Elli Marcus (11 December 1899 – 8 August 1977) was a German-American theater photographer.Biographische Daten von Elli Marcus in Fluchtpunkt Hollywood: eine Dokumentation zur Filmemigration nach 1933, by Jan-Christopher Horak, MAkS, 1986, Elli Marcus on Getty ImagesElli Marcus on ICP
Life Born in Berlin, Marcus opened her first photo studio in Berlin in 1918 and specialised in fashion photography and advertising photography. Outside her studio she worked mainly as a film and theatre photographer.Elli Marcus in Glanzrollen: Darstellerfotografie vom 19. Jahrhundert bis 1933, Universität zu Köln, Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung, Deutsche Fototage, 1995, Seite 97
After Hitler's Machtergreifung in 1933, the early widowed Jewish woman emigrated with her son to Paris in 1934, where she opened another photo studio. When the National Socialists later occupied France, she fled to New York in March 1941. In Hollywood, she photographed Marlene Dietrich and other stars of the time.Elli Marcus in Macmillan biographical encyclopedia of photographic artists & innovators, by Turner Browne, Elaine Partnow, Macmillan, 1983, page 393
Among her pupils were Rosemarie Clausen and Fred Erismann.Elli Marcus on artnet
Marcus died in New York City at the age of 77.
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