After a childhood punctuated by numerous trips to Europe and frequent stays in Paris, Germaine Krull (1897-1985, DE/FR/NL) studied photography at the Lehr-und Versuchsanstalt für Photographie in Munich before opening her own portrait studio there, and then in Berlin in 1920. The historian Arthur Müller-Lehning, editor of the magazine ¡10, introduced her to the filmmaker Joris Ivens, with whom she travelled to Holland in 1924. As an independent photographer, she took numerous pictures of the transporter bridge in Rotterdam and was published in the magazines Der Querschnitt, Variété, UHU and Die Dame. After moving to Paris in 1926, she worked as a fashion photographer for Paul Poiret, Lucien Lelong and Sonia Delaunay. The publication of her book Métal in 1927–1928 (a portfolio of her photographs of the bridges of Amsterdam and Rotterdam as well as the Eiffel Tower and images taken at Peugeot, Citroën and Sandoz) enabled her to assert herself as the main representative of ‘Neues Sehen’ in France, which was launched in Germany by Moholy-Nagy and the Bauhaus school. In 1928, she exhibited at the first Salon indépendant de la photographie (better known as the Salon de l’Escalier, because it took place in the staircase of the Comédie des Champs-Élysées), alongside Berenice Abbott, Laure Albin-Guillot, George Hoyningen-Huene, André Kertesz, Man Ray, Paul Outerbridge and old masters such as Nadar and Atget. In great demand, Germaine Krull was published in a large number of French (Vu, Jazz), German (Der Querschnitt), Belgian (Variété) and Dutch (¡10 and Filmliga) magazines, went on to participate in the Film und Foto exhibition organised at the Stuttgart Werkbund in 1929 and published her Études de nu in Paris in 1930.  She settled in the south of France in the early 1930s, where she worked for local newspapers and photographed the villas of wealthy homeowners in Juan-les-Pins, Hyères, Menton, Nice and Monte Carlo. Her book dedicated to Marseille was published in 1935 with a preface by André Suarès. She continued to travel around Europe, moved to Bangkok and then India for a while, before she finally returned to Germany in 1985, the same year she died.