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Grete Stern (May 9, 1904 – December 24, 1999) was a German-Argentine photographer. Between April 1930 and March 1933, she studied at the Bauhaus. With her husband Horacio Coppola, she helped modernize the visual arts in Argentina and presented the first exhibition of modern photographic art in Buenos Aires in 1935.
The daughter of Frida Hochberger and Louis Stern, Grete Stern was born on 9 May 1904 in Elberfeld, Germany. She often visited family in England and attended primary school there. After reaching adulthood, from 1923 to 1925, she studied graphic arts at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Stuttgart, but after a short stint in the field, she was inspired by the photography of Edward Weston and Paul Outerbridge to shift her focus to photography. Relocating to Berlin, she took private lessons from Walter Peterhans.
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