Genia ruby
Genia Rubin (actually Jewgeni Germanowitsch Rubin , Russian Евгений Германович Рубин ; * 1906 in Kiev , Russian Empire ; † February 15, 2001 in Paris , France ) was a Russian fashion and portrait photographer and painter .
Life
Rubin left Russia in 1927 and initially assisted the cameraman Karl Freund in Berlin . He then studied photography at AGFA IG Farben. In 1929 Rubin went to Paris, where he worked as a still photographer in the Pathé film studios and as a portrait photographer. In 1931 he returned to Berlin, met the photographer Rolf Mahrenholz and opened his own photo studio on Berlin's splendid boulevard, the Kurfürstendamm. It was soon discovered and launched by Franz Wolfgang Koebner , editor-in-chief of the popular magazines Das Magazin and Elegante Welt . In 1935 Rubin moved back to Paris, where he worked with Harry Ossip Meerson ; after his departure to America he took over his studio. Rubin photographed fashion for "Femina", Harper's Bazaar and Australian "The Home" during this time . After the war he met the English court photographer Baron (Stirling Henry Nahum); until 1956 he worked alternately as a “fashion guest photographer” in “Baron's Studios” in London and as a Parisian photo correspondent for the Daily Express .
Rubin had started painting in Paris during this time. Through his acquaintance with André Breton , for example , he came into contact with contemporary painting in Paris and was a. a. In 1947 he took part in the international surrealist exhibition in the Maeght Gallery .
In 1957 Rubin stopped photographing fashion and took pictures of parks, gardens, palaces and objects of art in France, England and Italy for “Maison et Jardin” (“House and Garden”, Condé-Nast ). From 1959 he devoted himself again to modern painting, also as a collector.
literature
- Werner Kunze (Ed.): Genia Rubin. Photographs 1929-1959 . Galerie Werner Kunze, Berlin 1978. (Exhibition catalog Berlin, Galerie Werner Kunze, and Hamburg, Galerie Levy).
- Cornelia Kemp, Wolfgang Brückle u. Susanne Witzgall (Ed.): The second face. Metamorphoses of the photographic portrait. Prestel, Munich 2002 (exhibition catalog Deutsches Museum Munich).
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| SURNAME | Ruby, Genia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rubin, Jewgeni Germanowitsch (real name); Рубин, Евгений Германович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian fashion and portrait photographer and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiev , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 15, 2001 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |