- From this followed further commissions forLifeas
well as forFortune, Picture Post, Weekly Illustrated, The
Observer, Epoca, Paris Match,etc. Founding member of
Magnum Photos, 1949. Married Rosellina Mandel, 1949;
two sons, Marc, 1950 and Daniel, 1954. A co-founder of
the Kollegiums Schweizerischen Photographen (Commit-
tee of Swiss Photographers), 1951. Photo reports from
Europe, The Middle East, and America. Died in a car
accident in the Peruvian Andes, the region of Trujillo,
May 16, 1954.
Individual Exhibitions
1953 Menschen im Fernen Osten; Galerie St. Annahof, Zur-
ich, Switzerland
1955 Japan; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1956 Werner Bischof, Retrospektive; Kunstgewerbeschule
Zurich, Switzerland
1957 Retrospektive Werner Bischof; Kunstgewerbemuseum
Zurich, Switzerland
1960 Werner Bischof;Muse ́edesArtsDe ́coratifs, Paris, France
1966 Werner Bischof; Galerie Form, Zurich, Switzerland
1967 Werner Bischof; Muse ́e des Arts De ́coratifs, Paris,
France
1968 Werner Bischof; IBM Gallery, New York, New York
1984 Werner Bischof; Galerie Municipale du Chaˆ teau
d’Eau, Toulouse, France
1986 Werner Bischof; Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland, and
traveling
1988 Werner Bischof; Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid,
Spain
1989 Werner Bischof; Photoforum Pasquart, Biel, Switzer-
land
1990 Werner Bischof; International Center of Photography,
New York, New York
1994 Werner Bischof (1916–1954); New Zealand Centre of
Photography, New Zealand
1998 Werner Bischof: Nach dem Krieg; Galerie Mangisch,
Zurich, Switzerland
2001 The Compassionate Lens—The Photographs of Werner
Bischof 1945–1954; Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connec-
ticut
2004 Werner Bischof—Photographs 1932–1954; The Min-
neapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MinnesotaWerner Bischof, Hong-Kong, 1952.
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