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Artist: Leopold Hugo (American, 1863-1933)
German-American photographer. Born in Poland before moving to La Jolla, California in 1907 with his wife. Opened a grocery store together before beginning career as a soft-focus Pictorialist photographer of landscapes and nature studies. Used wax-paper negatives to enhance the atmospheric effects in prints and had a studio in Santa Cruz, where he became locally known for his photographs of cypress and eucalyptus trees along the Monterey coast. Returned to La Jolla in 1929 and re-established a studio there until his death in 1933.