Rogi André

Rogi André (born Rozsa Klein, 1900–1970) was a Hungarian photographer and artist.

Early life

Rozsa Klein was born in 1900.[1]

Career
Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, photographed by Rogi André in 1935.

André produced a series of portraits of personalities in the arts during starting in the 1930s.[2] Several are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.[3] They include Fernand Léger, Florent Fels, Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Joan Miró, Jacques Lipchitz, and also André Derain, with a 1939 print of his portrait being held by London's National Portrait Gallery.[1] In 1937, she photographed Dora Maar.[4]

On 2 October 1928, she married the photographer André Kertész in Paris, although this marriage was short-lived.

References
  1. "Rogi André (née Rozsa Klein) (1900-1970), Photographer". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
  2. Butler, Cornelia H; Schwartz, Alexandra; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (2010), Modern women : women artists at the Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art : Distributed in the United States and Canada by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, ISBN 978-0-87070-771-1
  3. "Rogi André (Rozsa Klein) | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2019-12-31.
  4. "Dora Maar, Paris". Phillips. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
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