Walter Peterhans

His students there included Ellen Auerbach, Hannes Neuner, Naftali Avnon, Ivana Tomljenović-Meller, Ricarda Schwerin, Grete Stern and Elsa Thiemann. Peterhans immigrated to Chicago in 1938 to teach the 'visual training' course to architecture students at Illinois Institute of Technology under the direction of Mies van der Rohe. The course consisted of ten units to be completed over four semesters. In 1953, Peterhans was part of the founding core faculty at the Ulm School of Design (Hochschule für Gestaltung, 1953–1968) in Germany. In the United States he was briefly married to American architect Gertrude Lempp Kerbis before he married Brigitte Schlaich, also an architect, in 1957. He died of an unexpected heart attack at the house of his in-laws in Stetten im Remstal, near Stuttgart, and is buried there. The Museum Folkwang in Essen holds the copyright to Peterhans's work.

The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is photography. Employment is recorded with Bauhaus, Armour Institute and Illinois Institute of Technology. Work by Walter Peterhans is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, Tate, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and J. Paul Getty Museum.

• Name — Walter Peterhans • Born — 12 June 1897 • Birthplace — Frankfurt am Main • Died — 12 April 1960 • Place of death — Stetten im Remstal • Education — *TU Dresden • Technische Hochschule München • University of Göttingen • Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig • Occupation — Photographer; academic • Organization — *Bauhaus • Reimann School, Berlin • Illinois Institute of Technology • Ulm School of Design • Style — Neues Sehen • Spouse — *Gertrude Lempp Kerbis • Brigitte Schlaich (m.1957)