Helmar lerski biography of william hill

Helmar Lerski (Swiss, ) Old Working Woman from Germany (left) Gelatin silver print.

The two German-Jewish photographers and veterans of the Weimar film industry, Helmar Lerski and Hans Casparius, both went into exile to Mandate Palestine in.

"The job of the photographer in the 21st century has become increasingly challenging as the practice is an overwhelmingly populist business.

Lerski maintains a deep focus that reveals two working men in the remote background.

Lerski, who sympathised with the political left wing, thereby infiltrated the photography of types that was practised (and not infrequently misused for racist.

"The job of the photographer in the 21st century has become increasingly challenging as the practice is an overwhelmingly populist business.!

Helmar Lerski

Helmar Lerski was born Israel Schmuklerski on February 18, 1871 just after the Franco-Prussian War in Strasbourg, which was then Germany.

He was a son of Polish emigrants who moved the family in 1876 to Switzerland, just outside Zürich. Initially, he followed his father’s wishes and worked at a bank but left for Chicago in 1893 just before his 22nd birthday and became an actor in the German Theater Company in Milwaukee.

Helmar Lerski, who praised Lendvai-Dircksen's volume one year later.

He changed his name at some point during the next five years since in 1897 there was a notice for the Irving Place Theater in New York that listed him as Helmar Lerski. He must have also taken up photography around this time since by 1910 he was listed in the City Directory of Milwaukee as a photographer.

His earliest known photographs are of musicians and fellow actors and by 1912 his work was included at the annual convention of the Photographer’s Association of America in Philadelphia, in German language newspapers of Milwaukee,