Tag: Berlin 1920s

Johanna Mandello (she later changed her name from the German-sounding Johanna to the French Jeanne) was born in 1907 in Frankfurt, Germany, into a relatively progressive, secular and art-loving Jewish family. In the 1920s she studied photography at the Lette-Haus in Berlin, an institution set up in 1866 for the professional training of women and…