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Grete Stern
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ringl + pit, 1930 (taken) 1980s (print), Pit in Veil (Grete Stern), Silver print, Swann Galleries - New York, LL/19257
Grete Stern

Joint: ringl + pit

Born: 1904, 9 May - Germany, Elberfeld [now Wuppertal-Elberfeld]
Died: 1999, 24 December - Argentina, Buenos Aires
Gender: Female
Active: Germany / England / Argentina
 
One of the most innovative ‘modernist‘ photographers in Weimar Germany. She founded the ringl + pit studio with Ellen Rosenberg Auerbach in 1930 but this closed down in 1933 when Hitler came to power. She later worked in England and Argentina.

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ringl + pit, 1929, Ringl with Glasses, Gelatin silver print, Hindman Auctions, LL/117716
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ringl + pit, 1931, ringl in Tub, Gelatin silver print, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, LL/117720
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Grete Stern (9 May 1904 - 24 December 1999) was a German-Argentine photographer. Between April 1930 and March 1933, she studied at the Bauhaus. With her husband Horacio Coppola, she helped modernize the visual arts in Argentina, and presented the first exhibition of modern photographic art in Buenos Aires, in 1935.
 

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