Florence Henri

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Florence Henri (born June 28, 1893 in New York , † July 24, 1982 in Compiègne , Bellival, France ) was a photographer and painter.

Life

Florence Henri started out as a pianist, after studying music she turned to painting. In Berlin she attended the art academy and was a student of Johannes Walter-Kurau , in Paris she studied at the Académie Moderne under Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant , before going to the Bauhaus in Dessau for a summer course in 1927 . Here Josef Albers was one of their teachers. In László Moholy-Nagy eventually studied photography and learned through it effects such as multiple exposure and photomontage know. In 1929 and 1930, Henri took part in the international photography exhibition “Photography of the Present” and the groundbreaking exhibition of the German Werkbund “Film and Photo” (FiFo) in Stuttgart , which presented works from the New Photography.

After her stay in Germany, she opened a photo studio in Paris, where she also taught her own students, including Lisette Model , and joined the Parisian art scene. Here she received important impulses for her photographic work through encounters with Man Ray , Germaine Krull and the Hungarian photographer André Kertész . Based on extensive experiments with mirrors and prisms, she developed a very independent oeuvre that moved between the influences of Léger and the Bauhaus, but also Dadaism and Surrealism . At the same time she worked as an advertising, portrait and fashion photographer. Among those portrayed by her are Hans Arp , Robert Delaunay and Wassily Kandinsky .

After the Second World War, Florence Henri received portraits from her circle of friends and acquaintances, which helped her to make a living. When she was traveling, she only took photos as a hobby. To this day, these photographs are not considered part of her artistic work. She devoted herself to painting. As a painter, she was close to the contemporary trends of the 1920s.

Exhibitions

literature

  • Ann and Jürgen Wilde: Florence Henri Collection . Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover 1993.
  • Florence Henri - exposition des photographies , villa aurelienne, catalog Jean-Michel Foray, Frejus, Electa 1995
  • Sylvia Böhmer, Ulrich Schneider: Florence Henri. Photographs from the Ann and Jürgen Wilde collection . Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen 1995. ISBN 3-929203-09-X
  • Herbert Molderings: Florence Henri. The "esprit nouveau" in photography . In: ders .: The modern age of photography . Philo Fine Arts, Hamburg 2008, pp. 353–364. ISBN 978-3-86572-635-3
  • Maria Schulte (Ed.): Henri - Model - Arbus. Images of man . Situation Art Foundation, Bochum 2014. ISBN 978-3-941778-07-8 .
  • Muriel Rausch (Ed.): Florence Henri. Miroir des avant-gardes (1927–1940) . Editions Photosynthèses, Arles 2015. ISBN 978-2-36398-010-6
  • Florence Henri . In: Patrick Rössler , Elizabeth Otto : Women at the Bauhaus. Pioneering modern artists. Knesebeck, Munich 2019. ISBN 978-3-95728-230-9 . Pp. 104-105.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Florence Henri. Composition ( Memento from July 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Henri, Florence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH new York
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1982
Place of death Compiègne , Bellival, France