Elli Marcus
Elli Marcus (11 December 1899 – 8 August 1977) was a German-American theater photographer.
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Elli Marcus
- Born
- 1899 · Berlin.
- Died
- 1977 · New York City.
- Nationality
- Germany · United States
- Occupation
- photographer
- Languages
- German
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Elli Marcus (11 December 1899 – 8 August 1977) was a German-American theater photographer.
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Born in Berlin, Marcus opened her first photo studio in Berlin in 1918 and specialised in fashion photography and advertising photography. Outside her studio she worked mainly as a film and theatre photographer. After Hitler's Machtergreifung in 1933, the early widowed Jewish woman emigrated with her son to Paris in 1934, where she opened another photo studio. When the National Socialists later occupied France, she fled to New York in March 1941. In Hollywood, she photographed Marlene Dietrich and other stars of the time. Among her pupils were Rosemarie Clausen and Fred Erismann. Marcus died in New York City at the age of 77.
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1899
Elli Marcus was born on 6 December 1899.
1977
Elli Marcus died at New York City.
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- 1.Biographische Daten von Elli Marcus in Fluchtpunkt Hollywood: eine Dokumentation zur Filmemigration nach 1933, by Jan-Christopher Horak, MAkS, 1986,
- 2.Elli Marcus on Getty Images
- 3.Elli Marcus on ICP
- 4.Elli Marcus in Glanzrollen: Darstellerfotografie vom 19. Jahrhundert bis 1933, Universität zu Köln, Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung, Deutsche Fototage, 1995, Seite 97
- 5.Elli Marcus in Macmillan biographical encyclopedia of photographic artists & innovators, by Turner Browne, Elaine Partnow, Macmillan, 1983, page 393
- 6.Elli Marcus on artnet
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