1. Florence Henri was a surrealist artist; primarily focusing her practice on photography and painting, in addition to pianist composition.
20 Facts About Florence Henri
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Florence Henri studied in Rome, where she would encounter the Futurists, finding inspiration in their movement.
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Florence Henri would find herself landlocked to Berlin during the first World War, supporting herself by composing piano tracks for silent films.
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Florence Henri returned to Paris in 1922, to attend the Academie Andre Lhote, and would attend until the end of 1923.
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Florence Henri returned to Paris in 1929 where she started seriously experimenting and working with photography up until 1963.
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Florence Henri's work includes experimental photography, advertising, and portraits, many of which featured other artists of the time.
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Florence Henri born in New York to a French father and a German mother.
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Florence Henri began to study music in Paris at the age of nine In 1906, Florence Henri and her father settled on the Isle of Wight in England where her father then died in 1908.
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In 1913 Florence Henri moved to Berlin to continue her music studies with pianist-composer Ferruccio Busoni.
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When World War I broke out in 1914, Florence Henri was trapped in Berlin with her wages frozen.
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In 1924, Florence Henri decided to move to Paris but had trouble obtaining permission to live in France.
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On June 18,1924, Florence Henri married Karl Anton Koster in Lucerne.
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In 1925, Florence Henri enrolled in the Academie Moderne to study under Fernand Leger and Amedee Ozenfant.
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Florence Henri's work occupied a central place in the world of avant-garde photography in the late 1920s.
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Florence Henri became a member of the Cercle et Carre group in 1929.
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At the Bauhaus, Florence Henri met Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and enrolled in his summer photography course.
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Florence Henri moved into Moholy-Nagy's house and became a close friend of his wife Lucia Moholy who encouraged her to take up photography.
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Many of her photographs incorporate mirrors; Florence Henri used mirrors for her own self-dramatisations, in commercial work and to make portraits of friends such as Jean Arp, Petra Van Doesburg, Sonia Delaunay, Wassili Kandinsky, Fernand Leger, and Margarete Schall.
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Florence Henri produced a series of images of the dancer Rosella Hightower.
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Florence Henri's work was included in the 2021 exhibition Women in Abstraction at the Centre Pompidou.