Kary H Lasch

He is known for his photographs of famous people like Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Federico Fellini, Sofia Loren, and Brigitte Bardot.

Few are aware of his profession's wide range and scope: fashion, racing cars, bullfighting, art, travel, and industrial photography, to mention just a few.

In the 1920s, in the light of French photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue and "La Belle Époque" a high standard of living, and the Industrial Revolution, his family apparently adopted all the ingredients.

They lived in Prague and had a mansion in Kutná Hora (Kuttenberg) with a tiny railroad in their garden that led to the music pavilion where they entertained the socialites.

Max Lasch, Kary's father, and his Austrian wife Margarethe and family were wealthy until 1938, when the Germans invaded and ended the First Czechoslovak Republic.