Eli Lotar

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Eli Lotar , actually: Eliazar Lotar Teodorescu (born January 30, 1905 in Paris ; † May 10, 1969 ibid), was a French photographer and cameraman of surrealism and poetic realism .

Life

Eliazar Lotar Teodorescu was born the illegitimate son of the Romanian writer Tudor Arghezi and the Romanian Constanța Zissu in Paris. He grew up in Bucharest and received his education there. He returned to Paris in 1924 and became a French citizen in 1926. In 1926 he met the German-Dutch photographer Germaine Krull there , whom he portrayed, became her assistant and partner and took part with her in the 1929 Werkbund exhibition film and photo . From 1929 to 1932 he shared a photo studio with Jacques-André Boiffard .

Lotar married Elisabeth Makovski on May 28, 1938 in Boulogne-Billancourt . She was of Jewish origin and came from Estonia . During the occupation of France by the German Wehrmacht , both of them fled to the unoccupied zone of La Roquette-sur-Siagne ( Alpes-Maritimes ). After the war, Lotar neglected his job and instead went to the cafes of Montparnasse . Eli Lotar died in Paris on May 10, 1969 during a dinner with his friend Philippe Guérin.

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Under the stage name Eli Lotar (occasionally also known as Elie Lotar ), he began documentary photography in 1927, including in the Paris slaughterhouse in La Villette . In 1929 one of his most famous photos of neatly lined up pig's feet was taken there. Together with two other photos from La Villette, Georges Bataille illustrated the article Abattoir (slaughterhouse) in the ongoing dictionary in 1929 in the Surrealist magazine Documents, which he founded . In 1931 , Émile Chautard used four photographs Lotar of prostitutes, a bistro or the market in the halls in his encyclopedia La vie étrange de l'argot , a study of the language of the underworld and the red light milieu of Paris.

In 1930 Eli Lotar designed photomontages for the Théâtre Alfred Jarry . Photos by Lotar appeared regularly in VU , Jazz and Bifur magazines in the 1930s . In his role as secretary of the photographers section in the Association des écrivains et artistes révolutionnaires (AEAR), he took part in the 1935 exhibition Documents de la vie sociale at the Parisian Galerie de la Pléiade . As a cameraman he was involved in the documentary We Build (1930) and the industrial film Creosot (1931) by Joris Ivens as well as in Luis Buñuel's 1933 film Las Hurdes (German: Land without bread ). In 1936 he took the stills for the film Une partie de campagne (Eng .: A country party ) by Jean Renoir . In the same year Jacques Préverts Terres cuites de Béotie appeared in the surrealist magazine Minotaure with 14 photos of Lotars from the National Museum of Athens.

1945 turned Lotar a short documentary film about the Paris working class suburb of Aubervilliers , the following year on the Film Festival in Cannes was. For the film called Aubervilliers after the suburb , Jacques Prévert wrote the text of the chanson La chanson des enfants about the social needs of the suburban youth, Joseph Kosma composed the music for it.

reception

In his later years, Eli Lotar sat model for three sculptures for his friend, the sculptor Alberto Giacometti . When Giacometti died in 1966, his brother Diego made a plaster cast of Lotar's last clay sculpture, a squatting figure; He placed a bronze cast of this sculpture on Giacometti's tombstone. The casting was stolen and has since been considered lost.

Lotar's work also seemed to be lost for a long time - except for the published photographs. However, in 1991 the negatives were rediscovered, and in 1993 the Center Pompidou in Paris opened an exhibition of Eli Lotar's photographs. The Eli Lotar exhibition in Paris took place from November 10, 1993 to January 23, 1994; it was shown again in the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn from February 4 to May 15, 1994.

In 2001 the city of Aubervilliers named a park after him in his honor .

literature

  • Alain Sayaq, Annick Lionel-Marie: Eli Lotar . Catalog (in French and English) for the exhibition at the Center Pompidou, Paris 1993, (German Bonn 1994), ISBN 2-85850-670-1
  • Desire in view. Surrealistic photography . Catalog for the exhibition in the Hamburger Kunsthalle 2005, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2005, ISBN 978-3-7757-1573-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tudor Arghezi . Biography: 1905 (Romanian). Retrieved April 11, 2010
  2. ↑ James Lord: Diego Giacometti . Knaur, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-426-02385-7 . P. 174 f
  3. ↑ Quentin Bajac and Clément Chéroux: Voici Paris - Modernités photographiques. 1920-1950 , Paris 2012, Center Pompidou, p. 309
  4. ^ Associations. (No longer available online.) Univ-paris3.fr, archived from the original on September 15, 2008 ; Retrieved April 9, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / melusine.univ-paris3.fr
  5. ^ Documents , Volume 1, No. 6, November 1929
  6. ↑ Le Monde , June 25, 2007: Eli Lotars collages for the Théâtre Alfred Jarry, 1930 (French; accessed April 10, 2010)
  7. ↑ Jerzy Toeplitz: Geschichte des Films 1928-1933 , Rogner and Bernhard Munich 1979, p. 338
  8. ↑ Hans Scheugel and Ernst Schmidt jr .: sub-history of the film , Volume I, Suhrkamp Frankfurt 1974, p 341
  9. ↑ Eli Lotar: Une partie de campagne (1936)
  10. ^ Edmond Jaloux: La revue Minotaure. (No longer available online.) Lemonde.fr, archived from the original on June 21, 2011 ; Retrieved April 9, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / actualites34.blog.lemonde.fr
  11. ^ FAZ, November 23, 2005: At the historical node. dfg-jena.de, accessed on April 9, 2010 .
  12. ↑ Museum of Modern Art: Alberto Gicometti Chronology (English; PDF; 489 kB)
  13. ↑ Städel Museum: Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) (see: "Biography")
  14. ↑ Ian Walker, City gorged with dreams, p. 142. Manchester University Press, 2002, accessed April 9, 2010 .
  15. ^ Aubervilliers website , accessed April 10, 2010

Illustrations

  1. ↑ Germaine Krull , around 1930
  2. ↑ Abattoir , 1929
  3. ↑ Alberto Giacometti: Eli Lotar III (1965), bronze, 65.5 × 35.5 cm. Fondation Beyeler ( Memento from December 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Lotar, Eli
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Teodorescu, Eliazar Lotar (maiden name); Lotar, Elie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French photographer and cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1969
Place of death Paris