George Hoyningen-Huene

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George Hoyningen-Huene (also Georg Freiherr von Hoyningen-Huene ; born September 4, 1900 in Saint Petersburg , † September 12, 1968 in Los Angeles ) was one of the most important fashion photographers of the 1920s and 1930s.

Life

Hoyningen-Huene grew up in Saint Petersburg , where he attended the Imperial Lyceum; on the run from the Russian Revolution he first moved to London . In 1919/20 he worked as a translator with the British expeditionary force in southern Russia. In 1920 he moved to Paris , where he initially worked as a fashion illustrator for Harper's Bazaar and Fairchild Magazine; From 1923 he studied with André Lhote , in 1924 he met Man Ray , with whom he worked. As early as 1925 he was promoted to chief photographer for French Vogue . His photographic work was in clear opposition to the pictorialist view of Adolphe de Meyer .

In Paris in 1930 he met the young Horst Bohrmann , who became his lover, assistant and frequent model for a few years and, under the pseudonym Horst P. Horst, was himself a style-defining factor for Vogue photography of the 1930s. In the same year the two traveled to Great Britain , where they paid a visit to Cecil Beaton , who was then shooting for the British edition of Vogue .

In 1935 Hoyningen-Huene moved to New York and worked (after differences with Vogue editor Condé Nast ) almost exclusively for Harper's Bazaar . In June 1939 he went on a trip to Greece with Herbert List , whom he had met in Berlin in 1932 . In 1943 he published two illustrated books on Greece and Egypt , after which he moved to Hollywood , where he made a living from photo portraits for the film industry and made three documentaries by 1950. After a stay in Mexico, he lived in California, where he was a lecturer at the Art Center School of Los Angeles. From 1954 he worked in Hollywood as a color consultant for George Cukor . In 1967 he still took part in the oral history project at the University of California, Los Angeles .

He died in Los Angeles on September 12, 1968 . In 1980 the first major retrospective of his work took place at the International Center of Photography in New York, with stops in London, Paris, Minneapolis and Long Beach.

plant

  • Master portraits . Women. Fashion. Sports. Artist. With an introduction by HK Frenzel. Berlin 1932.

literature

  • William A. Ewing: The Photographic Art of Hoyningen-Huene . Thames & Hudson Ltd., New York, 1998, ISBN 0-500-28035-5 . (English)
  • Hans-Michael Koetzle: Photographers AZ . Taschen Germany, 2015. ISBN 978-3-8365-1107-0

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personal data
SURNAME Hoyningen-Huene, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Georg von Hoyningen Huene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-American fashion photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th September 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1968
Place of death los Angeles