Burkhard Winsmann-Steins

Burkhard Winsmann-Steins (* 1948 ; born Burkhard Winsmann ) is a German animal and hunting photographer .

Live and act

In his youth, Burkhard Winsmann went on photo stalking with an Agfa-Clack . This passion - combined with his passion as a hunter - he later turned into a profession. Since the 1960s he has published his photos in hunting magazines , especially deer and dog , for which he also works as an author. His pictures of wild animals are all taken in the wild and are not posed. In addition, he repeatedly captures scenes from hunting and is a well-known nature and landscape photographer. Winsmann-Steins has also published several books with his photographs, including Mit den Augen des Jäger (2001), which contains a selection of his most beautiful pictures. His recordings of roebucks in particular are always admired. He put together the most successful of these in 2007 for Kapitale Böcke in Traumrevieren , an illustrated book that he himself calls his life's work.

In 1992, together with the forest scientist Andreas Gautschi, he published the magnificent volume Rominten yesterday and today about the famous “ Rominter Heide ” hunting area , which had been published three times by 1999. Together with László Bozóki he developed the published 2003 European trophy catalog , the information on the 182 kapitalsten European elk , 9,300 red deer , 2,400 fallow deer , 10,300 roe deer, 1,000 chamois , 1,200 mouflons and 3,400 boars contains, listed with point indication Erlegungsort and slayer.

Since 2002, Paul Parey Zeitschriftenverlag has published an annual “ Experienced Nature” calendar exclusively with photos by Burkhard Winsmann-Steins.

Winsmann-Steins is considered one of the best wildlife photographers in the world. Several of his photos were awarded prizes by the International Council for the Conservation of Game and Hunting (Conseil International de la Chasse et de la Conservation du gibier, CIC). The hunting painter Rien Poortvliet once described him as his "brother in depicting animals".

Burkhard Winsmann-Steins lives in Hoyershausen .

Works

• Poetry of the hunt. Wildlife and nature in the course of the year. A photo album , Hamburg 1982 ( ISBN 3-570-05872-7 )
• together with Andreas Gautschi : Rominten yesterday and today , Bothel 1992 (3rd edition, Suderburg 1999, ISBN 3-927848-06-9 )
• With the eyes of the hunter. The most beautiful pictures of the great hunting photographer , volume with classic hunting stories , Stuttgart 2001 ( ISBN 3-440-09020-5 )
• together with László Bozóki: European trophy catalog - Catalog des trophèes europèens - Európai trófeakatalógus) , Budapest 2003 ( ISBN 963-9318-52-3 )
• together with Gert G. von Harling : Captivating moments of the hunt. Scenes from the driven hunt , Stuttgart 2004 ( ISBN 3-440-09694-7 )
• Capital bucks in dream areas , Stuttgart 2007 ( ISBN 978-3-440-10684-6 or ISBN 3-440-10684-5 )

In addition, pictures by Burkhard Winsmann-Steins are also used in numerous other hunting books.

Web links

• Literature by and about Burkhard Winsmann-Steins in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} blurb to With the eyes of the hunter. The most beautiful pictures of the great hunting photographer . Franckh- Kosmos, Stuttgart 2001
2. ↑ Information from Kosmos-Verlag  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (pdf; accessed on January 4, 2008)  
3. ↑ Horst Reetz in the preface to With the eyes of the hunter. The most beautiful pictures of the great hunting photographer . Franckh- Kosmos, Stuttgart 2001, p. 4