Galerie Le Minotaure presents an exhibition of Florence Henri as part of the PhotoSaintGermain festival.
The exhibition Florence Henri brings together emblematic prints from the 1920s and 1930s, all made during the artist’s lifetime and signed by her. Among them are twelve prints from the portfolio published in 1974 by Galerie Wilde in Cologne—a decisive moment in the rediscovery of her work after decades of neglect.
Trained first in music and then in painting, Florence Henri turned to photography after her stay at the Bauhaus in 1927, marked by her encounter with László Moholy‑Nagy and Lucia Moholy. Back in Paris, she quickly established herself with a singular style nourished by post‑Cubism and Constructivism. Her compositions using mirrors, reflections, and multiple perspectives disrupt the viewer’s bearings, to the point of near abstraction.
In 1929, her participation in the legendary exhibition Film und Foto alongside Man Ray, Germaine Krull, and André Kertész affirmed her central role within the photographic avant‑garde. But the Second World War interrupted her momentum: deprived of materials, she returned to painting and subsequently fell into obscurity.
It was only in the early 1970s that her work was rehabilitated, thanks to Ann and Jürgen Wilde, who dedicated an exhibition to her and, together with the artist, published a portfolio of twelve modern prints—presented today in our exhibition as essential milestones for understanding the force and originality of her path.
Florence Henri
6–29 November 2025
Galerie Le Minotaure
2 rue des Beaux-Arts
75006 Paris
01 43 54 62 93
