Hans Peter Klauser

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Hans Peter Klauser (born July 31, 1910 in Herisau ; † January 13, 1989 in Zurich ) was a Swiss photographer .

life and work

Hans Peter Klauser studied mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, mathematics and physics at the ETH Zurich from 1930 to 1935, with photography as an optional subject, until an illness (paralysis, visual impairment) forced him to drop out. He turned to photography and from 1936 to 1938 completed an apprenticeship with Gotthard Schuh , who described him as “the only fertile offspring in my own work”.

As a freelance photographer, Klauser published photo reports in Zürcher Illustrierte , Tat , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Heim und Leben , Sie und Er and Schweizer Spiegel from 1939 to 1947 . From 1942 to 1947 he ran his own studio. Between 1947 and 1952 he worked as a works photographer at the machine tool factory Oerlikon-Bührle . In 1953 he reopened his own studio and worked various times for Pro Infirmis and Pro Senectute .

Klausner developed the Orthoclin method for large-format reproductions, which he patented in 1957. He was married and had four children. His sister Maja Heller Schucan (née Maja Klauser) was a sculptor, draftsman and author.

Publications

  • The Appenzellerland. The national heritage of Switzerland. 5. Basel 1945.
  • with Jakob Tuggener : From Olten-Aarburg to Aare-Ticino. Olten 1945.
  • A look at Israel. Zurich 1973.
  • How I became that photographer. Zurich 1989.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • Telling of amazement: Hans Peter Klauser - Photographs 1933 to 1973. Kunsthaus Zürich 1999/2000.

literature

  • Telling of amazement: Hans Peter Klauser: Photographs 1933-1973. Zurich 1999.
  • Hans Peter Klauser or Die Kraft der Stille: An addendum to the Swiss photo history by Peter Pfrunder. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, October 30, 1999, p. 115.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cit. after Hans Peter Klauser or Die Kraft der Stille: An addendum to the Swiss photo history by Peter Pfrunder. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 30, 1999, p. 115.
personal data
SURNAME Klauser, Hans Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss photographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Herisau
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1989
Place of death Zurich