Gertrude Fehr

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Gertrude Fehr, 1989

Gertrude Fehr , b. Fuld (born March 5, 1895 in Mainz , † August 16, 1996 in Montreux ) was a German photographer .

Life

Gertrude was the daughter of Charlotte Cohen and Dr. Ludwig Fuld. Ludwig Fuld was a lawyer and author of numerous legal books and treatises. He also worked on a voluntary basis in the legal protection office of the Mainz women's labor school. Gertrude Fehr trained as a photographer with Eduard Wasow and at the School of Photography in Munich . In 1921 she opened her own studio there and dealt in particular with artistic portraits and theater photography . There she met her husband, the painter Jules Fehr. Both went to Paris in 1933, where they opened the Publiphot photography school in 1934. After the war began, they went to Switzerland, where they opened the Ècole Fehr photography school in Lausanne , which five years later merged with the Ècole des Artes et Métiers to form the École de photographie in Vevey on Lake Geneva . Gertrude Fehr-Fuld taught there until 1960 in the fields of portrait, fashion, advertising and reportage. After leaving photo school, she worked as a freelance photographer and took portraits of famous artists.

She shaped many photographers through her experimental work.

Web links

literature

  • Women's life in Magenza . The portraits of Jewish women from the Mainz women's calendar and texts on women's history in Jewish Mainz, Mainz 2010
  • Gertrude Fehr. Photographs since 1918, Munich 1980

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Women's life in Magenza. The portraits of Jewish women from the Mainz women's calendar and texts on women's history in Jewish Mainz, Mainz 2010, p. 29.
personal data
SURNAME Fehr, Gertrude
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fuld, Gertrude (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1996
Place of death Montreux