Irena Blühová
 Photo: Irena Blühová, 1931-32. | |
| Born |
March 2, 1904 Považská Bystrica, Austria-Hungary |
|---|---|
| Died |
November 30, 1991 (aged 87) Bratislava, Czechoslovakia |
| Collections | Art museums in Slovakia (Web umenia) |
Irena Blühová (1904-91) was a photographer.
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Blühová began photographing in 1924 using Görz Tenax, focusing on everyday life in Slovak countryside. Later she went to study photography and typography under Walter Peterhans at Bauhaus Dessau (1931-33). With the school closed by the Nazis, she returned to Bratislava, where she ran a bookshop Blüh popular among writers, artists, students as well as workers, organising the series of small exhibitions, Umenie za tovar [Art for Goods]. With her friends from leftist intellectual circles including Barbora Zsigmondiová, Rosa Neyová, and Fric Stroh, she founded the Sociofoto association. Later she studied at Karel Plicka's film school in Bratislava, and taught at the School of Arts and Crafts. John Heartfield used her works in his photomontages.
Works
Little Cowherd, 1926. 40.2 x 30.4 cm. SNG.
Pokusy o Peterhansa s dvoma negatívmi nad sebou, from Bauhaus - Desau cycle, 1931-32. 23.5 x 17.8 cm. SNG
Cleaning Lady at the Bauhaus, 1932. (source)
Literature
- Iva Mojžišová, Irena Blühová, Martin: Osveta, 1991, 35 pp, 97 b&w photos. [1] [2] (German)/(Slovak)
- Dana Lacková, "Fotografka všedných dní Irena Blühová", Knižnica, Apr 2004, pp 206-207. [3] (Slovak)
- Julia Secklehner, "Capturing the Ordinary? Irena Blühová and photographic modernism in Slovakia 1926-1936", 2015. Conference talk. (English)
- Short bio: part 1, Part 2.
