From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires: Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola

From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires: Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola

May 23, 2015 to September 13, 2015
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York, New York - NY10019

The studio is in fact named after their childhood nicknames, and it included "commercial and avant-garde loyalties, creating proto-feminist works." His early works show the blossoming relevance in "new modes of photographic expression that led him to the Bauhaus in 1932, where he met Stern and they began their joint history."From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires: Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola is the first important exhibition to target the German native Grete Stern and Argentinean artist Horacio Coppola. These artist are two major figures of avant-garde photography who established themselves on either sides of the Atlantic.

The exhibition starts in the 1920s with each artist’s "initial forays into photography and typographic design." We leant that Berlin is where Stern began taking private classes with Walter Peterhans in 1927. It is in the Peterhans’s studie where she met Ellen (Rosenberg) a year later. She became the person with whom she opened a "pioneering studio specializing in portraiture and advertising."

Here are a few photos from the show:

ringl + pit Spread from ringlpitis 

ringle + pit Ellen Auerbach

ringl + pit Das Ei des Columbus

Grete Stern No. 2 Ultimo Beso

Horacio Coppola. London

Horacio Coppola. Nocturno Cinematografo

Horacio Coppola. Transparencias