Lucien herve biography

Hungarian photographer (–)

Lucien Hervé (born László Elkán: 7 August ,^[1] – 26 June ^[2]) was a Hungarian photographer. He was notable for his architectural photography, beginning with his work for Le Corbusier.

Biography

• &#;: Born as László Elkán on 7 August in Hódmezővásárhely, Hungary, son of Nelly Ritscher and Lajos Elkán (a leather merchant and town councillor).
• &#;: The Elkán family moves to Budapest
• &#;: 3 March, his father dies. Beginning of his piano studies.
• &#;: In addition to his studies of music, sport plays an increasing role in his life. He goes in for Greco-Roman wrestling and swimming. He befriends working-class youths and turns away from the bourgeois lifestyle of his mother.
• &#;: Goes to Vienna, where he enrolls in the university to study economics. At the same time, he takes drawing courses at the Academy of Fine Arts^[3] and visits museums.
• &#;: In the summer, joins his brother in Paris and spends his time visiting museums. At the end of the year, returns to Budapest.
• &#;: In February, returns to Paris,^[1] where he lives with Lucienne Savin. Becomes a bank clerk. Abuses at the bank lead to his resignation in Having been placed on the "black list", he cannot find a job. He becomes
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Better known as Lucien Hervé, László Elkán was born in Hungary in , but his whole career developed in Paris, where since he became the official photographer of Le Corbusier. He started out working as fashion designer and later as journalist and photoreporter during the war. Captured by the Gestapo in , he managed to escape and joined the French resistance, adopting the name Lucien Hervé. In he went back to photography, focussing on architecture. Influenced by German expressionist cinema and the Bauhaus, his images are characterized by marked contrasts and abstraction. Hervé passed away in Paris in , at 97 years of age.

Lucien Hervé’s photographs were on view at the exhibition ‘Constructing Worlds. Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age’ at Madrid’s ICO Museum and are courtesy of Judith Hervé, photographer’s widow. [+]

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