STUDIO LIPNITZKI

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STUDIO LIPNITZKI
Portraits of the dancer Lisa Duncan c.1935 13 silver prints from the period, two of which have the studio stamp on the back: Studio Lipnitzki 40, Rue du Colisée, Paris. A paper sleeve of the same period with name and address of the studio is attached. Various sizes : 9 x 6,5 cm to 23,8x18,3 cm Lisa Duncan, was born in Dresden (Germany) in 1898 and died in Dresden in 1976. Entrusted to Isadora Duncan at the age of six, Lisa Milker, who became Lisa Duncan in 1920, was one of those Isadorian dancers that Fernand Divoire called the Isadorables. Raised by Isadora, then by her sister Elizabeth, Lisa spent her childhood between Germany and France before leaving, when the First World War broke out, for New York. There, she performed on stage from 1917 accompanied by Irma, Anna, Maria-Theresa, Margo and Erika. Under the name of "Isadora's dancers", Lisa and her companions then danced in France and Belgium in the early 1920s. Officially adopted by Isadora in order to obtain American nationality and to be able to return to Europe without hindrance (her German nationality, even after the war, did not allow her to return to Paris), Lisa continued her work and taught dance to many children in Paris during the interwar period. She also danced regularly at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, directed at the time by Louis Jouvet, either as a soloist or with her students, taking up Isadora's dances but also inventing her own choreographies, sometimes in a style very different from those of her illustrious spiritual mother. Her meeting with Georges Pomiès in the early 1930s gave her the opportunity to perform in a duet. His premature death and the Second World War put an end to his dazzling career. After the wars, despite several attempts to open a new school, Lisa led a miserable life and gave her last recital in 1947 before leaving France for Germany where her sister Charlotte took care of her until her death in 1976. (Internet source, text written by Johana GIOT)
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