Ludwig Bernauer

Ludwig Bernauer (born April 3, 1922 in Kriens ; † March 31, 2004 in Bottmingen ) was a Swiss photographer .

Life

Bernauer was born in 1922 in Kriens, where he also grew up. He was the son of the technical draftsman Otto Alois Arnold and his wife Rosalia, née Vonmatt.

Bernauer began his training as a specialist photographer at the Lucerne School of Applied Arts in 1938, which he completed with distinction. He then worked in various locations before settling in the Basel area in 1946. In 1959 his first illustrated book about Scotland was published . He found most of the motifs in the border region of Basel , the Jura and Alsace . Bernauer worked from 1961 as a freelance photographer for the national newspaper and the Basler Zeitung . He also gained fame through his exhibitions and his book publications. In 1969 he moved to Bottmingen with his family. He ended his photographic career in 1990 and continued to draw.

He usually wore a beret and preferred classic black and white photography to other imaging techniques. The subject of his pictures was often the " patina " of the chosen motifs. However, the positive overall impression of his works predominates. In 1990 he received the Nitoba Prize for his photographic work and in the same year the Federal Nature Conservation Prize for Baselland Nature Conservation for his commitment to landscape protection.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ludwig Bernauer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ludwig Bernauer in the personal dictionary of the canton of Basel-Landschaft