Yva

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Born

January 26, 1900 · Berlin, Germany

Died

December 31, 1944

Birth name

Else Ernestine Neuländer

Yva was the was the professional pseudonym of Else Ernestine Neuländer-Simon, a German photographer renowned for her dreamlike, multiple exposed images. She became a leading photographer in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. In 1936 Yva hired a young assistant, Helmut Neustädter, who would later become the well-known fashion photographer Helmut Newton. When the Nazi Party came to power, she was forced into working as a radiographer. In 2001, a retrospective of Yva's work was featured at the Hidden Museum/ Das Verborgenes Museum in Charlottenburg.