Film review in the FAZ, 31 October 2015, retrieved 11 January 2021.


Catalogue

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Museum für Moderne Kunst The Museum für Moderne Kunst (''Museum of Modern Art''), or short MMK, in Frankfurt, was founded in 1981 and opened to the public 6 June 1991. The museum was designed by the Viennese architect Hans Hollein. It is part of Frankfurt's Museumsuf ...
(ed.): ''Photographien.'' Text contributions from Jean-Christophe Ammann and Olof Hansen. Frankfurt, 1995. * Martha Caspers (ed.): ''Abisag Tüllmann 1935–1996. Bildreportagen und Theaterfotografie.'' Exhibition at the Historisches Museum Frankfurt.
Hatje Cantz Verlag Hatje Cantz Verlag (English: Hatje Cantz Publishing) is a German book publisher specialising in photography, art, architecture and design. It was established in 1945 by Gerd HatjeBildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz: Bildmaterial von Abisag Tüllmann
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* Abisag Tüllmann im ''Frankfurter Personenlexikon'' (Ulrike May

* https://bpk-archive.de/tuellmann/


Sources

* Volker Breidecker: ''Immer im Umbruch''. In ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'', No 55, 8 March 2011, . {{DEFAULTSORT:Tullmann, Abisag 20th-century German photographers 1935 births 1996 deaths People from Hagen Burials at Frankfurt Main Cemetery 20th-century German women photographers