Otto Heinrich Steinert

Place: Saarbrücken

Born: 1915

Death: 1978

Biography:

Otto Steinert was a German photographer born in Saarbrücken, Germany in 1915. He was a medical doctor by profession and was self-taught in photography. After World War II, he initially worked for the State School for Art and Craft in Saarbrücken. He was the founder of the Fotoform photography group. From 1959, he taught at the Folkwang Hochschule design school in Essen, where he later died in 1978. His archive is part of the photographic collection of the Museum Folkwang, Essen.