Private Collection Tillmans 15.50" x 11.50" was born in 1968 in Remscheid in the German area of Bergisches Land . At the age of 14 to 16, visits to museums in Desseldorf and to the Museum Ludwig in Cologne acquainted him with the photo-based art of Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol , which counts among his earliest influences. During his first visit to England as an exchange student in 1983, he discovered the British youth culture and the local fashion and music magazines of the time. From 1987 to 1990, he lived in Hamburg, there, in 1988, he had his first solo exhibitions, at Cafe Gnosa, Fabrik-Foto-Forum, and Front. From 1990 through 1992, he studied at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design (now Arts University Bournemouth) in southern England. After his studies he moved to London and then to New York in 1994 for a year, where he met the German painter Jochen Klein . After moving back to England, Tillmans lived with Klein until Klein died of AIDS-related complications in 1997. (condition good)

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