Lena Herzog Biography | Who is Lena Herzog?
Elena Herzog (née Pisetski; born in 1970) is a Russian-American visual artist and photographer. Herzog moved to Leningrad in 1987 to attend the Philological Faculty of Leningrad University, where she studied languages (English and Spanish) and literature.
In 1990 she emigrated to the United States and graduated with a degree in Philosophy from Mills College, specializing in the History and Philosophy of Science. She was also a research consultant at Stanford University.
She started taking photographs in 1997 and studied photographic printing techniques with the Italian master printer Ivan Dalla Tana in Milan and later with the French master printer Marc Valesella. She combines some of the very early photographic darkroom processes with contemporary and her own techniques to achieve her desired effects.
Her work ranges from classical documentary to the experimental and conceptual and has been published and reviewed in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Paris Review, Harper’s Magazine, El País, El Mundo The Believer, The British Journal of Photography, and Cabinet, among others.
Her work has been exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), the International Center of Photography (New York), and the British Museum, among others.
Lena Herzog is an American citizen, naturalized in 1999. Since 1995, she has lived in California with her husband, German filmmaker Werner Herzog, first in San Francisco, and since 2001 in Los Angeles.
They have collaborated on several projects including a book of stills from the film Bad Lieutenant which was published by Rizzoli in 2009. Werner Herzog wrote the introduction to Lena Herzog’s book Pilgrims, which was released in 2002.
Her book Strandbeest: the Dream Machines of Theo Jansen was published by TASCHEN in 2014. Herzog has authored six books/monographs of photography.
In 2016, Herzog’s complex video/audio installation Last Whispers: Oratorio for Vanishing Voices, Collapsing Universes, and a Falling Tree, in which she collaborated with composer and director Marco Capalbo and sound designer Mark Mangini, premiered at the British Museum in the Living and Dying Gallery adjacent to the Rosetta Stone.
A film and surround-sound experience that incorporates archival recordings of endangered languages, Last Whispers began a world tour in 2019.
Lena Herzog Age | How Old is Lena Herzog?
Elena Herzog is a Russian-American visual artist and photographer. Who was born in 1970, in Yekaterinburg, Russia but she Residence in Los Angeles, CA. Lena Herzog is 49 years old as of 2019
Lena Herzog Height | How Tall is Lena Herzog?
Elena Herzog is a Russian-American visual artist and photographer. Lena Herzog has a height of 6’1″ (185 cm)tall
Lena Herzog Net Worth | How Much Worth is Lena Herzog?
Lena Herzog is a Russian-American visual artist and photographer. In 1990 she emigrated to the United States and graduated with a degree in Philosophy from Mills College, specializing in the History and Philosophy of Science. Lena Herzog has an estimated net worth of$600,000 as of 2019.
While her husband Werner Herzog is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, author, and opera director who has a net worth of $10 million. Werner Herzog was born in Munich, Germany in September 1942. He is one of the most renowned figures in the New German Cinema.
Herzog has worked on several films including Signs of Life, Even Dwarfs Started Small, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Heart of Glass, Stroszek, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Woyzeck, Where the Green Ants Dream, Cobra Verde, Scream of Stone, Invincible, The Wild Blue Yonder, Rescue Dawn, The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?, and Queen of the Desert.
Herzog has also written and directed many documentary films and has starred in and done voice roles for movies and television. He has also authored several books. He has won just shy of 50 awards and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2009 for Best Documentary for Encounters at the End of the World.
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Lena Herzog Husband, Family, Children| Who is Lena Herzog Married to?
Werner Herzog the husband of Lena Herzog. He is a German film director, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director. Herzog is a figure of the New German Cinema. His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals who are in conflict with nature.
Herzog has been married three times and has three children. In 1967, he married Martje Grohmann with whom he had a son, Rudolph Amos Achmed, born in 1973. They were divorced in 1985. In 1980, Herzog’s daughter Hanna Mattes (a photographer and artist) was born to his companion Eva Mattes.
In 1987, he married Christine Maria Ebenberger and their son, Simon Herzog, was born in 1989. They divorced in 1997. Herzog moved to the United States in 1996 and married photographer Lena Herzog, formerly Elena Pisetski, in 1999. Herzog is an atheist. In addition to his native German, Herzog can speak English, Spanish, French, and Greek.
Werner Herzog made his first film in 1961 at the age of 19. Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than sixty feature- and documentary films, such as Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1978), Fitzcarraldo (1982), Lessons of Darkness (1992), Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997), My Best Friend (1999),
Invincible (2000), Grizzly Man (2005), Encounters at the End of the World (2007), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009), and Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010). He has published more than a dozen books of prose and directed as many operas.
French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog “the most important film director alive.” American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog “has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting.
Even his failures are spectacular.” He was named one of the world’s 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2009.