Peter Thomann (born 1940) is a German photographer who worked as a staff photographer for ''Stern'' magazine.

Photography

His photograph " The Soul of a Horse" won the 1st prize WORLD PRESS PHOTO AWARD 1963 and in 1996 entered the Guinness Book of Records as the most frequently copied photograph. Because it was used as the logo for the

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and appeared on Kentucky's license plates he threatened to sue in the late 1990s.

Exhibitions

International Museum of the Horse in Lexington, KY, USA, Museum Men and Nature, Munich, Germany, Museum of Natural History, Berlin, Germany, Westfalian Horse Museum, Muenster, Germany.

Awards and nominations

Among other awards he won two other World Press Photo Awards in 1964 and 1982.

References

1940 births Living people 20th-century German photographers {{Germany-photographer-stub