Background
Gertrude Fehr was born in 1900 in St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Gertrude Fehr was born in 1900 in St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Fehr earned a degree from the Art & Craft Shop in Munich, Germany, and also studied at Atelier Wasow in Munich.
Since 1960 Fehr has been a freelance photographer. Previously, she was headmaster of photography at Art & Craft School in Vevey, Switzerland (1945-60), and at School of Photography Fehr in Lausanne, Switzerland (1940-45), and head manager of Publiphot School, Photography and Applied Photography, in Paris (1933- 37). She operated Studio G. Fehr in Munich from 1918 to 1932, specializing in portraiture and theater photography. She has also experimented with solarization and montage.
Fehr belongs to Union Suisse de Photography and DGPh.
