Rogi André (born Rozsa Klein, 10 August 1900, Budapest – 11 April 1970, Paris) was a Hungarian-born French photographer and artist.
In 1928, André produced her first nude photos and in 1936 some were published in Arts et Métiers Graphiques to which she had contributed from 1932, as well as to Paris Magazine and Verve, when she moved into a building on the Rue du Père-Cotentin to partner with two other photographers, Florence Henri and Ilse Bing.
"[3] She befriended the French and immigrant Surrealists including their leader André Breton for whom in 1934 she photographed Jacqueline Lamba‘s performances at Le Coliseum cinema and dance hall at 65 Rue de Rochechouart where several times a week she could be seen swimming naked.
[6] They include Pablo Picasso,[7][8] Aristide Maillol, Wassily Kandinsky (she also photographed him lying in state), Fernand Léger,[9] Florent Fels,[10] Balthus, Le Corbusier, René Crevel, Ambroise Vollard, Antonin Artaud, Colette, André Breton, Jacques Prévert, François Mauriac, Pierre Roy, Maria Elena Vieira da Silva, Oscar Dominguez, Julio Gonzales, Maurice Utrillo, Max Ernst, Henri Matisse, Peggy Guggenheim, Jean Lurçat, Chaim Soutine, Pierre Descaves, Roland Penrose, Jacques Lipchitz, Jean Cocteau, Georges Rouault, Marc Chagall, Maurice de Vlaminck, Luis Buñuel, André Gide, Pierre Reverdy, Jacques Villon, Raoul Dufy, Max Jacob, Alberto Giacometti,[11] Django Reinhardt, Jean Sablon, Marie Laurencin, Piet Mondrian, Nush Eluard, Marcel Duchamp, André Lhote, Pierre Loeb, Joan Miró,[12] Pierre Bonnard, Florence Henri, Natalia Gontcharova, Georges Braque,[13] and also André Derain, with prints of her 1939 portrait of him being held by MoMA[14] and London's National Portrait Gallery.
[15] By 1941 André had prospered, but because of World War II, she was forced to flee in the free zone and take refuge in Touraine because of her Jewish origins, but shortly after, she managed to hide in Paris, thanks to with the help of gallery owner Jeanne Bucher who hid her in her daughter's bedroom.
[22] From 1950, André resumed painting, though meanwhile showed in an international group exhibition of portrait photography in the Galeries Mazarine et Mansart of the Bibliothèque nationale, in 1961.