Background
Fritz Henle was born on June 9, 1909 in Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
Fritz Henle was born on June 9, 1909 in Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
Fritz Henle initially studied physics, before entering the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt fϋr Lichtbildwesen (Bavarian State College for Photography) in Munich. Having completed his studies he spent a year photographing works of art in Florence.
During 1934 Fritz Henle travelled all over Italy, taking pictures for the Lloyd steamship line, and in 1935-1936 he visited China and Japan. In 1936 Fritz Henle carried out an assignment for Time-Life, and his pictures were published in Fortune magazine.
Fritz Henle later visited the United States, his connections to Life magazine eventually facilitating his emigration to the country. He became a US citizen in 1942, and moved to Saint Croix in the Virgin Islands in 1958.
Fritz Henle photographed fashion, portrait, travel and industrial subjects and his work was published by Life, Mademoiselle, and Harper's Bazaar magazines.
Fritz Henle died in Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands in 1993.