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Regina Relang
Regina Relang (1906–1989) was a German fashion photographer and photojournalist active in the 1950s and 1960s. She documented the latest designs of prominent fashion houses. Biography Relang (born Regina Lang) was born in Stuttgart in 1906, daughter of painter Paul Lang and textile designer Minna Lang-Kurz. Her younger sister was the jewelry designer Anni Schaad. Relang studied painting at the Kunstakademie Stuttgart and the Academy of Arts, Berlin. Her introduction to the world of fashion came after she befriended fashion photographer Willy Maywald and moved to Paris. Relang began working for ''Vogue'' in 1938, publishing photographs in the French, American, and British editions. Her work was also regularly used in '' Die Dame,'' '' Madame (magazine),'' ''Harper's Bazaar,'' ''Film und Frau'', and ''Constanze.'' Over the course of her career, she photographed the women's fashion of Christian Dior, Pierre Cardin, and Yves Saint-Laurent and reported on haute couture shows from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fashion Photographer
Fashion photography is a genre of photography which is devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items, sometimes haute couture. It typically consists of a fashion photographer taking a picture of a dressed model in a photographic studio or an outside setting. It originates from the clothing and fashion industries, and while some of fashion photography has been elevated as art, it is still primarily used for clothing, perfumes and beauty products. Fashion photography is most often conducted for advertisements or fashion magazines such as ''Vogue'', '' Vanity Fair'', or ''Elle''. It has grown into becoming a necessary way for designers to get their work out to the public. Fashion photography has developed its own aesthetic in which the clothes and fashions are enhanced by the presence of exotic locations or accessories. The history of this photographic discipline was intertwined for its first decades with the fashion magazines in which the photographs originated, supplanti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isa Stoppi
Isa or ISA may refer to: Places * Isa, Amur Oblast, Russia * Isa, Kagoshima, Japan * Isa, Nigeria * Isa District, Kagoshima, former district in Japan * Isa Town, middle class town located in Bahrain * Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia * Mount Isa Airport, IATA airport code "ISA" * Isa (river), a river in Belarus People * Īsā, the name of Jesus in Islam * Isa (name), an Arabic name corresponding to Jesus in English * Isa, stage name of Lee Chae-young, member of K-Pop group STAYC * Isa, female given name, short for Isabel or similar names beginning with Isa- such as Isadora * Isa Tengblad (born 1998), Swedish singer using the mononym Isa Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional entities * ISA (''Days of Our Lives''), spy agency in TV series * Isa the iguana, in TV series ''Dora the Explorer'' *Interplanetary Strategic Alliance (ISA), military alliance in videogame saga ''Killzone'' Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media * ''Isa'' (album), a 2004 album by Enslaved * ''I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Historical Museum, Frankfurt
The Historical Museum (German: Historisches Museum) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, was founded in 1878, and includes cultural and historical objects relating to the history of Frankfurt and Germany. It moved into the Saalhof in 1955, and a new extension was opened in 1972. The 1970s extension is currently being replaced by a modern new exhibition building and a small administration building which are expected to be completed by 2015. Collection The museum's collection is displayed in several permanent chronological exhibitions: Mediaeval Frankfurt, the Late Middle Ages, the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, the nineteenth-century city, and its history as a metropolis from 1866 to 2001. Special exhibitions are also on display. Important artworks File:HMF Altar Hl Anna DSC 1505 6321.jpg, '' St. Anne altarpiece'' from the Carmelite church in Frankfurt, c.1500 by the Master of Frankfurt File:HMF Duerer Gruenewald Harrich Heller-Altar DSC 6312.jpg, The ''Heller Altarpice (1508) f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musée D'Orsay
The Musée d'Orsay ( , , ) ( en, Orsay Museum) is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1914, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography. It houses the largest collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist masterpieces in the world, by painters including Berthe Morisot, Claude Monet, Édouard Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin, and van Gogh. Many of these works were held at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume prior to the museum's opening in 1986. It is one of the largest art museums in Europe. In 2021 the museum had one million visitors, up 30 percent from attendance in 2020, but far behind earlier years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the drop, it ranked fifteenth in the list of most-visited art museums in 2020. History The museum building was or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Für Kunst Und Gewerbe Hamburg
The Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (''Museum of Art and Design Hamburg'') is a museum of fine, applied and decorative arts in Hamburg, Germany. It is located centrally, near the Hauptbahnhof. History The museum was founded in 1874, following the models of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Museum für angewandte Kunst in Vienna, and the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin. In 1877 it moved to its current premises, a building on the Steintorplatz built from 1873 to 1875.The History of the Museum [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Museum, Kraków
