Lucien Hervé (born László Elkán on 7 August 1910 in Hungary,[1] died 26 June 2007 in Paris[2]) was a Hungarian photographer. He was notable for his architectural photography, beginning with his work for Le Corbusier.
1920 : 3 March, his father dies. Beginning of his piano studies.
1923 : In addition to his studies of music, sport plays an increasing role in his life. He goes in for Greco-Roman wrestling and swimming. He befriends working-class youths and turns away from the bourgeois lifestyle of his mother.
1928 : Goes to Vienna, where he enrolls in the university to study economics. At the same time, he takes drawing courses at the Academy of Fine Arts[3] and visits museums.
1929 : In the summer, joins his brother in Paris and spends his time visiting museums. At the end of the year, returns to Budapest.
1930 : In February, returns to Paris,[1] where he lives with Lucienne Savin. Becomes a bank clerk. Abuses at the bank lead to his resignation in 1931. Having been placed on the "black list", he cannot find a job. He becomes active in the French-Hungarian trade union movement, studies economics and attends the workers' university.
1932 : Works as designers' representative and then as a fashion designer for couture firms such as: Patou, Rochas, Lelong, Paquin, Worth, Schiaparelli, Molineaux, Lanvin, Chanel.[3]
1934 : Member of the French volleyball team that beats Germany in official competition. Joins the French Communist Party. Lives with Fernande Lacroix (a sales clerk with Patou).
1935 : Organises strikes in the fashion industry and is consequently dismissed by the fashion design company Patou. Becomes a union representative in the Confédération générale du travail (CGT), France's national organized-labor group, then secretary-general of the Central Labour Organization in the eighth arrondissement of Paris. Lives with Mado Ferrand (a head seamstress). Works illegally under the name of Elec.
1938 : Receives French citizenship.[1] In March, he is expelled from the French Communist Party. In July, begins working with the Hungarian photographer Miklós Müller, and he produces photo reportages for Marianne Magazine, a literary publication.[2] In September, when the Munich Agreement is signed, Müller leaves France.
1939 : After Müller's departure, Elkán becomes a photojournalist for Marianne Magazine; for convenience, he uses Müller's byline. His reports deal mainly with social issues, but he also returns to fashion: at the Maggy Rouff fashion house, he makes a report with the actress Alice Cocea, entitled History of a Dress. He is drafted into the army, in the Fifth Infantry Régiment, and becomes an army photographer[3] under the command of Colonel Jean de Lattre de Tassigny. Marries Mado Ferrand.
1940 : 4 June, captured by the German forces in the Battle of Dunkirk. Prisoner of war in Hohenstein, East Prussia. Begins to paint during his captivity. Serves as spokesman for the French Resistance in the prison camp. He and some of his fellows found an underground communist party.
1941 : 2 February, arrested by the Gestapo for Resistance activities in the camp. Escapes in September. He reaches Vichy France, works for Union Electric on the construction of a hydroelectric station in Fond de France. Joins the underground army of the French Résistance in Grenoble, is in charge of resupplying camps in the mountains. He joins the Maquis du Vercors, the groups of resistants. Takes the Résistance name of Lucien Hervé. He paints and takes part in the exhibitions of the Salon d'Automne in Paris.
1943 : Reinstated into the underground French Communist Party. In December, called to Paris to direct the secret activity of the Mouvement national des prisonniers de guerre et des déportés (MNPGD), an organization to help the prisoners of war and the deported people. He produces and distributes leaflets, and goes into hiding.
1945 : Works in the direction of the MNPGD, along with François Mitterrand. Assistant of the president of the French Red Cross and then general-secretary of the French Aid Organisation for Soviet POWs and Deportees. Meets the Chinese government leader Deng Xiaoping, whose portrait he draws at the Founding Congress of the World Fédération of Trade Unions. Divorces Mado Ferrand. He resumes painting.
1946 : In February, sent by Georges Bidault, président of France's provisional government, on a consular mission to Budapest. Stays for three months.
1947 : In January he is expelled for a second time from the French Communist Party. Works occasionally as an interior decorator and a designer of theatre scenery and film posters. He continues to paint and exhibit, and resumes his writing and photography work for magazines such as France Illustration, Point de vue, Regards, Lilliput.[2] He compiles reports on artistic and cultural themes. He meets Judith Molnár, who later becomes his wife.
