Gertrude Fehr
Gertrude Fehr (5 March 1895 – 16 August 1996) was a German photographer. She was born in Mainz on Tuesday 5 March 1895 and died in 1996 at the age of 101.
Also recorded as Gertrude née Fuld
Gertrude Fehr
- Name
- Gertrude Fehr
- Born
- 5 March 1895
- Birthplace
- Mainz, Germany
- Place of death
- Clarens, Free State, South Africa
- Occupation
- Photographer
- Spouse
- Jules Fehr
- Died
- 1996
- Nationality
- Germany
- Languages
- German
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Gertrude Fehr (5 March 1895 – 16 August 1996) was a German photographer. She was born in Mainz on Tuesday 5 March 1895 and died in 1996 at the age of 101.
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• Name — Gertrude Fehr • Born — 5 March 1895 • Birthplace — Mainz, Germany • Place of death — Clarens, Free State, South Africa • Citizenship — Germany, Swiss, French • Occupation — Photographer • Spouse — Jules Fehr
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Gertrude Fehr came from a prominent German Jewish family. In 1918, after an apprenticeship in the Munich studio of Eduard Wasow, Fehr opened her own studio, employing six people. In 1933, she was forced to flee Germany due to the political climate at the time. She fled with Jules Fehr, her future Swiss husband, to Paris. In 1934, the two of them opened the Publiphot school. In the end of the 1930s she and her husband moved to Switzerland where they opened a photography school in Lausanne. She proposed color photography in 1950. She died in 1996.
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- 1.Discover photographer Gertrude Fehr. rkd.nl.
- 2.Musée de l'Elysée: Gertrude Fehr (1895-1996), a woman photographer at the forefront. www.elysee.ch.
- 3.Femmes photographes. L'ouverture des possibles. Photo Poche / Actes Sud. 2020.
- 4.Fehr, Gertrude. hls-dhs-dss.ch.
- 5.Gertrude Fehr. Christelle Michel. Une histoire mondiale des femmes photographes. Luce Lebart et Marie Robert (dir.). Éditions Textuel. 2020. 141.
- 6.Gertrude Fehr ou la naissance d'une école. Vevey : Musée suisse de l'appareil photographique. 1995.
- 7.Annika GIL. IMAGES'95. La Presse. 22 juin 1995.
- 8.Henriette Grindat, le soleil pour postér. notrehistoire.ch. 2012-11-27.
- 9.Luc Debraine. Disparition d'une pionnière de la photographie. Nouveau Quotidien. 19 août 1996.
- 10.Photo Elysée. Expo. Site web de du musée de la photographie de Lausanne «Photo Elysée». inconnu.
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