Grete Stern

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Self-portrait 1956

Grete Stern (born May 9, 1904 in Elberfeld , † December 24, 1999 in Buenos Aires ) was a German photographer and designer . She became internationally known in the 1930s through her joint work with the artist Ellen Auerbach (then still Ellen Rosenberg). Both founded the photo studio ringl + pit . Her work was considered a major innovation in portrait and advertising photography that influenced numerous European and American artists.

Life

From 1923 to 1925 Grete Stern studied at the Württembergische Kunstgewerbeschule, today's State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart , department of graphic arts under Professor Ernst Schneidler . Then she moved to Berlin . Between 1925 and 1926, the first commercial graphic works (book design, layout, advertising) were created there and in Wuppertal . In 1926 she had her first exhibition in Wuppertal. On the recommendation of Umbo (Otto Umbehr) she made 1927–1928 photographic studies in Walter Peterhans' private studio in Berlin. Through Peterhans she met Ellen Rosenberg. They named the photo studio for advertising and portrait photography built by the two in a former Peterhans studio after their nicknames Ringl (Stern) and Pit (Rosenberg). In 1930 the first advertising work followed in collaboration with the Mauritius picture agency . In the same year and 1930 and between 1932 and 1933, Stern attended Walter Peterhans' photography course at the Bauhaus in Dessau and Berlin.

After the National Socialists came to power , Stern emigrated to London in 1933 . Until 1936 she worked as a freelance graphic designer and advertising photographer. During these years she created portraits of Bertolt Brecht , Helene Weigel and Karl Korsch, among others .

In 1935 Grete Stern married the Argentine photographer Horacio Coppola , who had also studied with Peterhans at the Bauhaus. In 1936 their daughter Silvia was born. In the same year they emigrated to Argentina. In Buenos Aires , Stern and Coppola opened an advertising and photo studio in 1937. Her modern house and studio in Ramos Meija, near Buenos Aires, has become a meeting place for progressive writers, artists and intellectuals such as Jorge Luis Borges , Pablo Neruda , Renate Schottelius , Clément Moreau , María Elena Walsh and the psychoanalyst Marie Langer .

From 1948 to 1950, Stern worked for the progressive urban planning agency Plan de Buenos Aires . From 1956 to 1970 she worked at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires as a photographer and in the restoration department .

From 1959 to 1960 she taught photography at the University of Resistencia del Chaco.

Stern worked as a photographer until 1985.

Exhibitions (selection)

Logo designed by Stern for the Madí group in 1946

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ethnological Museum 2010/11, Grete Stern: From the Bauhaus to the Gran Chaco. Photo reports in the north of Argentina (1958-1964)  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.smb.museum  
  2. ↑ Fundación PROA 2005 (Spanish)
  3. ↑ Presentation House Gallery 2001, Grete Stern: Sueños (dreams) (engl.)

literature

Movie

  • Three photographers: Ilse Bing, Grete Stern, Ellen Auerbach. Documentary. Director: Antonia Lerch , Berlin 1993

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Stern, Grete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ringl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Argentinian photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1999
Place of death Buenos Aires