Georg Tappeiner

Nature and portrait photography sparked Tappeiner’s enthusiasm early on. After a successful twenty-year career in advertising photography, among others in London and Milan, he has dedicated himself entirely to nature and landscape photography since 2010.

His aerial photographs of the Dolomites, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2009, were the focus of one of the most extensive cover stories ever published by National Geographic Germany and led to the internationally shown exhibition Dolomites – The Heart of Stone of the Earth. Since 2024, his new exhibition on the UNESCO World Heritage Prosecco Hills has been touring.

His photographs appear in illustrated books, for example in collaboration with the Messner Mountain Museums or the Italian art publisher Marsilio Arte.

Georg Tappeiner (b. 1964) lives in Merano in his homeland South Tyrol. His aim is to reveal the beauty and fragility of landscapes through both monumental and intimate visual worlds

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Georg Tappeiner started out as a landscape and portrait photographer.

In 1985, at the age of 21, he moved to London, UK, and worked his way from assistant to photographer. He developed his specialization in commercial car photography.

After 10 years in London, he moved to Milan, Italy where, between 1995 and 2010, he worked for many of the leading advertising agencies across Europe The focus was still on advertising photography in the automotive industry.

At the same time he began to compensate with landscape photography and since 2006 also aerial photography. The focus was on the Dolomites, which were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2009.

In 2010 Georg Tappeiner made the conscious decision to concentrate fully on landscape photography. In February 2010, National Geographic Germany published a cover story with his photos of the Dolomites, which was reproduced in whole or shortend version by numerous other National Geographic editorial offices in Europe and abroad.

The high distinction by the Unesco World Heritage Committee of the Dolomites as one of the most beautiful natural landscapes in the world as well as the success the editorial had, was the reason for National Geographic Germany, in collaboration with Georg Tappeiner, to bring the photo exhibition "Dolomites – the heart of stone of the Earth" to life and to carry it into the world. In 2020 it will celebrate its tenth anniversary and can look back on numerous exhibitions across Europe and Canada.

Georg Tappeiner has worked for various magazines such as Geo Saison, National Geographic and Conde Nast Traveler. He has also published various publications such as calendars and books, also in collaboration with Reinhold Messner and for his Messner Mountain Museums.

Georg Tappeiner's landscape photos have been shown in numerous exhibitions around the world. As a curator, he has already organized exhibitions for the Italian Ministry of the Environment and the United Nations.