GreteStern

Grete Stern was born in Elberfeld in 1904 and became internationally known through her collaboration with Ellen Auerbach (then Ellen Rosenberg) in the 1930s. Together they ran the Berlin studio ringl + pit, whose portrait and advertising work is considered groundbreaking and influenced numerous European and American photographers.

In 1930 Stern worked at the Bauhaus in Dessau, and from 1932 to 1933 at the Bauhaus in Berlin. Following the National Socialists' rise to power, she emigrated to London in 1933, and in 1936 emigrated further to Argentina with her husband, the photographer Horacio Coppola; she took Argentine citizenship in 1958. She continued to work as a photographer in Argentina until 1982–1983, and died in Buenos Aires on 24 December 1999.