Walter Pfeiffer

Walter Pfeiffer (born in Beggingen^[1] in 1946) is a Swiss artist.

Life and career

Walter Pfeiffer was born in Beggingen (Switzerland), in 1946 and has been producing since the early 1970s. His portraits of friends, lovers and the youth surrounding him in cities such as

His first book of photographs, Walter Pfeiffer: 1970-1980, was published in 1980, followed a few years later by The eyes, the thoughts, ceaselessly wandering (Nachbar der Welt, 1986), but raised little attention. His work would only garner an international audience after the publication of Welcome Aboard, Photographs 1980-2000, in 2001. Since then, three new books have followed, released by international publishing houses such as Hatje Cantz and Steidl, including Night and Day (Hatje Cantz, 2007), Walter Pfeiffer: In Love with Beauty (Steidl, 2009) and Cherchez la femme!, also in 2009.

Exhibitions

• Walter Pfeiffer: 1970-1980 (Elke Betzel, 1980).
• The eyes, the thoughts, ceaselessly wandering (Nachbar der Welt, 1986).
• Welcome Aboard, Photographs 1980-2000 (Edition Patrick Frey/Scab, 2001).
• Night and Day (Hatje Cantz, 2007).
• Walter Pfeiffer: In Love with Beauty (Steidl, 2009).
• Cherchez la femme! (2009).

References

External links

• Publications by and about Walter Pfeiffer in the catalogue Helveticat of the Swiss National Library
• Official website
• Article and interview on Interview Magazine
• Article on Artforum International
• Collaborator page on i-D magazine Archived 2007-10-11 at the Wayback Machine
• Walter Pfeiffer´s 2009 photoshoot with Magdalena Frackowiak Archived 2010-02-01 at the Wayback Machine
• Walter Pfeiffer´s Portfolio at Art + Commerce