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ID: 500000126 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500000126			Record Type: Person

Henri, Florence (Swiss photographer and painter, 1893-1982)

Note: She was Swiss, but born in New York of a French father and German mother. She spent her childhood in Paris, Vienna, and the Isle of Wight. She came into contact with the Futurists in Rome, and in Berlin she studied the piano with Egon Petri. In 1927 Henri studied painting and photography under László Moholy-Nagy at the Bauhaus, (Dessau, Germany). In 1928 Henri moved to Paris where she established a studio where she practiced advertising and portrait photography. She also taught photography in Paris until 1963, when she abandoned photography for painting.

Names:
	Henri, Florence (preferred,V,index,LC,Dutch-P,NA)
	Florence Henri (V,display)

Nationalities:
	Swiss (preferred)
	American
	German
	French
	Parisian
	stateless

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	photographer
	painter
	teacher
	draftsman

Gender: female


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place) Died: Compiègne (Hauts-de-France, France) (inhabited place)

Events:

	active:		1927 Dessau (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany) (inhabited place)
	active:		1928-1963 Paris (Île-de-France, France) (inhabited place)
	active:		1963-1982 France (Europe) (nation)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

student of ....	Léger, Fernand
..................	(French painter, 1881-1955) [500027374]

student of ....	Moholy Nagy, László at the Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany in 1927
..................	(Hungarian-born American photographer, filmmaker, and painter, 1895-1946) [500004274]

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Persons, Artists

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Henri, Florence (I)

Biographies:

(Swiss photographer and painter, 1893-1982) ..... [VP Preferred]
(French photographer, painter, 1893-1982) ..... [BHA]
(Swiss and American photographer, painter and teacher; born New York (City) (New York, United States), 1893; died Compiègne (France), 1982) ..... [CCA]
(French painter 1893-1982) ..... [GRLPA]
(American, 1895-1982, active France and Germany) ..... [JPGM]
(French artist, 20th cent.) ..... [WCP]
(American artist, born 1895) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(Swiss photographer, 1893-1982) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist, 1893-1982) ..... [GRL]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(Swiss artist, 1893-1982) ..... [NMWA]
(Swiss artist, born America. 1893-1982) ..... [MoMA]
(American photographer, 1893-1982) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

Florence Henri ........	[CCA, GRISC, MoMA, NMWA, VP]
..............................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..............................	Canadian Centre for Architecture database
..............................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..............................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)

Henri, Florence ........	[BHA Preferred, CCA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, GRLPA Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, JPGM Preferred, MoMA Preferred, NMWA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
................................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
................................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
................................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
................................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 79095620
................................	Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
................................	National Museum of Women in the Arts Collection Records
................................	NMWA database (2018-)
................................	RILA/BHA (1975-2000)
................................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 37586
................................	Witt Library, Authority files


Note:
English	..........	[CCA, VP, WL-Courtauld]
	..........	Auer, Encyclopédie des Photographes (1985)
	..........	Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) Accessed 08/05/2002.
	..........	Naylor, Contemporary Photographers (1988) 49

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