Artist Index: Bauer, Wilfried

Untitled (Reflecting wet road in Autumn). Late 1970s. Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on Agfa paper. 30 x 39,5 cm. Signed by the photographer in pencil and photographer's copyright stamp, address 6507 INGELHEIM Bergstraße 7 on the verso.

Wilfried Bauer was one of Germany's most well-known reportage photographers. Between 1964-1968 he was Robert Häusser's assistant and as of 1969 he was a regular photographer for the German newspaper Die Zeit. As of 1976 he worked as a freelance photographer for various magazines such as Stern, Spiegel and FAZ-Magazin. In his last years there were less and less commissions and he also battled with depression. In December 2005 he burned his entire photo and negative archive and then tragically committed suicide.