1949 : Meets the Dominican Father Marie-Alain Couturier, the editor-in-chief of the ecclesiastical art magazine L'Art Sacré, who introduces him to Henri Matisse.[4] In December, on the advice of Father Couturier, he goes to Marseille to photograph the Unité d'Habitation of Le Corbusier. He sends Le Corbusier the 650 prints taken in one day. The architect asks him to become his photographer.[1]
1950 : Starts photographing intensively for Le Corbusier. 3 November, he marries Judith Molnar.
1955 : Accompanies Le Corbusier to Chandigarh and Ahmedabad in India. He photographs the government buildings under construction as well as local historical architecture. He travels to Fatehpur Sikri, Delhi and Jaipur. Commissioned to photograph the construction of the Paris offices of UNESCO, designed by the architects Marcel Breuer, Pier Luigi Nervi and Bernard Zehrfuss. He follows the construction work for three years until its completion.
1957 : 2 May, the birth of his son, Daniel Rodolf Hervé.
1959 : Commissioned by the Spanish publishing house RM Editorial, he photographs the Escorial and Méditerranéen vernacular architecture in Spain. The books remained unpublished.
1961 : Second trip to Chandigarh. Takes advantage of contracts with the French Electrical and Metallurgy Fédérations, the magazine Architecture d'aujourd'hui, and the publishing house Éditions Gallimard to travel around the world (visiting Japan, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Greece, Crete, California, Mexico, Peru, and Brazil).
1962 : Engaged by the director of the French Middle Eastern Archaeological Institute to photograph archeological sites in Syria, Lebanon, and Iran.
1963 : Joins the editorial board of Carré Bleu, an architectural journal founded in 1958. Launches the traveling exhibition Langage de l'architecture.
1966-1970 : His illness limits his movements, he concentrates on organising exhibitions and the publication of his books. Makes collages, often using his own photographs. Progressively returns to photography, continuing his researches on abstraction begun in the late 1940s. He writes for architectural journals and studies urban planning issues.
1970 : Travels to Belgium to work with the architect Pierre Puttemans on the photographs for a book on modern architecture in Belgium, often accompanied and assisted by his son. Starting in the 1970s, serves on many graduate-exam juries for architecture schools (École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, École Camondo, Paris).
1974-1984 : A difficult period of his illness. Thanks to his traveling exhibitions, he has a constant presence in artistic life.
1997-1998 : Travels to Austria to work with the architect Attila Batár on the photographs for a book on the urban planning of the Mölkersteig district in Vienna.
13 October 2000, his son, the photographer and video artist Daniel Rodolf Hervé, died.
Legacy and honors
1985 : Under the auspices of the Rencontres d'Arles, he receives the Medal of the City of Arles, as one of the first donors of his photographs to the Musée Réattu. He also is awarded by the honorary citizenship of Arles.
1990 : Receives the medal of the French Legion of Honour for his activity in the French Resistance.
1993 : Receives the Fine Arts Medal from the Académie of Architecture, Paris.
2000 : Receives Grand Prize in Photography from the city of Paris. Hungary awards him the Order of Merit of the Republic.
2001 : In Hungary, he is elected as a member of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts. He receives an oeuvre award from the Association of Hungarian Photographers. He is awarded with the officer degree of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
2004 : He establishes a photographic award – Prix Lucien Hervé et Rodolf Hervé, to support young professional photographers.
