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Horst Tappe was born on 13 May, 1938 in Germany, is a German photographer. Discover Horst Tappe's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?
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Horst Tappe Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Horst Tappe worth at the age of 67 years old? Horst Tappe’s income source is mostly from being a successful photographer. He is from Germany. We have estimated Horst Tappe's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Tappe for many years used to photograph the Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977, author of Lolita) and the painter and graphic artist Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980, who also was the founder of the Salzburg School of Seeing) friends.
Both lived like Tappe on Lake Geneva, the photographer immortalized both in innumerable portraits; a selection of these photos—supplemented by citations of those portrayed—has been published in the form of two books.
Only a few months after the publication of his illustrated book on Kokoschka, Horst Tappe died at the age of 67 years after a short illness at the Hôpital du Samaritain in Vevey.
Portrait photographs of 5,000 writers, visual artists, musicians, politicians and celebrities—among them Konrad Adenauer, Isabel Allende, Willy Brandt, Elias Canetti, Charlie Chaplin, Noël Coward, Salvador Dalí, Ian Fleming, Patricia Highsmith, Ernst Jünger, Oskar Kokoschka, Gabriel García Márquez, Vladimir Nabokov, Pablo Picasso, Ezra Pound, Salman Rushdie, Georges Simenon, Susan Sontag, Wole Soyinka, Igor Stravinsky and Peter Ustinov.
Horst Tappe (13 May 1938 in Gütersloh, Germany – 21 August 2005 Vevey, Switzerland) was a German photographer who lived in Switzerland since 1963.
Tappe was famous for his portraits of creative artists, writers, philosophers, scientists from around the world.
Horst Tappe was born in 1938 (not 1941 as sometimes published) in Gütersloh.
After basic training in a traditional photo studio and an internship at the Hamburg School of Photography, he attended the courses of Marta Hoepffner at the School of Experimental Photography in Hofheim am Taunus near Frankfurt am Main.
At the School of Photography in Vevey, Switzerland, he graduated with Oswald Ruppen.
From 1965 until his death, and he lived and worked in Territet-Veytaux (Montreux) on Lake Geneva.
He regularly traveled to the big cities of Europe, where he photographed personalities from the visual art, literature, music and politics.
Tappe's portrait photographs appeared worldwide for decades in newspapers and magazines and have also been presented in numerous solo exhibitions to the public.
1999: Montreux, Cognac; 2000: St. Malo; 2002: Bern, Sankt Petersburg, Basel, Chiasso; 2003: Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Moscow; 2004: Stuttgart, Paris; 2005: Leipzig, New York, Washington
