Kurt Lubinski
Illustration — Kurt and Margot Lubinski (c. 1928) Kurt Gottlieb Lubinski (October 19, 1899 – August 15, 1955) was a German and Dutch author and photojournalist who traveled through remote areas of the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia.
Kurt Lubinski
![Omschrijving: Fotograaf Kurt Lubinski, met fotocamera, met twee Kirgizische mannen op de steppen van Kazachstan (Kirgisië, Rusland, Sovjet-Unie), [1928].](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Fotograaf_Kurt_Lubinski%2C_met_fotocamera%2C_met_twee_Kirgizische_mannen_op_de_steppen_van_Kazachstan%2C_SFA002006853.jpg/1280px-Fotograaf_Kurt_Lubinski%2C_met_fotocamera%2C_met_twee_Kirgizische_mannen_op_de_steppen_van_Kazachstan%2C_SFA002006853.jpg)
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- 1899 · Berlin.
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- photojournalist · germanist · photographer · actor
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Illustration — Kurt and Margot Lubinski (c. 1928) Kurt Gottlieb Lubinski (October 19, 1899 – August 15, 1955) was a German and Dutch author and photojournalist who traveled through remote areas of the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia.
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Kurt Lubinski (1899–1969) was an actor, germanist and photographer, among other activities, of German nationality. The actor was born in Berlin and died in New York City. Works are held at Anne Frank House.
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Lubinski was born in Berlin. He worked for the Ullstein Verlag in the late 1920s, emigrated to The Netherlands in 1933 and to the United States in 1943. He worked for Dutch illustrated weeklies such as Het Leven where he was an early photojournalist who traveled through the remote areas of the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia. His unusual subject matter—people from rarely-photographed cultures, lions riding in sidecars, people behaving oddly in public places—gave him the reputation of being "among the first to acquaint the general public with images of strange cultures and exotic peoples." He died on August 15, 1955, in New York.
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He was married to photographer Margot R. Lewin-Richter in 1927 and later (in 1950) divorced. They had one son, Peter, in 1931. Margot and Peter changed their last name to Lucas when they emigrated to the US.
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![Omschrijving: Kurt en Margot Lubinski met een hertje in de armen bij een een jongen in het Altai-gebergte, Zuid-Siberië. Rusland, Sovjet-Unie [1928].](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Date%3D1928Kurt_en_Margot_Lubinski_met_een_hertje_in_de_armen_bij_een_een_jongen_in_het%2C_SFA002006856.jpg/800px-Date%3D1928Kurt_en_Margot_Lubinski_met_een_hertje_in_de_armen_bij_een_een_jongen_in_het%2C_SFA002006856.jpg)
Omschrijving: Kurt en Margot Lubinski met een hertje in de armen bij een een jongen in het Altai-gebergte, Zuid-Siberië. Rusland, Sovjet-Unie [1928].
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- 1.Registry Office Berlin-Wilmersdorf, marriage certificate No. 33, dated February 12, 1927
- 2.The Memory of the Netherlands. Kurt Lubinskis photographs for 'Het Leven'.
- 3.Richard Pankhurst. Ethiopia Photographed: Historic Photographs of the Country and its People. Routledge. 22. May 13, 2013.
- 4.Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam. Kurt Lubinski, Photographer in Exile.
- 5.NEUMANN family tree, Descendants of Nachmann BEN HIRSCH. loebtree.com.
- 6.Searching for the Lubinski Family. teklaszymanski2.wordpress.com. 31 January 2010.
- 7.Dust in the Wind, a European Journey lends personal perspective to the Holocaust. Westways Magazine. 36–40. October 2007.
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