The first photographer to be awarded the Turner Prize, and winner of several other awards including the Hasselblad award, Wolfgang Tillmans started out as a teenager in Germany where he was influenced by the work of Andy Warhol.
Tillmans was the first photographer  and also the first non-British person  to be awarded the Tate annual Turner Prize. He has also been awarded the Hasselblad Award, the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition's Charles Wollaston Award, The Culture Prize of the German Society for Photography, and is an Academician of the Royal Academy of Arts London. At the age of 14 to 16, visits to museums in Dusseldorf 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. 