Solo exhibitions
1985 Perception de l'architecture" The Rencontres d'Arles festival
1999 Architecte de l'ombre / Le Beau court la rue" The Rencontres d'Arles festival
2004 Fotografie di architettura – Le Corbusier, Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia di Brescia, Italy
2005 Lucien Hervé, L'œil de l'architecte, CIVA, Brussels
2007 – Lucien Hervé Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris (this exhibition was on show in India as well)
2007 Le Corbusier – Lucien Hervé, Galerie Taisei, Tokyo
2007 Rétrospective Lucien Hervé, Galerie Caméra Obscura, Paris
2007 In memoriam Lucien Hervé, Galerie du Jour agnès b., Paris
Anne Ikhlef, Concerto en noir et blanc documentary, 50' - 2007
Illés Sarkantyu, , documentary, 26' - 2010
Gerrit Messiaen, Lucien Hervé photographer despite himself on YouTube, documentary, 52' - 2013
Jérôme Bertrand, Chandigarh vu par Lucien Hervé, documentaire, 22' – 2013 (Kinokast, Vimeo)
Collections and archives
Photographs of the UNESCO Headquarters taken between 1955-1958 were donated to UNESCO by Judith Hervé in 2008, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the construction of the Organization's Headquarters, according to Hervé's wishes.[2]
The Getty Research Institute holds a collection of over 18,000 of Hervé’s photographic negatives[3] and his photographs are held by other major museums, for example, the Tate[5] and MoMA.[6]
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lucien, hervé, this, article, needs, additional, citations, verification, please, help, improve, this, article, adding, citations, reliable, sources, unsourced, material, challenged, removed, find, sources, news, newspapers, books, scholar, jstor, december, 20. This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Lucien Herve news newspapers books scholar JSTOR December 2009 Learn how and when to remove this template message This article includes a list of general references but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations December 2019 Learn how and when to remove this template message Lucien Herve born Laszlo Elkan on 7 August 1910 in Hungary 1 died 26 June 2007 in Paris 2 was a Hungarian photographer He was notable for his architectural photography beginning with his work for Le Corbusier Lucien HerveSelf portrait 1938 Born 1910 08 07 August 7 1910Hodmezovasarhely HungaryDiedJune 26 2007 2007 06 26 aged 96 Paris FranceOccupationPhotographer Contents 1 Biography 2 Legacy and honors 3 Solo exhibitions 4 Documentary films 5 Collections and archives 6 References 7 External linksBiography Edit1910 Born as Laszlo Elkan on 7 August in Hodmezovasarhely Hungary son of Nelly Ritscher and Lajos Elkan a leather merchant and town councillor 1918 The Elkan family moves to Budapest 1920 3 March his father dies Beginning of his piano studies 1923 In addition to his studies of music sport plays an increasing role in his life He goes in for Greco Roman wrestling and swimming He befriends working class youths and turns away from the bourgeois lifestyle of his mother 1928 Goes to Vienna where he enrolls in the university to study economics At the same time he takes drawing courses at the Academy of Fine Arts 3 and visits museums 1929 In the summer joins his brother in Paris and spends his time visiting museums At the end of the year returns to Budapest 1930 In February returns to Paris 1 where he lives with Lucienne Savin Becomes a bank clerk Abuses at the bank lead to his resignation in 1931 Having been placed on the black list he cannot find a job He becomes active in the French Hungarian trade union movement studies economics and attends the workers university 1932 Works as designers representative and then as a fashion designer for couture firms such as Patou Rochas Lelong Paquin Worth Schiaparelli Molineaux Lanvin Chanel 3 1934 Member of the French volleyball team that beats Germany in official competition Joins the French Communist Party Lives with Fernande Lacroix a sales clerk with Patou 1935 Organises strikes in the fashion industry and is consequently dismissed by the fashion design company Patou Becomes a union representative in the Confederation generale du travail CGT France s national organized labor group then secretary general of the Central Labour Organization in the eighth arrondissement of Paris Lives with Mado Ferrand a head seamstress Works illegally under the name of Elec 1938 Receives French citizenship 1 In March he is expelled from the French Communist Party In July begins working with the Hungarian photographer Miklos Muller and he produces photo reportages for Marianne Magazine a literary publication 2 In September when the Munich Agreement is signed Muller leaves France 1939 After Muller s departure Elkan becomes a photojournalist for Marianne Magazine for convenience he uses Muller s byline His reports deal mainly with social issues but he also returns to fashion at the Maggy Rouff fashion house he makes a report with the actress Alice Cocea entitled History of a Dress He is drafted into the army in the Fifth Infantry Regiment and becomes an army photographer 3 under the command of