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LUCIEN HERVÉ* (1910 - 2007)

Architectural study, Paris
gelatin silver print 15,9 x 16,4 cm
verso photographer's stamp

SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE € 250 - 500
STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE € 250

Lucien Hervé (* 7 August 1910 in Hódmezővásárhely, Hungary, † 26 June 2007 in Paris, France), born László Elkán, was a French photographer of Hungarian origin. In 1932, Hervé initially worked as a fashion design representative, later becoming a fashion designer for fashion houses such as Patou, Rochas, Lelong, Paquin, Worth, Schiaparelli, Molineux, Lanvin and Chanel. During World War II, as a member of the French Resistance, he adopted the name Lucien Hervé. He painted and participated in the Paris Salon d‘Automne exhibitions. In 1949, he met Henri Matisse. The same year he photographed Le Corbusier‘s Unité d‘Habitation. He sent the architect the 650 photographs he had taken in a single day, whereupon the architect asked him to become his in-house photographer. In 1950, he began photographing intensively for Le Corbusier. Until 1955, he photographed regularly for Le Corbusier, as well as for numerous internationally renowned architects such as Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Kenzō Tange, Richard Neutra, Oscar Niemeyer, Aulis Blomstedt, and French architects such as Bernard Zehrfuss, Jean Balladur, Georges Candilis, Georges-Henri Pingusson, Michel Ecochard, Jean Prouvé, and many others. In 1955, he accompanied Le Corbusier to Chandigarh and also photographed Ahmedabad. He was commissioned to photograph the UNESCO building in Paris, designed by Marcel Breuer, Pier Luigi Nervi, and Bernard Zehrfuss. He documented the construction work for three years until the building complex‘s completion. Further artists and styles: Le Corbusier, Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger, Jean Prouvé, Bernard Zehrfuss, Georges Candilis, Georges-Henri Pingusson, Michel Écochard, New Vision, New Objectivity, Architectural Photography
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