Tag: Leica
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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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About, Part 2: Early Life
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…
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About, Part 6: A New Beginning
In Montevideo, Jeanne started her career for the third time – and succeeded once again. She was extremely resilient, as one of her main personal skills was her capacity to rebound and to overcome life’s trials by drawing on her creative skills. Jeanne and Arno loved Montevideo and Uruguay. Jeanne would comment later on that…