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Art "Artie" Zeller (born 1930 in New York City , † April 19, 1999 ) was an American bodybuilder and photographer .

Life

Zeller was born the son of the cantor of a Jewish community in Brooklyn . He worked as a clerk at the post office and began bodybuilding in the 1940s. He trained at the Eastside Barbell Club in the district of the same name. He invented an exercise with dumbbells known as the "Zeller Curl". In the 1950s, he posed for photos in bodybuilding magazines and so-called Physique magazines, which were aimed at a gay audience. It was through this that he met the renowned scene photographer Lon of New York (actually Alonzo James Hanagan). For him, Zeller acted as an actor in the homoerotic short film "Days of Greek Gods". Under Lon's influence, Zeller began taking photos himself. As a freelancer, he photographed bodybuilders for Joe Weider's magazines . In doing so, he dispensed with the homosexual eroticism that had dominated bodybuilding photography in the 1950s, thus making the photos attractive to a wider audience. In the sixties and seventies he became a chronicler of the bodybuilding boom, where he photographed the athletes on Muscle Beach and in Gold's Gym . Joe Weider described Zeller's talent as follows: “Technically speaking, Artie was more of a gifted amateur than a polished pro. But his rapport with the guys and his deep understanding made his pictures something special. “ When Arnold Schwarzenegger arrived in California in 1968, Zeller looked after him for the first few days on behalf of Joe Weider. A lifelong friendship developed from this. Schwarzenegger described Zeller like this: "Besides being a natural with languages, he was a walking encyclopedia and an expert chess player. He was a die-hard Democrat, liberal, and total atheist."

In 2000, Iron Man magazine donated the Art Zeller Award for Artistic Achievement for services to bodybuilding.

literature

  • Albert Busek : Art Zeller: Perfectionist & Artist , in: Sportrevue 144/1980, pp. 24-25, 74
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger: Total Recall. My unbelievable true life story . Simon & Schuster UK, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-84983-972-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Arnold Schwarzenegger: Total Recall. My unbelievable true life story. Simon & Schuster UK, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-84983-972-3 , p. 84
  3. ↑ http://harry-gelbfarb.de/artie-zeller.html
  4. ↑ http://classicphysiquebuilder.blogspot.de/2008/05/so-what-is-zeller-curl.html
  5. ^ Reed Massengill: The Male Ideal. Lon of New York and the Masculine Physique , Universe Publishing, New York 2003, ISBN 0-7893-0996-3 , pp. 39-45
  6. ↑ Joe Weider, Ben Weider: Brothers of Iron: Building the Weider Empire, Sports Publishing 2006, ISBN 978-1596701243 , pp 184f
  7. ^ Arnold Schwarzenegger: Total Recall. My unbelievable true life story. Simon & Schuster UK, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-84983-972-3 , p. 84
  8. ↑ http://www.ironmanmagazine.com/index.cfm?page=article&go2=1002
personal data
SURNAME Zeller, Art
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zeller, Artie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer and bodybuilder
DATE OF BIRTH 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1999