Walter Peterhans

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Walter Peterhans (1897 - 1960) was a German photographer best known as a teacher of photography at the Bauhaus from 1929 through 1933, and his subsequent immigration to Chicago in 1938 to teach the 'visual training' course at Illinois Institute of Technology under the direction of Mies van der Rohe.

Peterhans' own work in the 1930s was close-up, still-life silver gelatin prints of everyday objects, and he came to the Bauhaus at the invitation of Hannes Meyer. In America he was briefly married to American architect Gertrude Lempp Kerbis.