Eva besnyo biography
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1910
Eva Marianne Besnyö was born on 29 April in Budapest,the second in a family of three girls, daughters of the lawyer Bela Blumengrund (later Besnyö, 1877–1944) and llona Kelemen (1883–1981).
c. 1925
Eva is given a Kodak Brownie, a box camera using 5 x 9-cm negatives.
1928–1930
Beginning 1 September, Eva receives lessons from Jószef Pécsi (1889–1956), a well-known photographer in Budapest who also teaches photography. Her father gives her a Rolleiflex camera with 6 x 6-cm negatives. She will continue to work with this type of camera until 1969. She participates in the Book and Advertising exhibition in the Museum for Arts and Crafts from 12 April to 27 within the group apprentices of Pecsi. ln 1930,she passes her examination to become a “journeyman”. After the examination (11 September) she leaves for Berlin. Here, she once again meets the artist György Kepes, who works in the studio of László Moholy-Nagy.
1930/31
From 1 November to 14 January, Eva works as a volun
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Besnyö, Eva (1910—)
Hungarian-Dutch photographer, specializing in documentation.Name variations: Besnyo. Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1910; children: (with Wim Brusse) two.
After training with established Budapest photographer Jozsef Pécsi, Eva Besnyö began her career in Berlin, shooting for magazines and industry. A liaison with Dutch photographer John Fernhout led her to Amsterdam, where she joined the Dutch Photographers' Society and worked commercially in architecture, portraits, and mode, while also doing large mural work. In 1937, she helped organize the exhibition Foto 37 at the Stedelijk Museum.
Of Jewish background, Besnyö was forced underground after the German takeover of the Netherlands. Following the liberation, an affair with graphic designer Wim Brusse, with whom she had two children, kept her out of circulation until 1968, when she separated from Brusse and went back to work. From 1970 to 1976, she was associated with the activist feminist group Dolle
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Eva Besnyö
Eva Besnyö (1910 – 2003)
Hungarian Photographer
Born on April 29th, 1910 in Budapest, Hungary, Eva Besnyö’s career in photography began with the Kodak Brownie gifted to her by her father and progressed further under the apprenticeship of photographer Josef Pecsi. Her career enabled her to find independence; she set up her own studio in 1931, and staged her own solo exhibition in the Netherlands after rising in popularity. The continuously shifting style of her photography was likely a reflection of her own life; Eva’s work ranged from photojournalism of street life to portraits, architecture, and participation in the Dutch feminist movement, Dolle Mina. Such a varied range of projects mirrors her experience journeying from Budapest to Berlin, where she photographed the lives of the underprivileged and unemployed. Increasing political tensions also drove her migration; her Jewish roots endangered her safety in the midst of rising Nazi occupation.
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