Bea Feitler
| Bea Feitler | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Beatriz Feitler February 5, 1938 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Died | April 8, 1982 (aged 44) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Cause of death | Cancer |
| Alma mater | Parson's School of Design |
| Occupation | Art director, Designer |
| Known for | Harper's Bazaar, Ms. |
Beatriz Feitler (February 5, 1938 – April 8, 1982), was a Brazilian designer and art director best known for her work in Harper's Bazaar, Ms., Rolling Stone and the premiere issue of the modern Vanity Fair.
Feitler was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1938, after her Jewish parents Rudi and Erna Feitler fled Nazi Germany. She spent most of her working life in the United States where she graduated from Parson's School of Design in New York City. She designed record jackets for Atlantic Records.
After her graduation in 1959, she returned to Brazil to study painting in Rio de Janeiro. In partnership with two other graphic designers Serguio Jaguaribe (the cartoonist Jaguar) and Glauco Rodrigues, she started Estudio G, an art studio specializing in posters, album covers, and book design. Feitler worked in an advertising agency with for the progressive Senhor magazine.
Amongst her most important works of this period are the book covers made for Editora do Autor, a brief publishing enterprise of the authors Fernando Sabino and Rubem Braga.
In 1961 Feitler returned to the United States where she was hired as an art assistant at Harper's Bazaar by her former teacher at Parsons, Marvin Israel, becoming co-art director of the magazine along with Ruth Ansel only two years later.
Feitler and Ansel's joint tenure at Harper's Bazaar created high quality design while responding to the political and cultural change of the 1960s. Feitler was often ahead of her time, in 1965 she and Richard Avedon used the first black model in a shoot for a major fashion magazine, leading to a public backlash, and loss of business. Black women would not begin to be regularly featured in the magazine for several years after Feitler.
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