Los 4214

Landauer, Lou
(1897-1991)Abstract multiple exposure

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Auktionsdatum 4.12.2024

Abstract multiple exposure. 1940. Vintage gelatin silver print. 24 x 17,8 cm. Photographer's Jerusalem stamp and annotated "Jerusalem. Versuche ohne Linse 1940" by the photographer in pencil on the verso.

Born in 1897 in Cologne, Lou Levi married Georg Landauer, a prominent Zionist politician, in 1923, after attending the Commercial Academy in Cologne. Her passion for photography led her to the Staatliche Fotoschule in Munich in 1928/29. She continued her photographic studies in Berlin, at the Lette Verein, and in 1934, she immigrated to Palestine with her husband and parents. Lou Landauer worked as a press photographer for the Jüdische Rundschau, still published in Berlin at the time, and later as a photography teacher at the Bezalel Hechadash, the new arts and crafts school in Jerusalem. In 1949, she relocated to the USA, where she pursued a career as an advertising photographer and experimented with the Carbro process before transitioning to an assistant librarian position at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York. – Crease in lower right corner, minimal buckling in upper and lower edges, light surface scratch in upper area, otherwise in very good condition.

Provenance: From a descendant of the photographer to the current owner.