Subject: femmes nue Type Of Print: Authentic Vintage Sheet Fed Photogravure/Héliogravure Date Of Print: 1930's or 1940's Printmaker/Engraver: La Néogravure, Paris, France Paper: Medium weight, matte finish Print Origin: France Approximate image size : 20 x 25 cm's Passe Partout Size: 50 x 40 cm's Mount Board Color: White Condition Grade: Fine ++ Photographer: Erwin Blumenfeld (26 January 1897 – 4 July 1969) was an American photographer of German origin. He was born in Berlin, and in 1941 emigrated to the United States, where he soon became a successful and well-paid fashion photographer, working as a free-lancer for Harper's Bazaar, Life and American Vogue. His personal photographic work showed the influence of Dadaism and Surrealism; his two main areas of interest were death and women. He was expert in laboratory work, and experimented with photographic techniques such as distortion, multiple exposure, photo-montage and solarisation.[1][2] History Blumenfeld was born in Berlin on 26 January 1897, to atheistic Jewish free-thinker parents. As a young man he worked in the clothes trade and wrote poetry. In 1918 he went to Amsterdam, where he came into contact with Paul Citroen and Georg Grosz. In 1933 he made a photomontage showing Hitler as a skull with a swastika on its forehead. this image was later used in Allied propaganda material in 1943. He married Lena Citroen, with whom he had three children,In 1922 he started a leather goods shop, which failed in 1935. He moved to Paris, where in 1936 he set up as a photographer and did free-lance work for French Vogue. After the outbreak of the Second World War he was placed as an "undesirable alien" in several French internment camps, but in 1941, he was able to emigrate to the United States. There he soon became a successful and well-paid fashion photographer, and worked as a free-lancer for Harper's Bazaar, Life and American Vogue. Blumenfeld died in Rome on 4 July 1969