Nikolaus Walter (photographer)

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Nikolaus Walter (born April 3, 1945 in Rankweil ) is an Austrian photographer.

Life

Nikolaus Walter was born in Rankweil as the son of art student Liebgart Walter. His father was killed in October 1944 near Cluj-Napoca , Romania. He then lived in Altenstadt and Feldkirch. From 1964 to 1967 he attended the Higher Federal Graphical Training and Research Institute in Vienna . He has a daughter.

Nikolaus Walter lives and works in Feldkirch.

Awards

photographer

After a trip to Manchester and Dublin , Nikolaus Walter got a job in 1968 with Wallace Heaton , photo dealer in London , in the repair and service department. In 1969 he became a postcard photographer at Francis Frith & Co. in Reigate . During a trip to the USA in 1970 he worked for Publishers Weekly in New York. From 1971 to 1972 stays in New Zealand and Toronto and worked on the Toronto Cowboy project . 1973 worked for the textile printing company Rueff in Muntlix . In 1974 he met Otto Breicha for the first time. In 1974 Walter started with press photography for the city of Bregenz and worked from 1977 to 2002 on the Große Walsertal . 1977 work for the Lebenshilfe Vorarlberg . From 1982 to 2000 work for the Schubertiade Vorarlberg . 1983 trips to the French Atlantic coast and Spain. From 1984 to 1986 occupation with working environments in factories in Tyrol and Vorarlberg. From 1984 and 1999 works for the Bregenz Festival . 1986 trip to Nicaragua, 1987 to Portugal. From 1987 to 2006 photography for the Vorarlberg Chamber of Labor and for the Institute for Social Services. In 1990 he accompanied aid transports to Transylvania in Romania. 1990 and 2003 work for Caritas Vorarlberg . 1996 trip to Brazil and 1997 trip to Calcutta and the Sundarbans in India and accompanying aid deliveries to Kostjukowka in Belarus . From 1999 to 2002 work for the theater for Vorarlberg . 1999 trip to South India.

Publications

literature

  • Short biography and sources, pp. 322–323. In: Susanne Fink, Cornelia Rothmund: Fine arts in Vorarlberg. 1945-2005. Biographical lexicon. Vorarlberger Landesmuseum, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bucher-Verlag, Hohenems 2006, ISBN 978-3-902525-36-9 .
  • Nicholas Walter. Photographs 1967-2004. Margit Zuckriegl: Distance and closeness - paraliptic figurations in the work of Nikolaus Walter. Gerhard Glüher: On the move in life. Exhibition at Palais Liechtenstein Feldkirch 2006, Hatje Cantz Verlag 2006, ISBN 3-7757-1970-9 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walser women farmers at Haiba (hay) on the steep slope, see picture description derstandard.at, June 18, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Walter, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian photographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Rankweil