André Steiner French, 1901-1978
André Steiner obtient un diplôme d’ingénieur électricien à Vienne (Autriche) où il a émigré de sa Hongrie natale à la suite de la première guerre mondiale. Il pratique la photographie en amateur dès 1924.
Il arrive à Paris en 1928 et travaille comme ingénieur à la Société Alsthom jusqu’en 1932. Il commence également à publier ses photographies dans les revues françaises (Paris Magazine, Voilà, VU) et installe son premier studio de photographie en 1933. Dans ses premières années de recherches, presque en scientifique, Steiner exploite le potentiel technique de la photographie (distorsion, solarisation, surimpression). Grand sportif - champion du décathlon aux jeux universitaires mondiaux en 1928 -, il photographie le monde sportif. Naturalisé français en 1945, André Steiner se consacre après la guerre à la photographie appliquée aux techniques et à la science.
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Sans titre, 1932View more details
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A strange figure, 1935View more details
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Sans titre, c. 1928View more details
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Étude de mains, 1934View more details
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Étude de mains, c. 1934View more details
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Composition, 1930View more details
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Sans titre, 1933View more details
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Sans titre, c. 1935View more details
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Sans titre, 1937View more details
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Oeil d'un hypnotiseur, c. 1930View more details
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Maroc, 1933View more details
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Main d'une des trois Nymphes d'Aristide Maillol, ca. 1935View more details
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Double nu, 1934View more details
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Sans titre, ca. 1935View more details
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Portrait négatif, 1930View more details
1901, Székesfehèrvàr, Hungary ? 1978, Paris
After studying engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of Vienna, Steiner began collaborating in 1924 on photographic research with the eminent chemist and historian of photography Josef Maria Eder to test out the first Leica cameras. He came to Paris in 1928 where he worked until 1933 for Alsthom, Paramount Studios and Phototone. Steiner also began publishing his photographs in French reviews (Paris Magazine, Voilà, VU) and participated in the exhibit Hungarian Photographers, in 1931, along with other Hungarian expatriates living in Paris. He opened his own studio in 1934 and launched into every area of photography: experimentation, nudes, advertising, etc. He became a French citizen in 1945, after the war, when he dedicated himself to photography as applied to technology and the sciences. In 1948, he published a book on the sculptor Rodin, and in the 1950s, several works on his studies of nudes. In 1948 he also contributed to the exhibit Hungarian Photographers in Paris, alongside Brassaï, Kollar, Rogi André, André Féher, Ergy Landau, and others.
Collective Works
Albert Mentzel and Albert Roux, Formes Nues (Paris: Editions d?Art Graphique et Photographique, 1935)
Georges Besson, La photographie française : 1839-1936 (Paris: Editions Braun, 1936)
Reviews
Photographie (Paris: Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1935,1937-39); Modern Photography (London: The Studio, 1937-38); Art et médecine : Revue réservée au corps médical (Paris: Art et Médecine, 1939)
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Jeux de mains aux Douches La Galerie
Lou Tsatsas, Fisheye Magazine, 22 May 2021 -
Visite virtuelle
Agathe Moreaux, Le Figaro Culture, 30 May 2019 -
La bascule du regard, Pierre Boucher, Jean Moral, André Steiner
Sophie Bernard, La Gazette Drouot, 24 May 2019 -
La bascule du regard
Frédérique Chapuis, Télérama Sortir, 8 May 2019
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