[Portrait of Tamara Toumanova, Ballerina]

Creator

American Photographer · 1900–1968

Born amidst wealth in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Russian father and American mother, George Hoyningen-Huene led a privileged childhood, exposed to painting and ballet at an early age. Upon encountering Michelangelo's work while on holiday in Rome, he returned home eager to enroll in art school. By 1914, however, war had broken out, and his family fled to England. After the war the family settl