Peter Cornelius (photographer)

Peter Cornelius (born June 6, 1913 in Kiel ; † September 5, 1970 ibid) was a German photographer and photojournalist .

After the Second World War , he began his career in his hometown of Kiel through reporting, landscape and sailing photography. From the mid-1950s, he became one of the first professional photographers in Germany to specialize in the field of color photography . In 1960 he became known to a larger audience for the first time through the special exhibition Magic of Color during the Photokina in Cologne . From 1963 to 1968 he worked as a guest lecturer at the Ulm School of Design . His best-known work is the colored Paris book .

In 1972 he was posthumously awarded the City of Kiel's Culture Prize.

Publications

• War Christmas 1942. A Schleswig-Holstein infantry division in the east . Riga, Deutsche Verlags- und Druckerei-Ges. in Ostland, 1942.
• Colored Paris. Econ, Dusseldorf 1961. Text of Jacques Prevert .
  • Couleur de Paris. Edita, Lausanne 1961 (French).
  • Paris in Color. Thames & Hudson, London 1962 (English).
  • Paris i färg. Nordisk Rotogravyr, Stockholm 1962 (Swedish).
• Magic of color photography. Econ, Düsseldorf 1961.
• Magic de la photo en color . Edita, Lausanne 1961 (French)
• Magic with the color camera . Thames & Hudson, London 1962 (English)
• Cologne photographed in color. Traffic Office of the City of Cologne, Cologne 1965. Photographs by Cornelius, Horst H. Baumann and Chargesheimer .
• Colorful keel. Mühlau, Kiel 1962.
• Colored keel. Press Office of the City of Kiel, Kiel 1967.
• Olympia of the sailors Kiel '72. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 1971.
• Fascination with the sailing calendar. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 1967–1971.

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Cornelius in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website about Peter Cornelius with photo galleries and biography
• Kiel commemorates Peter Cornelius, the pioneer of color photography , with two exhibitions , press release of June 14, 2012