Artist Bio: Philipp Scholz Rittermann was born in 1955 in Lima, Perú, and moved to Germany in 1969. In the mid seventies he co-founded a photography gallery and taught photography, emigrating to the United States in 1982. His photographs are included in more than 100 public, private, and corporate collections, from The Museum of Modern Art, New York to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris. A mid-career survey of Rittermann’s work was held at the Museum of Photographic Arts San Diego, and Emperor’s River was presented at MCASD. Rittermann lives and works in San Diego.
