Alberto Schommer
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August 9, 1928
Alberto Schommer | |
|---|---|
| Born | Alberto Schommer García August 9, 1928 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain |
| Died | September 10, 2015 (aged 87) San Sebastián, Spain |
| Occupation | Photographer |
| Awards | Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (2008), National Prize of Photography (2013) |
Alberto Schommer García (9 August 1928 – 10 September 2015) was a Spanish photographer.
Alberto Schommer was born in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. He was introduced to the skill of photography from his father, a photographer from Vitoria who immigrated from Germany, Alberto Schommer Koch,[1] where he opened a studio during the 1940s. Later, Schommer was academically trained in the field of this art in the German city of Cologne and Paris. The Spanish government awarded him the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts in 2008 and the National Prize of Photography in 2013. In 1996 he became a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
In recognition of his career as a photographer and having become a person of prestige in the photographic field, his hometown (Vitoria) has a street named in his honor in the district of Adurza.
He died on September 10, 2015, in San Sebastián, at 87 years of age due to respiratory problems caused by cancer.[2]
