Reinhart Wolf: Vita
- 1 August 1930: born in Berlin
- 1950/51: Scholarship at Wabash College, Crawfordsville; encounter with photographs by Irving Penn, Edward Weston, and Yousuf Karsh
- Attended the A. Schwoerer photography school in Hamburg and subsequently spent a year in Paris, where he made portraits of painters and sculptors such as Fernand Léger, Hans Arp and Max Ernst in their studios
- 1954: Appointment as a member of the GDL (Gesellschaft Deutscher Lichtbildner)
- 1956: Master's degree at the Bavarian State College for Photography, Munich
- 1956: Founding of own studio with own film company in Hamburg
- From 1956: Start of a collaboration with Germany's first partner agency "Team" ( Die kleine Sünde Praline , 1966)
- Development of a broad spectrum in the pioneering era of advertising; car photography for Daimler Benz and Volkswagen as well as product photography for Henkel and Reemtsma and for the German Federal Railway
- 1969: Construction of a studio building according to his own designs
- 1969: various commissioned works for the magazines stern (including in the section Stern-Küche) and GEO
- 1969: Photographs of the brick building of the Schröderstift in Hamburg; beginning of freelance work as an architectural photographer
- from 1970: Advertising work for Tchibo and König Pilsener
- 1975/76: Appointed President of the Art Directors Club (founding member)
- 1976: Publication of own architectural images in Camera
- 1977: Invitation by the Polaroid Corporation to America; creation of the series Gesichter von Gebäuden
- 1978/79: the series New York is published in the American GEO and in stern
- 1979: Trip to Japan
- 1981/82: the series Burgen in Spanien was commissioned by stern
- 1982: Recordings of the Ballet Festival Weeks at the Hamburg State Opera under the direction of John Neumeier
- 1984: Trip to China
- 1986: another trip to Japan
- Teaching in Hamburg at the Art Academy and Meisterschule für Mode
- November 10, 1988: died in Hamburg
