Henry Wolf
| Henry Wolf Esquire | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 23, 1925 Vienna, Austria |
| Died | February 14, 2005 (aged 79) New York, USA |
| Occupation | Art director, graphic designer, photographer, author, teacher |
| Years active | 1946-2005 |
Henry Wolf (May 23, 1925 - February 14, 2005) was an Austrian-born, American graphic designer, photographer and art director. He influenced and energized magazine design during the 1950s and 1960s with his bold layouts, elegant typography, and whimsical cover photographs while serving as art director at Esquire, Bazaar, and Show magazines. Wolf opened his own photography studio, Henry Wolf Productions, in 1971, while also teaching magazine design and photography classes. In 1976 Wolf was awarded the American Institute of Graphic Arts Medal for Lifetime Achievement, and in 1980 he was inducted into the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame.
Henry Wolf was born into a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria on May 23, 1925. With Hitler in power in 1938, his secure childhood in Vienna ended, and his family left Austria and began a three-year odyssey through France and North Africa. Wolf studied art in Paris, but after hiding from the Germans and living in two detention camps in Morocco, the family relocated to the United States in 1941. Wolf joined the Army in 1943, serving with an intelligence unit in the Pacific until 1946.
Wolf worked with photographers Richard Avedon, Melvin Sokolsky and Art Kane before he launched his own photography studio on the upper East Side of New York. Wolf became the art director of Esquire, in 1952, his designs becoming the sophisticated image for which Esquire is now known.[3] In 1958, Wolf became the art director of Harper's Bazaar, succeeding Alexey Brodovitch. Wolf worked with Richard Avedon, and Man Ray. After working for three years for the Harper's Bazaar, Wolf left to start a new a new progressive arts magazine Show, for A&P Heir Huntington Hartford.
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