Léopold-Émile Reutlinger (17 March 1863 – 16 March 1937) was a French photographer who came from a successful German-Jewish family of photographers. His uncle Charles Reutlinger founded the family's photography business, and his father was the photographer Émile Reutlinger. His son

Jean Reutlinger Jean Reutlinger (born John Léo Reutlinger, 19 March 1891 – 22 August 1914) was a French photographer. Biography Jean Reutlinger was born John Léo Reutlinger on 19 March 1891 in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, the first child to photogra ...

was also a prominent photographer.

Life

Born in

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, Reutlinger became a photographer like his uncle and his father. He lived in Callao until 1883 and then, at his father's insistence, entered the studio in Paris, which his father had been running alone since 1880. He took over the studio from his father after 1890. Like his uncle, he took photos of popular actresses and opera singers from the beginning. Soon he also took fashion and advertising photos and photographed stars of the entertainment venues like the

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and the

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. The photos were either sold to magazines and newspapers or reproduced as postcards. Especially the business with pictures in

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format, which were often clearly influenced by Art Nouveau, was successful. Some of the pictures were colored and designed as

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s. Reutlinger had an excellent reputation at the age of 40. He clearly trumped his uncle's success. He recorded among others

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, Sarah Bernhardt,

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and

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. Reutlinger was also one of the pioneers of erotic photography. In 1891 his son

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was born, who worked together with his father as a photographer from 1910. Jean died in 1914 in

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. In 1930, Reutlinger suffered an accident with a champagne cork, which cost him an eye and seriously affected his profession. But he continued to run the studio until his death in Paris in 1937.

Gallery

References

Bibliography

* ''Die Schonen von Paris: Fotografien aus der Belle Epoque, Leopold Reutlinger'', 1981 * Robert Lebeck: ''Leopold Reutlinger'', 1979 * Jean-Pierre Bourgeron: ''Les Reutlinger. Photographes à Paris 1850-1937'', Grove art: Paris 1979,

Video

* ''La Belle Otero sous l'objectif de Reutlinger'' (DVD), Édition du Compas 2009,

External links

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