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Trained in graphic design and photography at the Zürich School of Arts and Crafts, Bischof adhered early to the style of New Objectivity, and an interest in.

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Werner Bischof was born in Switzerland in 1916. He studied photography with Hans Finsler in his native Zurich at the School for Arts and Crafts, then opened a photography and advertising studio. In 1942, he became a freelancer for Du magazine, which published his first major photo essays in 1943. Bischof received international recognition after the publication of his 1945 reportage on the devastation caused by the Second World War.

In the years that followed, Bischof traveled in Italy and Greece for Swiss Relief, an organization dedicated to post-war reconstruction. In 1948, he photographed the Winter Olympics in St. Moritz for Life magazine. After trips to Eastern Europe, Finland, Sweden and Denmark, he worked for Picture Post, The Observer, Illustrated, and Epoca. He was the first photographer to join Magnum as one of the founding members in 1949.

Disliking the “superficiality and sensationalism” of the magazine business, he devoted much of his working life to looking for order and tranquility in traditional culture, something that did not endear him to picture edi

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Werner Bischof was one of the most important photographers of the 20^thcentury. Anyone who looks at his oeuvre will realize that it is astonishing in many respects. In the only nine years that he had available for his journalistic work from 1945 to 1954, he created a huge body of outstanding photographs. He traveled halfway around the world, in times when a long-haul flight was still an adventure trip with many stopovers. The diversity of his motifs and subjects is just as impressive as the artistic quality. Among all the suffering and misery he has seen and photographed, his gaze has always found signs of hope and beauty. He devoted himself to both aspects of life thoughtfully, sensitively and with an unerring sense for the right moment. Even as a journalist, he always remained an artist.

Werner Bischof did not actually want to become a photographer, but a painter. It was a coincidence that brought him to work with the camera, because all the places in the graphic arts class at the School of Applied Arts in Zurich were already taken when he began his training ther

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Werner Bischof

Bischof was born in Zürich, Switzerland. When he was six years old, the family moved to Waldshut, Germany, where he subsequently went to school. In 1932, having abandoned studies to become a teacher, he enrolled at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zürich, where he graduated cum laude in 1936.

From 1939 on, he worked as an independent photographer for various magazines, in particular, du, based in Zürich. He travelled extensively from 1945 to 1949 through nearly all European countries from France to Romania and from Norway to Greece. His works on the devastation in post-war Europe established him as one of the foremost photojournalists of his time.

He was associated into Magnum Photos in 1948 and became a full member in 1949. At that time Magnum was composed of just five other photographers, its founders Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, David Seymour, and Ernst Haas.

The focus of much of Bischof's post-war humanist photography was showing the poverty and despair around him in Europe, tempered with his desire to travel the world, conveying the beauty of