Colonel Jean de Lattre de Tassigny Marries Mado Ferrand 1940 4 June captured by the German forces in the Battle of Dunkirk Prisoner of war in Hohenstein East Prussia Begins to paint during his captivity Serves as spokesman for the French Resistance in the prison camp He and some of his fellows found an underground communist party 1941 2 February arrested by the Gestapo for Resistance activities in the camp Escapes in September He reaches Vichy France works for Union Electric on the construction of a hydroelectric station in Fond de France Joins the underground army of the French Resistance in Grenoble is in charge of resupplying camps in the mountains He joins the Maquis du Vercors the groups of resistants Takes the Resistance name of Lucien Herve He paints and takes part in the exhibitions of the Salon d Automne in Paris 1943 Reinstated into the underground French Communist Party In December called to Paris to direct the secret activity of the Mouvement national des prisonniers de guerre et des deportes MNPGD an organization to help the prisoners of war and the deported people He produces and distributes leaflets and goes into hiding 1945 Works in the direction of the MNPGD along with Francois Mitterrand Assistant of the president of the French Red Cross and then general secretary of the French Aid Organisation for Soviet POWs and Deportees Meets the Chinese government leader Deng Xiaoping whose portrait he draws at the Founding Congress of the World Federation of Trade Unions Divorces Mado Ferrand He resumes painting 1946 In February sent by Georges Bidault president of France s provisional government on a consular mission to Budapest Stays for three months 1947 In January he is expelled for a second time from the French Communist Party Works occasionally as an interior decorator and a designer of theatre scenery and film posters He continues to paint and exhibit and resumes his writing and photography work for magazines such as France Illustration Point de vue Regards Lilliput 2 He compiles reports on artistic and cultural themes He meets Judith Molnar who later becomes his wife 1949 Meets the Dominican Father Marie Alain Couturier the editor in chief of the ecclesiastical art magazine L Art Sacre who introduces him to Henri Matisse 4 In December on the advice of Father Couturier he goes to Marseille to photograph the Unite d Habitation of Le Corbusier He sends Le Corbusier the 650 prints taken in one day The architect asks him to become his photographer 1 1950 Starts photographing intensively for Le Corbusier 3 November he marries Judith Molnar 1950 1955 Photographs regularly for Le Corbusier and at the same time for many other international architects Alvar Aalto Marcel Breuer Kenzo Tange Richard Neutra Oscar Niemeyer Aulis Blomstedt as well as numerous French architects Bernard Zehrfuss Jean Balladur Georges Candilis Georges Henri Pingusson Michel Ecochard etc and architect engineers such as Jean Prouve 1955 Accompanies Le Corbusier to Chandigarh and Ahmedabad in India He photographs the government buildings under construction as well as local historical architecture He travels to Fatehpur Sikri Delhi and Jaipur Commissioned to photograph the construction of the Paris offices of UNESCO designed by the architects Marcel Breuer Pier Luigi Nervi and Bernard Zehrfuss He follows the construction work for three years until its completion 1957 2 May the birth of his son Daniel Rodolf Herve 1959 Commissioned by the Spanish publishing house RM Editorial he photographs the Escorial and Mediterraneen vernacular architecture in Spain The books remained unpublished 1961 Second trip to Chandigarh Takes advantage of contracts with the French Electrical and Metallurgy Federations the magazine Architecture d aujourd hui and the publishing house Editions Gallimard to travel around the world visiting Japan Cambodia Sri Lanka Turkey Greece Crete California Mexico Peru and Brazil 1962 Engaged by the director of the French Middle Eastern Archaeological Institute to photograph archeological sites in Syria Lebanon and Iran 1963 Joins the editorial board of Carre Bleu an architectural journal founded in 1958 Launches the traveling exhibition Langage de l architecture 1965 First signs of multiple sclerosis appear 2 27 August Le Corbusier dies 1966 1970 His illness limits his movements he concentrates on organising exhibitions and the publication of his books Makes collages often using his own photographs Progressively returns to photography continuing his researches on abstraction begun in the late 1940s He writes for architectural journals and studies urban planning issues 1970 Travels to Belgium to work with the architect Pierre Puttemans on the photographs for a book on modern architecture in Belgium often accompanied and assisted by his son Starting in the 1970s serves on many graduate exam juries for architecture schools Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts Ecole Camondo Paris 1974 1984 A difficult period of his illness Thanks to his traveling exhibitions he has a constant presence in artistic life 1997 1998 Travels to Austria to work with