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Erwin blumenfeld lisa fonssagrives biography
Lisa Fonssagrives
Swedish model (–)
Lisa Fonssagrives (born Lisa Birgitta Bernstone;[4] 17 May – 4 February ), was a Swedish model, dancer, sculptor, and photographer.
She is widely credited with having been the first supermodel.[5][6][7]
Biography
Lisa Fonssagrives was born Lisa Birgitta Bernstone on 17 May in SwedenUddevalla.[3][4] As a child, she took up painting, sculpting and dancing.
She went to Mary Wigman's school in Berlin and studied art and dance. After returning to Sweden, she opened a dance school.[8] She moved from Sweden to Paris to train for ballet (after participating with choreographer Astrid Malmborg in an international competition) and worked as a private dance teacher with Fernand Fonssagrives,[8] which then led to a modeling career.[3] She would say that modeling was "still dancing".[9]
While in Paris in , the photographer Willy Maywald saw her in an