Background
Peter von Zur Muehlen was born on March 10, 1939, in Germany.
Peter von Zur Muehlen was born on March 10, 1939, in Germany.
Von zur Muehlen is a self-taught photographer. He received a PhD in Economics from Princeton University, New Jersey, in 1970.
Since 1968 he has been employed as an economist in Special Studies for the Federal Reserve Board, and before that as an economist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (1966-68), both in Washington, D.C. From 1976 to 1979 he did a series of SX-70 still lifes.
He has belonged to the American Economic Association since 1973.