Peter Thomann is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

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Photograph

A photograph is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of...

er who worked as a staff photographer for Stern magazine

Stern (magazine)

Stern is a weekly news magazine published in Germany. It was founded in 1948 by Henri Nannen, and is currently published by Gruner + Jahr, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann. In the first quarter of 2006, its print run was 1.019 million copies and it reached 7.84 million readers according to...

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Photography

His photograph "The Soul of a Horse

The Soul of a Horse

The Soul of a Horse was a 1963 photo taken by the German photojournalist and Stern magazine staffer, Peter Thomann which won countless praise all over the world and many awards. In the mid-1970s "The Kentucky Horse Park" near Lexington opened its doors to the public, using a logo based on the...

" won the 1st prize WORLD PRESS PHOTO AWARD 1963 and in 1996 entered the Guiness Book of Records as the most frequently copied fotograph. Because it was used as the logo for the Kentucky Horse Park

Kentucky Horse Park

Kentucky Horse Park is a working horse farm and an educational theme park opened in 1978 in Lexington, Kentucky. It is located off Kentucky State Highway 1973 and Interstate 75 in northern Fayette County in the United States...

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.