Focus. Florence Henri (1893-1982)

Florence Henri was a true globetrotter of modernity. She was born in New York in 1893, lived with her family in Paris, Munich, Vienna and finally on the Isle of Wright in England. As a teenager, she lived with her aunt in Rome, where she studied piano at the music conservatory. During a stay in Berlin in the 1910s, she became acquainted with the avant-garde art scene and began to study painting, later at the Académie Moderne in Paris. In April 1927, she arrived at the Bauhaus in Dessau, where she was encouraged to take up photography by Lucia Moholy-Nagy. At the beginning of 1928, she gave up painting completely and devoted the next few years to experimental photography.