Tag: female photographers
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Portrait of Frankfurt-born artist Leo Maillet, approx. 1930
Leo Maillet, (Leopold Mayer by his birth name), a friend of Jeanne Mandello’s, was born in 1902 in Frankfurt into a Jewish family. He studied Fine Art in Frankfurt, and in 1930 became a master-class student of Max Beckmann. In 1931, he won the city of Frankfurt’s Goethe art prize but in 1933, when the…
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Hilde Köster, Ascona, approx. 1933
Hilde Köster was a friend of Jeanne’s from Frankfurt. She was a medical doctor.
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Portrait of Florence Henri (Solarization), 1942
Florence Henri, a German-French artist born in New York in 1893, studied painting in Paris with Fernand Léger and took up photography at the Bauhaus school in Dessau in 1927, taught by Lucia Moholy and László Moholy-Nagy. She then opened her own photography studio in Paris. Her experimental work was compared with the photography of…
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Portrait of Joaquín Torres García, Montevideo, 1949
Joaquín Torres García (1874-1949) was one of the most influential Uruguayan avant-garde artists of the 20th century. Born in Montevideo, he studied Fine Art in Barcelona and worked, among other commissions, on the window murals of Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia. After travelling with his family to Paris, New York and Italy, combining his painting activities and…
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