Tag: exile in Uruguay
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Cine Central, Montevideo, by Uruguayan architect Rafael Lorente Escudero
At the end of the 1940s, Uruguayan architect Rafael Lorente Escudero, a friend of the Mandellos, designed a modernist cinema, apartment and shop complex in the centre of Montevideo, which was completed in 1953. The two cinemas, the Plaza and the Central, much beloved for decades by the Montevideans, symbolize the golden age of modern…
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About, Part 1: Introduction
Jeanne Mandello, an avant-garde German-Jewish woman photographer re-invented in exile Chances are you have never heard of Jeanne Mandello…proof that sometimes even the biggest talents are not recognized because of the historical circumstances surrounding their lives. In Jeanne’s case, world events of the 1930s and 1940s took her from Germany to France, then to…
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About, Part 4: New Threats and Second Exile
Jeanne and Arno Mandello With the outbreak of the Second World War and the imminent invasion of France by the Germans, Jeanne and Arno had to flee Paris. First threatened by the Third Republic as “foreign enemies”, they were probably interned for some time in spring 1940 in the south of France – Jeanne was,…
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About, Part 7: A New Artistic Identity
Light (black photogram), 1948/49 (Jeanne and Arno Mandello) Jeanne’s personal artistic identity changed on arriving in Uruguay and became “arte foto-gráfica”[1]. She now expressed herself by creating compositions which seem to float outside of a physical space. In addition to her adopting a new country and new cultures, she began to explore a new, resolutely…