Grete Stern

Grete Stern ( born May 9, 1904 in Elberfeld, † December 24, 1999 in Buenos Aires ) was a German photographer and designer. She became internationally known in the 1930s through their joint work with the artist Ellen Auerbach (then Ellen Rosenberg ). Both founded the Photo Studio ringl pit. Her works were considered a major innovation in portrait and commercial photography that influenced many European and American artists.

Life

From 1923 to 1925 Grete Stern studied at the Württemberg Art and Crafts School, now the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, Graphic Arts with Professor FH Ernst Schneidler. Then she moved to Berlin. Between 1925 and 1926 first -use graphical work ( book design, layout, advertising) originated there and in Wuppertal. In Wuppertal, she had her first exhibition in 1926. Recommended by Umbo ( Otto Umbehr ) 1927-1928 she made photographic studies in the private studio of Walter Peterhans in Berlin. By Peter Hans, she met Ellen Rosenberg know. Built of both in a former studio of Peter Hans Photo Studio for commercial and portrait photography named it after her two pet names hoop line ( star) and Pit ( Rosenberg ). 1930 came the first advertising work in collaboration with the Agency Mauritius. In the same year and in 1930 and 1932-1933 Stern visited Walter Peterhans ' photography course at the Bauhaus in Dessau and Berlin.

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists in 1933 emigrated to London Star. Until 1936 she worked as a freelance graphic and advertising photographer. During these years, she created portraits of, among others, Bertolt Brecht, Helene Weigel and Karl Korsch.

1935 married Grete Stern, Horacio Coppola Argentinian photographer, who had also studied at the Bauhaus with Peter Hans. 1936 was born their daughter Silvia. In the same year they emigrated to Argentina. In Buenos Aires Stern and Coppola in 1937 opened an advertising and photo studio. Your modern house with a studio in Ramos Meija, near Buenos Aires became a meeting place for progressive writers, artists and intellectuals such as Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, Renate Schottelius, Clément Moreau, María Elena Walsh and the psychoanalyst Marie Langer.

From 1948 to 1950 star for the progressive city Planning Board Plan de Buenos Aires worked. From 1956 to 1970 she worked at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires as a photographer and in the Department for restoration.

From 1959 to 1960 she was a lecturer in photography at the University of Resistencia del Chaco.

Stern was still working until 1985 in their profession as a photographer.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2010/11 - Grete Stern: From the Bauhaus to the Gran Chaco. Photo coverage in northern Argentina (1958-1964), Ethnological Museum Berlin ( solo exhibition )
  • 2008 - La photographie timbrée, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris (group exhibition )
  • 2007 - Documenta 12, Kassel (group exhibition )
  • 2006 - Photographic experiments from the collection of IVAM ( Valencian Institute of Modern Art ), National Museum of Contemporary Art ( MNAC ), Bucharest (group exhibition ) El retrato de la colección de fotografía del IVAM Centro Cultural Eduardo León Jimenes, Santiago de los Caballeros (group exhibition )
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