Background
He was born in Schnepfenthal, Waltershausen, Thuringia, Germany.
He was born in Schnepfenthal, Waltershausen, Thuringia, Germany.
After graduated he entered in Olympia-Film in Munich and worked with Thomas Mauch, and he became a key cinematographer of the New German Cinema and prominence for his collaboration with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
He learned at Staatliche Fachschule für Optik und Fototechnik in Berlin. He went to the United States in 1988, and photographed Hollywood films such as The Innocent, Color of Night, A Couch in New York, The Peacemaker and Deep Impact. On November 13, 1997, Lohmann died from leukemia, aged 54.