The National Museum in Kraków ( pl, Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie), popularly abbreviated as MNK, is the largest museum in Poland, and the main branch of Poland's National Museum, which has several independent branches with permanent collections around the country. Established in 1879, the Museum consists of 21 departments which are divided by art period: 11 galleries, 2 libraries, and 12 conservation workshops. It holds some 780,000 art objects, spanning from classical archeology to modern art, with special focus on Polish painting. Location Kraków National Museum was first housed at the upper floor of the Renaissance Sukiennice building located at the Main Square in the Kraków Old Town, now home to one of its most popular divisions in the city. The construction of the Museum's contemporary ''New Main Building'' located at 3 Maja Street, started in 1934, but was interrupted by World War II. It was fully completed only in 1992, after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc. The collectio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Historisches Museum (Frankfurt)
The Historical Museum (German: Historisches Museum) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, was founded in 1878, and includes cultural and historical objects relating to the history of Frankfurt and Germany. It moved into the Saalhof in 1955, and a new extension was opened in 1972. The 1970s extension is currently being replaced by a modern new exhibition building and a small administration building which are expected to be completed by 2015. Collection The museum's collection is displayed in several permanent chronological exhibitions: Mediaeval Frankfurt, the Late Middle Ages, the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, the nineteenth-century city, and its history as a metropolis from 1866 to 2001. Special exhibitions are also on display. Important artworks File:HMF Altar Hl Anna DSC 1505 6321.jpg, ''St. Anne altarpiece'' from the Carmelite church in Frankfurt, c.1500 by the Master of Frankfurt File:HMF Duerer Gruenewald Harrich Heller-Altar DSC 6312.jpg, The ''Heller Altarpice (1508) from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Getty Museum
The J. Paul Getty Museum, commonly referred to as the Getty, is an art museum in Los Angeles, California housed on two campuses: the Getty Center and Getty Villa. The Getty Center is located in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles and features pre-20th-century European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, decorative arts, and photographs from the inception of photography through present day from all over the world. The original Getty museum, the Getty Villa, is located in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles and displays art from Ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria. History In 1974, J. Paul Getty opened a museum in a re-creation of the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum on his property in Malibu, California. In 1982, the museum became the richest in the world when it inherited US$1.2 billion. In 1983, after an economic downturn in what was then West Germany, the Getty Museum acquired 144 illuminated medieval manuscripts from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munich Stadtmuseum
The Munich Stadtmuseum (German: "Münchner Stadtmuseum") or Munich City Museum, is the city museum of Munich. It was founded in 1888 by Ernst von Destouches. It is located in the former municipal arsenal and stables, both buildings of the late Gothic period. Permanent exhibitions *Culture history of Munich from the establishment of the city to the present. The exhibition includes among many other artworks the famous gothic Morris dancers, created by Erasmus Grasser for the festival hall of the Old Town Hall, and the original puttos of the Mary's Column. *National Socialism in Munich This exhibitions explains the history of the former "Hauptstadt der Bewegung" (Capital of the aziMovement). *Music collection: More than 2.000 musical instruments from Africa, America, Asia and Europe belong to this grand collection. *Puppet theatre collection: This collection displays the cultural history of the puppet theatre. *Photography collection: The ''Fotomuseum'' was founded in 196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Octavius Hill Medal
The David Octavius Hill Medal is a prize in photography established in 1955, by the Deutsche Fotografische Akademie. It is named in honor of the Scottish artist David Octavius Hill, famous for his Hill & Adamson calotypes, most of which were developed at Adamson's studio, the "Rock House", on Calton Hill in Edinburgh. Recipients * 1955: Walter Hege, Carl Adolf Schleussner, Erich Stenger, Bruno Uhl * 1957: Albert Renger-Patzsch * 1958: Erna Lendvai-Dircksen * 1964: Herbert List * 1965: Otto Steinert * 1966: Martin Hürlimann * 1967: Paul Strand * 1968: Fritz Gruber * 1969: Liselotte Strelow * 1970: Allan Porter * 1971: Edouard Boubat * 1972: Regina Relang * 1973: J.A. Schmoll, gen. Eisenwerth * 1974: Fritz Kempe * 1978: Heinz Hajek-Halke, Willi Moegle * 1979: Fritz Brill, Kurt Julius * 1981: Peter Keetman * 1983: Helmut Gernsheim * 1984: Robert Häusser * 1986: John Hilliard * 1988: Joan Fontcuberta * 1990: Stefan Moses * 1994: Jürgen Heinemann, Klaus Kam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Cross Of Merit
The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (german: Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, or , BVO) is the only federal decoration of Germany. It is awarded for special achievements in political, economic, cultural, intellectual or honorary fields. It was created by the first President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Theodor Heuss, on 7 September 1951. Colloquially, the decorations of the different classes of the Order are also known as the Federal Cross of Merit (). It has been awarded to over 200,000 individuals in total, both Germans and foreigners. Since the 1990s, the number of annual awards has declined from over 4,000, first to around 2,300–2,500 per year, and now under 2,000, with a low of 1752 in 2011. Since 2013, women have made up a steady 30–35% of recipients. Most of the German federal states (''Länder'') have each their own order of merit as well, with the exception of the Free and Hanseatic Cities of Bremen and Hamburg, which rejec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
