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Léopold-Émile Reutlinger (17 March 1863 – 16 March 1937) was a Peruvian-born French photographer.
He 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, was also a prominent photographer.
Léopold-Émile Reutlinger
(fr.)
The Reutlinger family
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Léopold-Émile Reutlinger (17 March 1863 – 16 March 1937) was a Peruvian-born French photographer.
He 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, was also a prominent photographer.
Life
Born in Callao, Peru, 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 photographs of popular actresses and opera singers from the beginning. Soon, he also took fashion and advertising photos and photographed stars of the entertainment venues, including theMoulin Rouge
Moulin Rouge (, ; ) is a cabaret in Paris, on Boulevard de Clichy, at Place Blanche, the intersection of, and terminus of Rue Blanche.
In 1889, the Moulin Rouge was co-founded by Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller, who also owned the Olympia (Par ...
and the Folies Bergère
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The Folies Bergère () is a cabaret music hall in Paris, France. Located at 32 Rue Richer in the 9th Arrondissement, the Folies Bergère was built as an opera house by the arc ...
, both in Paris. The photographs were either sold to magazines and newspapers or reproduced as postcards.
Especially the business with pictures in postcard
A postcard or post card is a piece of thick paper or thin cardboard, typically rectangular, intended for writing and mailing without an envelope. Non-rectangular shapes may also be used but are rare.
In some places, one can send a postcard f ...
format, which were often clearly influenced by Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau ( ; ; ), Jugendstil and Sezessionstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and ...
, was successful. Some of the pictures were colored and designed as photomontage
Photomontage is the process and the result of making a composite photograph by cutting, gluing, rearranging and overlapping two or more photographs into a new image. Sometimes the resulting composite image is photographed so that the final imag ...
s.
Reutlinger had an excellent reputation at age forty. He clearly trumped his uncle's success. He recorded, among others, the exotic dancer and spy Mata Hari
Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod (, ; 7 August 187615 October 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari ( , ; , ), was a Dutch Stripper, exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for German Empire, Germany during World War ...
, the dancer Cléo de Mérode
Cléopâtre-Diane de Mérode (27 September 1875 – 17 October 1966) was a French dancer of the Belle Époque. She has been referred to as the "first real celebrity icon" and the "first modern celebrity". She was also the first woman whose photog ...
, the stage actress Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah Bernhardt (; born Henriette-Rosine Bernard; 22 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including by Alexandre Dumas fils, ...
, the stage actress Léonie Yahne, the stage performer Anna Held
Helene Anna Held (19 March 1872 – 12 August 1918) was a Polish-born French stage performer of Jewish origin on Broadway. While appearing in London, she was spotted by impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, who brought her to America as his common-law ...
and the operatic soprano and actress Lina Cavalieri. Reutlinger was also one of the pioneers of erotic photography
Erotic photography is a style of art photography of an erotic, sexually suggestive or sexually provocative nature. It is a type of erotic art.
In a spectrum, erotic photography is often distinguished from nude photography, which contains nude ...
.
In 1891, his son, Jean
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, was born, who worked together with his father as a photographer from 1910. Jean died in 1914 in World War I
World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...
.
In 1930, Reutlinger suffered an accident with a champagne
Champagne (; ) is a sparkling wine originated and produced in the Champagne wine region of France under the rules of the appellation, which demand specific vineyard practices, sourcing of grapes exclusively from designated places within it, spe ...
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
* Lebeck, Robert – ''Leopold Reutlinger'', 1979 * Bourgeron, Jean-Pierre – ''Les Reutlinger. Photographes à Paris 1850–1937'', Grove Art: Paris, 1979, * ''Die Schonen von Paris: Fotografien aus der Belle Epoque, Leopold Reutlinger'', 1981Video
* ''La Belle Otero sous l'objectif de Reutlinger'' (DVD), Édition du Compas, 2009,External links
Léopold-Émile Reutlinger
(fr.)
The Reutlinger family
on Gallica {{DEFAULTSORT:Reutlinger, Leopoldemile 1863 births 1937 deaths 19th-century French male artists 19th-century French photographers 19th-century Peruvian male artists 20th-century French male artists 20th-century French photographers 20th-century Peruvian male artists French advertising artists and illustrators French erotic photographers French fashion photographers French marketing people French people of German-Jewish descent Jewish French artists People from Callao Peruvian emigrants to France Peruvian people of German-Jewish descent Photographers from Paris French postcard artists