Tag: women 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 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 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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Portrait of French-Uruguayan poet Jules Supervielle, Montevideo, 1944
Jules Supervielle (1884-1960) was a French writer and poet who was born in Montevideo and grew up between Uruguay and France. He started publishing poetry collections (Débarcadères, Gravitations), novels, short stories and plays in the early 1920s. He spent the war years in Uruguay, writing and translating, and gaining in recognition. In 1946 he returned…