Erwin Blumenfeld

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Erwin Blumenfeld (26 January 1897 – 4 July 1969) was an American photographer of German origin. He was born in Berlin, and in 1941 emigrated to the United States, where he soon became a successful and well-paid fashion photographer, working as a free-lancer for Harper's Bazaar, Life and American Vogue. His personal photographic work showed the influence of Dadaism and Surrealism; his two main areas of interest were death and women. He was expert in laboratory work, and experimented with photographic techniques such as distortion, multiple exposure, photo-montage and solarisation.[1]Template:R/superscript[2]Template:R/superscript

History

Blumenfeld was born in Berlin on 26 January 1897,[1]Template:R/superscript to atheistic Jewish free-thinker parents.[3]Template:R/superscript As a young man he worked in the clothes trade and wrote poetry.[4]Template:R/superscript In 1918 he went to Amsterdam, where he came into contact with Paul Citroen and Georg Grosz.[1]Template:R/superscript In 1933 he made a photomontage showing Hitler as a skull with a swastika on its forehead;[5]Template:R/superscript this image was later used in Allied propaganda material in 1943.[4]Template:R/superscript

He married Lena Citroen, with whom he had three children, in 1921.[6]Template:R/superscript In 1922 he started a leather goods shop, which failed in 1935.[6]Template:R/superscript[4]Template:R/superscript He moved to Paris, where in 1936 he set up as a photographer[1]Template:R/superscript and did free-lance work for French Vogue.[4]Template:R/superscript After the outbreak of the Second World War he was placed as an "undesirable alien" in several French internment camps, but in 1941, he was able to emigrate to the United States.[1]Template:R/superscript There he soon became a successful and well-paid fashion photographer, and worked as a free-lancer for Harper's Bazaar, Life and American Vogue.[1]Template:R/superscript

Blumenfeld died in Rome on 4 July 1969.[1]Template:R/superscript

Publications

Blumenfeld started working on Blumenfeld: Meine 100 Besten Fotos in 1955; it was eventually published in 1979; an English translation, Blumenfeld: My One Hundred Best Photos, was published in New York in 1981. Another autobiographical work was published in German by Template:Interlanguage link in 1998, and in English as Eye to I: The Autobiography of a Photographer by Thames and Hudson in 1999.[1]Template:R/superscript

Retrospective exhibitions

  • 1979: Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 1981: Centre Pompidou, Paris
  • 1996: Barbican Centre, London, travelling exhibition, also shown in Zurich, Lausanne, Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam
  • 2006: Erwin Blumenfeld, his Dutch years, Fotomuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
  • 2009: Erwin Blumenfeld Dada Montagen 1916-1933, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
  • 2012: Studio Blumenfeld, New York, 1941-1960, Nicéphore-Niépce Museum, Châlon-sur-Saône, France
  • 2013: "Erwin Blumenfeld", Jeu de Paume Gallery, Paris, October 2013 to January 2014.
  • 2022: "Erwin Blumenfeld: Fashion is a Game", La Samaritaine department store, Paris, February to May, 2022[7]
  • 2022: "Les Tribulations d’Erwin Blumenfeld, 1930-1950", musée d'Art et d'Histoire du judaïsme, Paris, October 2022 to March 2023

From 13 October 2022 to 5 March 2023, the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme in Paris announced an exhibition titled "The Trials and Tribulations of Erwin Blumenfeld, 1930-1950". Presenting 180 photographs and an accompanying catalog, this exhibition spans what the curators considered Blumenfeld’s most famous and most experimental period. Further, it presents information on his artistic vision and his life during the Second World War. Apart from his well-known fashion photography, previously unpublished photo stories were included: One on a gypsy family at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in Provence, France, and the other on ceremonial dances of Native Americans in New Mexico.[8][9]

References

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Erika Billeter (2003). Blumenfeld, Erwin. Grove Art Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Script error: No such module "CS1 identifiers".. Template:Link note
  2. ↑ Blumenfeld, Erwin. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Script error: No such module "CS1 identifiers".. Template:Link note
  3. ↑ Todd Endelman (2010). Broadening Jewish History. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. Script error: No such module "CS1 identifiers"..
  4. ↑ a b c d Sarah James (2013). House of Dada. Frieze (9) (April–May 2013). Accessed February 2018.
  5. ↑ Mee-Lai Stone (23 November 2022). Fashion, fine art ... and Hitler: the turbulent career of Erwin Blumenfeld – in pictures. London: The Guardian.
  6. ↑ a b Anne Blecksmith (2006). Blumenfeld, Erwin. In: Lynne Warren (2006). Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, volume 1. London; New York: Routledge. Template:ISBN.
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Further reading

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  • Colin Naylor (1988). Contemporary Photographers. Chicago; London: St. James Press. Template:Isbn
  • Ute Eskildsen (2014). Erwin Blumenfeld. Photos, Drawings, and Montages. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. Template:Isbn
  • The Man Who Shot Beautiful Women, film directed by Nick Watson. Broadcast on SBSONE on 22 February 2014.

External links

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