Lucien Hervé
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| Born | August 7, 1910 Hódmezővásárhely, Hungary |
| Died | June 26, 2007 (aged 96) Paris, France |
| Occupation | Photographer |
Lucien Hervé (b. László Elkán) (7 August 1910, Hódmezővásárhely – 26 June 2007, Paris)[1] was a Jewish Hungarian-French photographer well known for his black-and-white photos of architecture, especially that of Le Corbusier, with whom he had a nearly 20-year collaboration.
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[edit] Early life and career
Lászlo Elkán was born into a Jewish Hungarian family in the city of Hódmezővásárhely in Hungary on August 7, 1910. After beginning studies in Hungary, he emigrated to Paris in 1929, joining many Hungarian artists and writers there, such as the painter Lajos Tihanyi, writer György Bölöni, and the photographer later known as Brassai. In 1938 Elkán became a naturalized French citizen.
During World War II Elkán was captured by the Germans (at the Battle of Dunkirk) but escaped. As did many other Jewish French and Hungarians, he became a member of the French Resistance,[2] under the nom de guerre Lucien Hervé, which he kept thereafter. The FTP-MOI was formed primarily from foreigners in the Paris area, many of whom were Jews from Hungary and other eastern European nations, who were in France for artistic reasons and to escape persecution in the east.
[edit] Career
In the postwar years, Hervé became most well known as a photographer for his artistic collaboration with the architect Le Corbusier, from 1949 to the architect's death in 1965. His black-and-white photos of Le Corbusier's buildings—with their strong lights, shadows, and monumental sense of space—are perhaps the most well known images of the architect's work. He also worked with the architects Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Kenzo Tange, Richard Neutra, Oscar Niemeyer, Jean Prouvé, Bernard Zerfuss, and others.
Lucien Hervé explored photographic abstraction and collage.
Since the late 1980s, Hervé's work has enjoyed a renewed popularity. In 2000, he showed color works of his apartment at the gallery of the fashion designer Agnès b. Not long before Herve's death, the Getty Museum in California bought nearly 2000 of his slides.
[edit] External links
- Lucien Hervé - Official site
- Lucien Hervé and Le Corbusier - New book on Lucien Hervé and Le Corbusier
[edit] References
- ^ Photographers A-Z. Taschen. 2011. p. 169. ISBN 9783836511094.
- ^ "'Art proscrit' (Száműszött művészet), Exposition à Budapest du 17 avril au 15 aout 2010", Blog des Mardis hongrois (French), reprinted from Török Zsuzsanna, Száműszött művészet, Budapest: Holokauszt Emlékközpont (HDKE), 2010, accessed 30 Aug 2010
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