Rosmarie Pierer

1918 — 2012

Rosmarie Pierer was a German photographer and graphic designer and was long regarded as a pioneer of the Hamburg media scene. In 1949, she founded the Pierer Studio in the Hanseatic city with a photographic focus on industrial, theatre and travel photography.

Pierer has worked for the Thalia Theatre and for many different companies, including Beiersdorf, Airbus, Philips, the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and Maico. For some years now, she has been devoting herself to portrait photography again, among others with the architect Hadi Teherani and former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.