Horst P. Horst

Horst P. Horst was born Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann in 1906 inWeissenfels-an-der-Salle, Germany. Growing up in a middle-class family, Horst vacationed in Weimar, where he became acquainted with students of the Bauhaus School. After a year long bout with lung disease in the late 1920s and a half-hearted attempt at a clerical job and the study of Chinese, Horst took up a career in carpentry and furniture-making while at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Hamburg. Horst soon excelled at these trades and in 1930 moved to Paris to work with esteemed architect Le Corbusier. Several years later, disillusioned with the monetary aspect of architecture and the impersonal nature of creating for "the masses," Horst began assisting celebrated Vogue photographer Baron George Hoyningen-Huene in his studio.