Horacio Coppola

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Grete Stern. Portrait of Horacio Coppola. 1934. Gelatin silver print, 3 3/4 x 3" (9.6 x 7.7 cm). Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin. © 2014 Galería Jorge Mara-La Ruche

Meeting Points

Schools Bauhaus, 1919–33
Exhibitions Photographie contemporaine, 1936

Artist Chronology

July 31, 1906	Born At location: Horacio Coppola	Buenos Aires
1926–27	Studies at Facultad de Derecho At location: Horacio Coppola	Buenos Aires
1929	Purchases a bellows camera At location: Horacio Coppola	Buenos Aires
1929	Founds the Cine Club de Buenos Aires At location: Horacio Coppola	Buenos Aires
1930–at least 1931	Editor of Clave de sol At location: Horacio Coppola	Buenos Aires
1930	First-edition publication of Evaristo Carriego by Jorge Luis Borges includes two photographs by Coppola Contributor: Horacio Coppola	Buenos Aires
1930–31	Travels in Germany, France, and Spain At location: Horacio Coppola	France Spain Germany
1931	Acquires a Leica camera At location: Horacio Coppola	Europe
1931–53	Publishes photographs and essays in Sur, Clave de sol, Latitud, Campo grafico, Anuario Socialista, Libertad creadora, and Ver y estimar Contributor: Horacio Coppola	Buenos Aires Milan
1932–33	Travels in Berlin, Cologne, Zurich, and London At location: Horacio Coppola	Berlin Cologne London Zürich
1932–33	Purchases a Siemens 16 mm movie camera At location: Horacio Coppola	Germany
1932–33	Works as a non-participating assistant at the Tempelhof film studio during the filming of Reigende Jugend At location: Horacio Coppola	Berlin
October 1932	Horacio Coppola meets Bauhaus student Grete Stern, who introduces him to Walter Peterhans At location: Walter A. Peterhans, Horacio Coppola	Berlin
October 1932–April 1933	Attends the Bauhaus; makes photographs with a 9 x 12" plate camera At location: Horacio Coppola	Berlin
1933	Makes the film Traum At location: Horacio Coppola	Germany
1934	Begins working with Andres Zervos, editor of Cahiers d'art At location: Horacio Coppola	Paris
1934	Horacio Coppola's and Walter Peterhans's photographs are included in a series of "Nouvelles photographies" published in Cahiers d'art Contributor: Walter A. Peterhans, Horacio Coppola	Paris
1934–35	Acquires a Leica III camera At location: Horacio Coppola	Europe
Early 1935	Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola marry At location: Horacio Coppola	London
Spring 1935	Makes the films Les Quais de la Seine and A Sunday on Hampstead Heath At location: Horacio Coppola	Paris London
August 1935–1940	Lives in Buenos Aires At location: Horacio Coppola	Buenos Aires
October 1935	Fotos: H. Coppola y G. Stern exhibition at the offices of Sur magazine Participant: Horacio Coppola	Buenos Aires
1936	Publication of Buenos Aires 1936 (Visión fotográfica), which includes over 230 photographs by Coppola Contributor: Horacio Coppola	Buenos Aires
1936	Makes the film Así nació el Obelisco At location: Horacio Coppola	Buenos Aires
January 16–March 1, 1936	Exposition internationale de la photographie contemporaine at Musée des Arts Décoratifs Participant: Florence Henri, André Kertész, Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky), Edward Steichen, Maurice Tabard, Marianne Breslauer, Aurel Bauh, Horacio Coppola, Edmund Kesting, Fred Korth, Eli Lotar, Jean Painlevé	Paris
1937–39	Coppola and Grete Stern establish a photography studio At location: Horacio Coppola	Buenos Aires
1937	Second National Salon of Decorative Arts Organizer: Horacio Coppola Participant: Horacio Coppola	Buenos Aires
1937	Publication of Historia de la calle Corrientes, with photographs by Coppola Contributor: Horacio Coppola	Buenos Aires
1937–43	Head of the Film and Photography Office at the National Directorate for Maternity and Infancy At location: Horacio Coppola	Buenos Aires
December 1939	Publication of La Plata a su fundador, with photographs by Coppola Contributor: Horacio Coppola	Buenos Aires
1940–43	Lives in Ramos Mejía At location: Horacio Coppola	Ramos Mejía
1942	Publication of Cómo se imprime un libro, with photographs by Coppola; this is Stern and Coppola's last work together Contributor: Horacio Coppola	Buenos Aires
1942	Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola divorce At location: Horacio Coppola	Ramos Mejía
1943	Founds the publishing house Ediciones de la Llanura At location: Horacio Coppola	Buenos Aires
1945	Cinema editor of Latitud magazine At location: Horacio Coppola	Buenos Aires
1946	Travels to Paris, Lascaux, and Italy; buys a Linhof camera At location: Horacio Coppola	Montignac Paris Italy
1953	Esculturas de o aleijadinho at Amigos del Libro Participant: Horacio Coppola	Buenos Aires
1955	Fotografías 1928–55 at Galería Krayó and Gath & Chaves Participant: Horacio Coppola	Buenos Aires
June 18, 2012	Dies At location: Horacio Coppola	Buenos Aires

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