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ID: 500124356 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500124356			Record Type: Person

Peterhans, Walter (German photographer and teacher, 1897-1960, active in United States)

Note: From 1925 to 1926, Walter Peterhans studied photographic reproduction techniques at the Leipzig's State Academy of Printing and Graphic Art and earned a master's degree in photography at Weimar in 1926. Peterhans established and directed the department of photography at the Dessau Bauhaus and at Mies van der Rohe's Bauhaus Institute in Berlin from 1929 to 1933. In 1938, Peterhans abandoned photography and emigrated to the United States. From 1938 until his death in 1960, Peterhans taught art history and visual awareness courses as a professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Born 12 June 1897; died 12 April 1960. From 1927 to 1929, Peterhans operated a freelance photographic studio specializing in industrial and portrait photography in Berlin, Germany. From 1929 to 1932, Peterhans was the head of the Photography Department at the Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany. From 1932 to 1933, he was the head of the Photography Department at the private Bauhaus school in Berlin opened by Mies van der Rohe. From 1935 to 1938, Peterhans worked as a freelance industrial and commercial photographer in Berlin, Germany. In 1938, Peterhans stopped practising photography. Peterhans emigrated to the United States in 1938 and worked as a professor of Visual Training, Analysis and History of Art at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, until his death in 1960. German-born photographer and teacher of design.

Names:
	Peterhans, Walter (preferred,V,index,Dutch-P,NA)
	Walter Peterhans (V,display)
	Peterhans, Walter A. (V)
	Walter A. Peterhans (U)

Nationalities:
	American (preferred)
	German

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	photographer
	art historian
	professor
	teacher

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Frankfurt an der Oder (Brandenburg, Germany) (inhabited place) Died: Stetten (Aargau, Switzerland) (inhabited place)

Events:

	active:		1927 - 1929 Berlin state (Germany) (state)
	active:		1929 - 1932 Dessau (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany) (inhabited place)
	active:		1932 - 1938 Berlin state (Germany) (state)
	active:		1938 - 1960 Chicago (Cook county, Illinois, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

professor at (person to institution) ....	Bauhaus
................................................................	(German art school, 1919-1933) [500125058]

teacher of ....	Arndt, Gertrud
..................	(German photographer, weaver, 1903-2000) [500037052]

teacher of ....	Auerbach, Ellen
..................	(American photographer born in Germany, 1906-2004) [500009708]

teacher of ....	Blühova, Irena
..................	(Slovak photographer, 1904-1991) [500572041]

teacher of ....	Coppola, Horacio from 1932 to 1933
..................	(Argentine photographer, 1906-2012) [500037087]

teacher of ....	Feist, Werner David from 1928 to 1929
..................	(Canadian and German photographer and designer, born 1909) [500037090]

teacher of ....	Funkat, Walter
..................	(German photographer, art administrator, and graphic designer, 1906-2006) [500030786]

teacher of ....	Guermonprez, Paul
..................	(Belgian photographer, 1908-1944) [500536653]

teacher of ....	Kranz, Kurt
..................	(German painter and printmaker, 1910-1997) [500073410]

teacher of ....	Rose, Hajo
..................	(German photographer, 1910-1989) [500099403]

teacher of ....	Stern, Grete
..................	(German photographer and designer, 1904-1999, active in Argentina) [500032972]

List/Hierarchical Position:

....

Persons, Artists

........

Peterhans, Walter (I)

Biographies:

(German photographer and teacher, 1897-1960, active in United States) ..... [VP Preferred]
(German-born photographer and teacher of design) ..... [AVERY]
(German photographer, 1897-1960) ..... [BHA]
(American and German photographer, professor and art historian; born Frankfurt (Germany), 1897; died Stetten (West Germany, now Germany), 1960) ..... [CCA]
(American (b. Germany), 1897-1960) ..... [JPGM]
(German photographer, contemporary) ..... [AVERY]
(American artist, born Germany. 1897-1960) ..... [MoMA]
(German photographer, 1897-1960) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

Peterhans, Walter ........	[AVERY Preferred, BHA Preferred, CCA Preferred, JPGM Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred]
....................................	Avery Authority files (1963-)
....................................	Getty Museum, Authority file (2003-)
....................................	Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
....................................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 376629

Peterhans, Walter A. ........	[CCA, MoMA, VP]
.........................................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
.........................................	Canadian Centre for Architecture database
.........................................	Eskind and Drake, Index to American Photographic Collections (1990)

Walter A. Peterhans ........	[MoMA Preferred]
.......................................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)

Walter Peterhans ........	[CCA, VP]
..................................	Canadian Centre for Architecture database
..................................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules


Note:
English	..........	[AVERY, CCA, VP]
	..........	Eskind and Drake, Index to American Photographic Collections (1990) 383
	..........	Naylor, Contemporary Photographers (1988)
	..........	RLIN bks file: FLUGADJ2476-B; Reflections:the journal of the School of Architecture. Univ. of Ill. at Urbana-Champaign

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