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Endpoint: Génia Reinberg (Photographer)



created on: 20/01/2026
by: bob (10481)
 
 

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General info :
Génia Reinberg (born 9 September 1884 in Pulawi, Poland – died 14 October 1968 in Paris, France (aged 84)) was a French photographer based in Paris, France. She is most often credited as Genia Reinberg but signed her work with Génia Reinberg.

She was married to Arthur Reinberg and the couple had a son, Alain Reinberg (born in Paris on 4 November 1921 - died 26 November 2017) and a daughter, Nina Reinberg born 10 years earlier. She took the French nationality in 1924.

As a youngster, Alain was often a model for his mother’s photographic portraits. Some of Génia’s notable clients include British socialite Sir William Garthwaite and many notable French personalities –musician Henri Gil-Marchex; theater actors and producers Charles Dullin, Louis Jouvetand Michel Simon; painter Pierre-Eugène Montézin; novelists, poets and playwrights such as Anatole France and Jean Giraudoux; and German scientist Albert Einstein.

She contributed to French Vogue magazine in the 1920s.

In 1940, the German invasion of France causedthe Reinberg family to depart Paris and escape to the ‘free zone’of Lyon.
During the war, Alain wrote poems under the name of Alain Rimbert that were published in Porrentruy, Switzerland in 1945 in a collection entitled "French Poems Written in Switzerland at the Time of Exile".

In 1921 the famous British portraitist Madame Yevonde claimed to know only one professional portraitist in France, Génia Reinberg.
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Mother of : Alain Reinberg
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Source :
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Submitted by : bob (10481)
on : 20/01/2026
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Last updated on: 20/01/2026