Claude Cahun was a French surrealist photographer sculptor and writer who challenged the basic norms of gender stereotypes and questions around sexuality in the early 20th century. She was born with the name Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob who adopted the way she was in 1914.
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Claude Cahun born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob 25 October 1894 8 December 1954 was a French surrealist photographer sculptor and writer.
Claude Cahun. Lucy Schwob later became Claude Cahun to be gender neutral as an artist and as a writer. Claude Cahun was born as Lucy Schwob in Nantes France to a middle-class Jewish family in 1894. The artists self-portrait from 1928 epitomizes her attitude and style as she stares defiantly at the camera in an outfit that looks neither conventionally masculine nor feminine.
She is best known as a writer and self-portraitist who assumed a variety of performative personae. Claude Cahun was a surrealist photographer sculptor and activist. Lucy had a brother George and uncle Marcel Schwob who was a well-known.
Claude Cahun was a Surrealist photographer whose work explored gender identity and the subconscious mind. She is best known for her gender-fluidity in art and her anti-Nazi resistance. Schwob adopted the pseudonym Claude Cahun in 1914.
She was best known for being a writer and self-portraitist.
