BESNYÖ, Eva - Eva Besnyö. Photographin. Budapest - Berlin - Amsterdam

Background information

"Educated in Budapest, Eva BESNYÖ (1910-2003) leaves Hungary for good in 1930 and, like many of her colleagues, goes to Berlin. Under the influence of the 'New Vision' and the 'New Objectivity', she appropriates the aesthetic visual language of photographic modernism. Of Jewish origin, Eva BESNYÖ fled to Amsterdam in 1932. Here she quickly gained a foothold with everyday and architectural photographs.  After World War II, she faced a new beginning in the 1950s. BESNYÖ's photographs span more than six decades of photographic work, with street, architectural, and portrait photographs, reportage and travel images, and even documentations of the Dutch women's movement." (© Wienand Verlag, 2018)

Content

The photography volume 'Eva Besnyö. Photographer. Budapest - Berlin - Amsterdam' is the catalog volume that accompanied the exhibition at the Käthe Kollwitz Museum Cologne 2018 and the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum Bremen 2019. The photographs in the volume cover the six-decade creative period of the Hungarian photographer, as well as the fields of street-, architectural and, last but not least, portrait photography.

About Hungarian photographer Eva BESNYÖ (1910-2003)

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