Peter gasser biography
- Born at home in Napa in 1905, Pete Gasser was one of six children of Swiss immigrants Henry Gasser and Mary Crotta, who had come to the United States in the.
- Peter Gasser is a Medical doctor (MD) born in 1960, married, with three children.
- Peter GASSER.
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EXIBITIONS
1984 Gallery zur Stockeregg, Zürich, Switzerland
ART, Basel, Switzerland
Photoforum Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland
1985 Light Gallery, Seattle, USA
ART Basel, Switzerland
Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
Gallery zur Stockeregg, Zürich, Switzerland
1986 Equivalent Gallery, Seattle, USA
Gallery Ursula Ehrhardt, Nürnberg, Germany
1987 Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, USA
Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
Gallery zur Stockeregg, Zürich, Switzerland
1988 Wach Gallery, Avon Lake, Ohio, USA
Lichtbild Gallery, Ingolstadt, Germany
Photoforum Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland
1989 Gallery zur Stockergegg, Zürich, Switzerland
Fotoforum Kappeln, Germany
Fotoforum Bremen, Germany
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Every now and then, I'm confronted with photographic work of such superlative quality that my jaw literally drops. Peter Gasser's photography is such work.
Peter Gasser is a Swiss photographer, and his biography as penned by Professor Helmut Gernsheim on his website reveals his affinity for precision work. While Professor Gernsheim commends Gasser's landscape work, comparing it to that of Ansel Adams, Brett Weston and Paul Caponigro, it is his ethno-photography that left me speechless.
Peter Gasser has exhibited his work in European and United States galleries, and is the recipient of a number of awards including the official recognition from the Swiss Confederation. His photographs are at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Art institute of Chicago, International Museum of Photography, Rochester; Center for Creative Photography, Arizona and others.
While all of his galleries are collectors' items, it's his images of the African
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History
How two people helped bring the future to the Napa Valley
Born at home in Napa in 1905, Pete Gasser was one of six children of Swiss immigrants Henry Gasser and Mary Crotta, who had come to the United States in the 1880’s and 90’s. Like most of their neighbors, the Gassers were farmers, and for many years his father was the head dairyman at Napa State Hospital. At their ranch in Coombsville, the family had their own prune orchard, raised turkeys and chickens, and operated a dairy with goats and cows. The Gasser dairy was known for neatness and modern methods of operation, and working in it throughout his childhood taught the young Peter plenty about hard work. In high school, he was annoyed when other boys teased him about his rustic clothes, and left after ninth grade, but he soon went on to earn a banking certificate in San Francisco. He began working for the Bank of Italy (which was to become the Bank of America) in 1925.
Pete’s new job brought him into contact with bankers, local business owners, and other men of influence and power. It also allowed him to dre
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