Joseph Gallus Rittenberg (1948)

Joseph Gallus Rittenberg

Joseph Gallus Rittenberg is an Austrian photographer, stage designer and painter. Rittenberg grew up in Gallneukirchen and has lived in Munich since 1977. His photographs have been shown at exhibitions in Berlin, Paris, Vienna and New York, among others, and have also been published in magazines (e.g. Süddeutsche, Die Zeit and Der Spiegel) since the 1980s. His work focuses on portraits. His photographs of the writers Thomas Bernhard and Werner Schwab, Friederike Mayröcker and Ernst Jandl became well known.