Good Friday Magic (Karfreitagszauber)
1929 · Gelatin silver print
Image: 21.5 × 33.7 cm (8 1/2 × 13 5/16 in.); Paper: 27.9 × 35.3 cm (11 × 13 15/16 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Walter Peterhans
?–1960
PhotographyPhotographyBauhaus
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8
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- • Bauhaus
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Walter Peterhans was a German photographer best known as a teacher and course leader of photography at the Bauhaus from 1929 until 1933, and at the Reimann School in Berlin under Hugo Häring.
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