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Design for a Tapestry, author: Gunta Stölzl, 1923.

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‘Feather’, Photography Class by Peterhans, Bauhaus Berlin, photo: Horacio Coppola, 1932, reproduction.

…alongside his studies at the Bauhaus he worked as an assistant on the film 'Reifende Jugend’ (The Growing Youth; Carl Frölich, 1933) at the Tempelhof Film Studios. In Berlin, Coppola met Walter Peterhans’s student Grete Stern, who introduced him to the master of the Bauhaus photography class and encouraged him to enrol as a student there.

Coppola continued to work with the abstraction of shapes that he had learned from Peterhans after he returned to Argentina. In 1936, Stern and Coppola, now married and with two children, emigrated to Argentina. In Buenos Aires, they were able to hold their first joint photo exhibition, which went down in history as the first exhibition of modern photography in Argentina.

Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola are today regarded as two of the most important Argentinian photographers. Horacio Coppola died on 18 June, 2012 at the age of 105.