{"id":31596,"date":"2026-07-14T09:37:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=31596"},"modified":"2026-07-14T10:07:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:07:55","slug":"re-soupault","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/discover\/artist\/re-soupault\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u00e9 Soupault"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern header-text' data-pattern='ho\/header-kunstler'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\n\n<div  class='color-bg-highlight color-fg-highlight header-space header-height-read-only padding-bottom-6'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-offset-1 col-md-7'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-3'><div class=\"wp-block-ho-slot \"><div class=\"margin-bottom-3\">\n\t<swup-back>Back<\/swup-back>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-offset-1 col-md-7'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n<h1 class='ho-sd-h2' style=\"white-space: normal;\">R\u00e9 Soupault<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 text-align-center col-md-offset-1 col-md-3'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<div class=\"wp-block-ho-lane-wrapper\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\" data-lane-item-count=\"3\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-fluid header-biography-list  cf-gutter-1 cf-side-1\">\n\t\t\t<ul class=\"wp-block wp-block-ho-grid row\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"wp-block-ho-lane-item col col-xs-12\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-metadata'>Photographer, fashion journalist, translator and essayist<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-ho-lane-item col col-xs-12\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-metadata'>born on 29 October 1901 in Bobolice<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-ho-lane-item col col-xs-12\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-metadata'>died on 12 March 1996 in Versailles<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-3 col-md-offset-5 ho-pattern-optional-image'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\"><figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline \" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_enN14K\">\n<script type=\"application\/json\">{\n\"id\" : 8,\n\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"Cherry-Blossom-207x300.jpg\",\"width\":207,\"height\":300,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":10428},\"large\":{\"file\":\"Cherry-Blossom-707x1024.jpg\",\"width\":707,\"height\":1024,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":82544},\"medium_large\":{\"file\":\"Cherry-Blossom-768x1112.jpg\",\"width\":768,\"height\":1112,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":96061},\"1536x1536\":{\"file\":\"Cherry-Blossom-1061x1536.jpg\",\"width\":1061,\"height\":1536,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":175795},\"2048x2048\":{\"file\":\"Cherry-Blossom-1414x2048.jpg\",\"width\":1414,\"height\":2048,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":296901},\"small\":{\"file\":\"Cherry-Blossom-304x440.jpg\",\"width\":304,\"height\":440,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":19098},\"semi\":{\"file\":\"Cherry-Blossom-400x580.jpg\",\"width\":400,\"height\":580,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":30247},\"mobile\":{\"file\":\"Cherry-Blossom-497x720.jpg\",\"width\":497,\"height\":720,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":44151},\"hd\":{\"file\":\"Cherry-Blossom-884x1280.jpg\",\"width\":884,\"height\":1280,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":125036},\"full\":{\"file\":\"Cherry-Blossom-1326x1920.jpg\",\"width\":1326,\"height\":1920,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":264510},\"original\":{\"file\":\"Cherry-Blossom.jpg\",\"width\":1419,\"height\":2055}},\n\"alt\" : \"\",\n\"path\" : \"\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/11\\\/\",\n\"video\" : null,\n\"autoplay\" : null,\n\"youtube\" : null,\n\"youtubelabel\" : \"play\",\n\"brightness\" : 100,\n\"crop\" : {\"x\":0.5,\"y\":0.5},\n\"background\" : true,\n\"scale\" : 1,\n\"zoom\" : false,\n\"annotations\" : null}<\/script>\n<div class=\"height-container \" style=\"padding-bottom:120%; 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In 1921 she began studying at the Bauhaus in Weimar. She attended the preliminary course and then studied in the weaving workshop. At the Bauhaus, she also began to experiment with photography. In 1923 she met the avant-garde filmmaker Viking Eggeling and played a substantial role in the creation of his film \u201cDiagonal Symphony\u201d. After her brief marriage to the Dadaist Hans Richter in 1926, she worked as a fashion journalist for the magazine \u201cSport im Bild\u201d in Berlin. Her work led her to Paris in 1929. There, she once again situated herself at the center of the artistic avant-garde and founded her fashion studio \u201cR\u00e9 Sport\u201d in 1931. In 1933 she met the author and journalist Philippe Soupault. While accompanying him on his journalistic tours, she began documenting them in photographs. The couple married in 1937. In 1938 they went to Tunis, where R\u00e9 Soupault continued with her social-documentary photography. Because of Philippe Soupault\u2019s openly antifascist position, the couple had to flee, only narrowly evading German troops by escaping to Algeria. It was not until after the war that R\u00e9 Soupault learned parts of her photographic work had survived in Tunis. They travelled to New York in 1943 and separated in 1945. In 1948 R\u00e9 Soupault returned to Europe and lived in Basel, where she worked as a translator and radio commentator. She created her final photojournalistic work in the mid-1950s: photographs of German refugees from the former eastern territories. In 1958 she moved back to Paris and concentrated on her literary work. R\u00e9 Soupault died in Versailles on 12 March 1996. <br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R\u00e9 Soupault was born as Meta Erna Niemeyer in Bobolice (then German Pomerania, now Poland) on 29 October 1901. In 1921 she began studying at the Bauhaus in Weimar. 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