Alexey Brodovitch Art for Sale at Auction

Photographer, Illustrator, Painter, b. 1898 - d. 1971

Alexey Vyacheslavovich Brodovitch (also Brodovich; 1898 – April 15, 1971) was an Russian-born American photographer, designer and instructor who is most famous for his art direction of fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar from 1934 to 1958.

Early life in Russia: Alexey Brodovitch was born in Ogolichi, ??????? Aholicy, Russian Empire (now Belarus) to a wealthy Polish family in 1898. His father, Cheslau or Vyacheslav Brodovitch, was a respected physician, psychiatrist and huntsman. His mother was an amateur painter. During the Russo-Japanese War, his family moved to Moscow, where his father worked in a hospital for Japanese prisoners. Alexey was sent to study at the Prince Tenisheff School, a prestigious institution in Saint Petersburg, with the intentions of eventually enrolling in the Imperial Art Academy.[1] He had no formal training in art through his childhood, but often sketched noble profiles in the audience at concerts in the city