LEHNERT & LANDROCK

Lehnert & Landrock are the last heirs to the vague orientalist who attracted a great number of artists during the 19th century.

Photographer and creator, Lehnert is the first to discover the East. Since 1904, it joins Ernst Landrock whose administrative spirit anticipates the possibility of commercial successes. To the First World War, Algeria and Tunisia form the framework of their association.
Scenes of the desert, oases or put in scene of naked orientalists, such are the first successes of Lehnert & Landrock which they diffuse in the shape of photographs, photoengravings or postcards.

After the war and an interlude forced in Switzerland, the two associated ones settle in Egypt where they create the East Kunst Verlag. In addition to a very complete and traditional vision of the country, Lehnert & Landrock have the privilege to photograph the treasures of the tomb of Toutânkhamon exposed to the Museum of Cairo. It is in Palestine that their adventure with the image of the peaceful cohabitation of two communities continues.

They separate in 1930 leaving behind them a single glance on the East, not deprived of the leaning Westerner for the exoticism and the erotism but also very concerned of the respect of the traditional values.