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▪️In 1927 at age 23 German Photographer Grete Stern moved to Berlin to learn photography from Walter Peterhan, one of the teachers of the Bauhaus..
She was born in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Germany, in 1904. Between 1923 and 1925 she studied graphic arts in the Kunstgewerbeschule, Stuttgart.
Then she studied photography with Walter Peterhans and installed a graphic design and photography studio in Berlin, with her friend Ellen Auerbach, which they named ringl+pit.
Grete Stern's photographs of indigenous people from the Gran Chaco region, taken between 1958 and 1964, have been the subject of increasing attention in recent.
In 1932 she attended the Bauhaus photography workshop in Dessau during two semesters due to the institution closing when Adolf Hitler assumed power. In that political context, she decided to emigrate to England.
In 1935 she married an Argentine photographer, Horacio Coppola, and travelled to Buenos Aires for the first time, where both of them had an exhibition in the offices of Sur magazine.
Her daughter Silvia was born the following year, and the family settled in Argentina.
Grete Stern began to portray intellectuals and artists, and in 1940 –when her son Andrés was born– she began to work for important printing presses and advertising agencies.
In 1943