Werner Branz

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Werner Branz
Born	(1955-04-29)29 April 1955 Lustenau, Austria
🏡 Residence	Dornbirn, Ibiza
🏳️ Nationality	Austrian
💼 Occupation	Photographer
🌐 Website	www.branz.com

Werner Branz (* 29 April 1955 in Lustenau) is an Austrian fine-art photographer. After his master's degree, he worked in the USA, Europe, the Far East, and the Near East, photographed campaigns for Yves Saint Laurent and others. He has had exhibitions in New York, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Singapore, Sydney, Wien and Arles. One of his artworks is owned by the Sammlung Ludwig as a loan to the Russischen Museum.

Branz was honoured in 1989 with the European Colorart Gold Master. He received the Kodak Gold Award three times, won the 1998 Hasselblad Open, and three times the Spider Award. He was also named Photographer of the Year and won the Masterscup Los Angeles Photographer of the Year 2008. Today he lives in Dornbirn, Austria and Ibiza, Spain.

Life and career

Early life

Branz learned at his father's company, a photographer well known for his landscape photography. After his master's degree in 1978, he worked for Hugo Hofer, the most important portrait photographer in Austria. Then his career took him to Los Angeles where he worked for Monte Zucker.

Photography

After his return, he founded his own photo studio. But soon he found his destiny in fine-art photography and he began to travel the world. He worked internationally in the USA, Europe, the Far East, the Near East and Australia.

Branz as artist

His work is extraordinarily versatile, from nude photography, Landscape photography, Still life to Architectural photography. He creates the pictures in his mind, and they are already finished before the shutter clicks. His current work is still influenced by his deep knowledge of old-school photography. Light, print techniques and his knowledge give a spectacular depth to his works.

In the 1990s he visited Arles frequently, where he showed his work in the Café Van Gogh directly beside Peter Lindbergh, Helmut Newton and Richard Avedon.

Werner Branz produces and provokes. His works are exhibited all over the world: Cologne, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Arles, Vienna, Singapore, Ibiza, Paris, Las Vegas, Norway, Dubai, New York, Miami, Sydney, San Francisco, but also in his homeland in Rankweil, Bregenz, Feldkirch, Lindau and Vaduz.

His art is shown (amongst others) in the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, in the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney and the Museum Angerlehner, Austria.

Fashion and Design

His works have been published in several magazines like Vogue Paris, Rolling Stone and Photographie. He photographed campaigns for Yves Saint Laurent, Versace, Dolce & Gabbana, Miss Sixty, DKNY and others.

He has portrayed Lenny Kravitz, Sting, Elton John, Rod Stewart, Pino Sagliocco, Sheikh Faisal bin Khalid Al Quasimi.

Technique

Branz uses many different processes to bring his photos to life, like the bromoil process, mainly for nude photography, which develops an obscure characteristic. In his early years, he worked with large-scale (8"x10") Polaroid and applied them positive and negative. These early techniques still have a big influence on his work.

Awards

• International color awards - 10th awards: Category Nude: 2nd Place, Merit of Excellence, Beverley Hills 2017
• International color awards - 10th awards: Category Portrait: 3rd Place, Honor of Distinction, Beverley Hills 2017
• International color awards - 7th awards: Category Nude: 2nd Place, Merit of Excellence, Beverley Hills 2014
• International color awards - 7th awards: Category Nature: Honorable Mention, Beverley Hills 2014
• International color awards - 7th awards: Category Fashion: Honorable Mention (2x), Beverley Hills 2014
• The spider awards - 6th gallery: Category Portrait: 1st Place, Outstanding Achievement, Beverley Hills 2011
• International color awards - 4th awards: Category Nude: Honorable Mention, Beverley Hills 2011
• International color awards - 3rd awards: Photographer of the year: 1st Place, Outstanding Achievement, Beverley Hills 2010
• International color awards - 3rd awards: Category Nude: 1st Place, Outstanding Achievement, Beverley Hills 2010
• International color awards - 3rd awards: Category Nude: 3rd Place, Honor of Distinction, Beverley Hills 2010
• International color awards: Category Nude: 1st Place, Outstanding Achievement, Beverley Hills 2010
• The spider awards - 5th gallery: Photographer of the year: 2nd Place, Merit of Excellence, Beverley Hills 2010
• The spider awards - 5th gallery: Category Nature: 1st Place, Outstanding Achievement, Beverley Hills 2010
• The spider awards - 4th gallery: Category still life: Honorable Mention, Beverley Hills 2009
• Kodak Gold Award, Los Angeles, 2009
• Kodak Gold Award, Los Angeles, 2006
• Kodak Gold Award, Los Angeles, 2005
• European Colorart Gold Master, 2004
• Hasselblad Open, Hasselblad FORUM, Göteborg, 1998

Exhibitions

• 2017: artSalzburg, Austria; SCOPE Basel, Switzerland; Würth Museum, Rorschach, Switzerland; P/Art Gallery, Ibiza, Spain;
• 2014: Visions of the Ludwig Collection, group exhibition, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Brazil;
• 2013: B12 Gallery, Ibiza, Spain; Club Diario de Ibiza, Spain; Postgaragen, Munich, Germany; art Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
• 2012: art Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany; Sybille Mang Gallery, Lindau, Germany; HORIZONTE fotofestival, Zingst, Germany
• 2011: Sybille Mang Gallery, Lindau, Germany
• 2009: SES SALINAS, Ibiza, Spain
• 2003: J. Javits Center, New York, USA
• 2002: Cultural Foundation, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
• 2001: Rencontres d’Arles Café Van Gogh, Arles, France; Erotica Vienna, Austria;
• 2000: Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
• 1999: Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
• 1997: Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France;
• 1996: Lillehammer, Norway; Can Blau, Ibiza, Spain; Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
• 1995: Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France; Gallery Es Moli, Ibiza, Spain
• 1994: Moulin Rouge Paris, France;
• 1993: World Trade Center, Sharjah, U.A.E.
• 1991: Sharjah, Dubai, U.A.E.; Arles, France
• 1990: Photokina, Cologne, Germany
• 1989: Sharjah, Dubai, U.A.E.
• 1988: Photokina, Cologne, Germany
• 1987: Dubai, U.A.E.
• 1985: Photokina, Cologne, Germany; Sharjah, U.A.E.; community-exhibition of CAP-Europa, Paris;
• 1984: Photokina, Cologne, Germany

Book

Branz, Werner (2007). Obsession (1 ed.). ISBN 978-3-200-00860-1. Retrieved 10 February 2018. Search this book on

Publications

Magazines

• In: International Color Awards Journal: Collection No.7, Beverly Hills, 2017
• In: der photograph: Verlag für photographische Literatur A. Barylli, Edition 06 2014, Wien 2014
• In: International Color Awards Journal: Collection No.3 , Beverly Hills, 2014
• In: der photograph: Verlag für photographische Literatur A. Barylli, Wien 2012
• In: der photograph: Verlag für photographische Literatur A. Barylli, Wien 2011
• In: Black & White Spider Awards Journal: Edition 1, Beverly Hills, 2011

Books

• In: "Verknüpfungen: Chaos und Ordnung inspirieren künstlerische Fotografie und Literatur", Springer Basel AG, 1992,
• In: Zeit-Zeugen Fotografie in Österreich seit 1945

Weblinks

• Official Site

References

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