Kathy Pinna
Candyman's Son Candid As Camera Handyman
The following article appeared in The Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, Ohio) on Saturday, September 25, 1948:
Sharp Shots in Harper's
Karl Bissinger, son of Fred Bissinger, proprietor of a candy shop in the Hotel Metropole, has son some honors for half a dozen of his photographs printed in the September issue of Harper's Bazaar. A photograph of Bissinger accompanies an article about him in The Editor's Guest Book in the current issue.
Bissinger, who passed his boyhood in Cincinnati, attended Walnut Hills High School, then transferred his energy and talent to the Cincinnati Art Academy where he studied with the later Myer Abel. Continuing his studies at the New York Art Academy, he gained wide recognition for his paintings. However, he gave up paintin as a profession to open an antique shop in New York. Tiring of that, he sold out, visited Cuba and Haiti last winter, wnet on to Florida to see his father who was vacationing there, and then, last spring, sailed for France.
Bissinger found a "calling" really to his liking and inter in roving over Europe with his camera. He crossed the Pyrenees and then went on to Rome and Capri. His striking full[page picture of gypsy cave homes in the hills outside of Granada accompanies an article in Harper's Bazaar by Charles Wertenbaker entitled "A Tourist in Spain". With this, too, is a picture of Lola Medina, star gypsy dancer, and two of her assisting entertainers.
Bissinger's four other pictures are of "Great Ladies of Madrid Society." A glamorous full-page is of the Marqusa De Casa Valdes, daughter of the Marques De Aranda, a grandee of Spain. Others are of the Marquesa De Lianzol, daughter of a former Minister from Mexico to Spain; Marquesa De Apezteguia, who husband is Prince Renato Pignatelli; and Blanca De Borbon; Condesa De Velayos, daughter of the former Duke of Seville and a sitant cousin of the late king.
His last letter to his father in Cincinnati arrived a couple of months ago, and at that time the roving former Cincinnatian and his camera were in Paris.
Sharp Shots in Harper's
Karl Bissinger, son of Fred Bissinger, proprietor of a candy shop in the Hotel Metropole, has son some honors for half a dozen of his photographs printed in the September issue of Harper's Bazaar. A photograph of Bissinger accompanies an article about him in The Editor's Guest Book in the current issue.
Bissinger, who passed his boyhood in Cincinnati, attended Walnut Hills High School, then transferred his energy and talent to the Cincinnati Art Academy where he studied with the later Myer Abel. Continuing his studies at the New York Art Academy, he gained wide recognition for his paintings. However, he gave up paintin as a profession to open an antique shop in New York. Tiring of that, he sold out, visited Cuba and Haiti last winter, wnet on to Florida to see his father who was vacationing there, and then, last spring, sailed for France.
Bissinger found a "calling" really to his liking and inter in roving over Europe with his camera. He crossed the Pyrenees and then went on to Rome and Capri. His striking full[page picture of gypsy cave homes in the hills outside of Granada accompanies an article in Harper's Bazaar by Charles Wertenbaker entitled "A Tourist in Spain". With this, too, is a picture of Lola Medina, star gypsy dancer, and two of her assisting entertainers.
Bissinger's four other pictures are of "Great Ladies of Madrid Society." A glamorous full-page is of the Marqusa De Casa Valdes, daughter of the Marques De Aranda, a grandee of Spain. Others are of the Marquesa De Lianzol, daughter of a former Minister from Mexico to Spain; Marquesa De Apezteguia, who husband is Prince Renato Pignatelli; and Blanca De Borbon; Condesa De Velayos, daughter of the former Duke of Seville and a sitant cousin of the late king.
His last letter to his father in Cincinnati arrived a couple of months ago, and at that time the roving former Cincinnatian and his camera were in Paris.
