31.01.1894 - 13.12.1974, Budapest

Born in Budapest Angelo studied and worked in a multitude of various professions, and travelled widely. He studied in Paris with Charles Reutiliger, whilst also working as a fashion and costume designer; in Hamburg with Rudolf Duhrkoop, trained at Aladar Szekely’s studio in Budapest, and tried film-making under Michael Curtis. He opened his own studio in Budapest in 1919, but had to flee due to white terror, which resulted him in opening studios across Europe from Paris and Nice to later at The Hague and Scheveningen.

During Angelo’s fifty-year career as a studio photographer, he photographed over 450,000 people, including many of the major artistic influencers of his time like Picasso, Chaplin, Josephine Baker, and Bartok. He has been awarded the French Minister of Art’s award (1961) and the Niepce-Daguerre Medal (1960), among many other major awards.

Angelo influenced the future of Hungarian photography, not only through his work, but also through his deep involvement in organising the Hungarian photography movement: He established the Angelo Photography Academy in Budapest (1945), which boasted many famous professional photographers and lecturers. Taught more than fifty Hungarian photographers, who studied under his personal tutelage. And was also a founding member of the Association of Hungarian Photographers (1956).