Sports photographer Walter Scheiwiller dead at 96
Zurich sports photographer Walter Scheiwiller died last Friday at the age of 96. This information comes from an obituary published in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung on Wednesday.
Born in Germany in 1922, Scheiwiller made a name for himself as an independent photographer after his apprenticeship as a photographer in St. Gallen and a stint at the Photopress Zurich photo agency (1942-1945). A long-time track and field athlete and footballer, he is considered a pioneer of sports photography. At the Swiss Sports Museum in Münchenstein, the pearls of his work are on display in the Scheiwiller archive guarded. The collection comprises 17,000 pictures - from the great war to the eighties. Sports photos that have been published in domestic and foreign newspapers and represent the history of Swiss sports. (SDA)