the architect Attila Batar on the photographs for a book on the urban planning of the Molkersteig district in Vienna 13 October 2000 his son the photographer and video artist Daniel Rodolf Herve died Legacy and honors Edit1985 Under the auspices of the Rencontres d Arles he receives the Medal of the City of Arles as one of the first donors of his photographs to the Musee Reattu He also is awarded by the honorary citizenship of Arles 1990 Receives the medal of the French Legion of Honour for his activity in the French Resistance 1993 Receives the Fine Arts Medal from the Academie of Architecture Paris 1994 Named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres 2000 Receives Grand Prize in Photography from the city of Paris Hungary awards him the Order of Merit of the Republic 2001 In Hungary he is elected as a member of the Szechenyi Academy of Literature and Arts He receives an oeuvre award from the Association of Hungarian Photographers He is awarded with the officer degree of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 2004 He establishes a photographic award Prix Lucien Herve et Rodolf Herve to support young professional photographers Solo exhibitions Edit1985 Perception de l architecture The Rencontres d Arles festival 1999 Architecte de l ombre Le Beau court la rue The Rencontres d Arles festival 2004 Fotografie di architettura Le Corbusier Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia di Brescia Italy 2005 Lucien Herve L œil de l architecte CIVA Brussels 2007 Construction Composition Le Corbusier Lucien Herve Fondation Le Corbusier Paris this exhibition was on show in India as well 2007 Le Corbusier Lucien Herve Galerie Taisei Tokyo 2007 Retrospective Lucien Herve Galerie Camera Obscura Paris 2007 In memoriam Lucien Herve Galerie du Jour agnes b Paris 2008 Lucien Herve Photographies Chapelle Bacchus Besancon 2008 Le Corbusier e Lucien Herve Construcao Composicao Lisbon 2008 Parizsi fotografiak es muveszportrek Magyar Fotografusok Haza Mai Mano Haz Budapest 2008 Lucien Herve The Soul of an Architect Michael Hoppen Photography London 2009 Architettura in immagini Lucien Herve fotografa Le Corbusier Palazzo Te Mantua 2010 Lucien Herve Galerie du Jour agnes b Paris 2010 Lucien Herve sculpteur d images Keitelman Galerie Brussels 2010 Lucien Herve 100 Szepmuveszeti Muzeum Museum of Fine Arts Budapest 2010 Elkan Laszlo hazater Lucien Herve 100 Emlekpont Muzeum Hodmezovasarhely Hungary 2011 Vivants Maison de la Photographie Robert Doisneau Gentilly 2012 Contacts Lucien Herve Galerie Camera Obscura ParisDocumentary films EditTamas Margit Lucien Herve documentaire 21 1992 Szilvia Seres Lucien Herve documentaire 50 2005 Anne Ikhlef Concerto en noir et blanc documentary 50 2007 Illes Sarkantyu Lucien Herve documentary 26 2010 Gerrit Messiaen Lucien Herve photographer despite himself on YouTube documentary 52 2013 Jerome Bertrand Chandigarh vu par Lucien Herve documentaire 22 2013 Kinokast Vimeo Collections and archives EditPhotographs of the UNESCO Headquarters taken between 1955 1958 were donated to UNESCO by Judith Herve in 2008 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the construction of the Organization s Headquarters according to Herve s wishes 2 The Getty Research Institute holds a collection of over 18 000 of Herve s photographic negatives 3 and his photographs are held by other major museums for example the Tate 5 and MoMA 6 The Conway Library at the Courtauld Institute of Art is in the process of digitising its archive of primarily architectural photographs including images taken by Herve of Le Corbusier s Unite d Habitation 7 8 References Edit a b c d Lucien Herve Michael Hoppen Gallery Retrieved 2021 01 30 a b c d e HERVE Lucien 1910 2007 BUILDING OF UNESCO HEADQUARTERS 1955 1958 The UNESCO works of art collection www unesco org Retrieved 2021 01 30 a b c d research About The Author Lyra Kilston I m an editor in the Public Affairs department of the J Paul Getty Museum Previously I was a Architecture curatorial assistant in the Department of Institute Contemporary Art at the Getty Research 2011 09 16 The Photographer with the Soul of an Architect Lucien Herve Getty Iris Retrieved 2021 01 30 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a first1 has generic name help Rubeli Ella 2016 09 30 Light and form The architectural photography of Lucien Herve The Sydney Morning Herald Retrieved 2021 01 30 Lucien Herve Tate a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link Lucien Herve MoMA The Museum of Modern Art Retrieved 2021 01 30 Who made the Conway Library Digital Media 2020 06 30 Retrieved 2021 01 30 Mia Gainsford Utopia or Incubator Le Corbusier s L Unite d Habitation as Photographed by Lucien Herve Digital Media 2020 01 10 Retrieved 2021 02 04 External links Editwww lucienherve com Official site Finding aid for Lucien Herve photographs of architecture and artworks by Le Corbusier 1949 1965 Getty Research Institute Los Angeles Accession No 2002 R 41 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Lucien Herve amp oldid 1057970198, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
