Isabelle Weingarten (1950-2020) *70

was a French actress, model, and photographer. Weingarten was born on 18 April 1950 in Paris into a family of artists. She was the granddaughter of Silvia Loeb-Luzzatto and art dealer Pierre Loeb on her maternal side. On her paternal side, her grandparents were the Polish painter Joachim Weingart and the sculptor Muriel Marquet-Pontrémoli.

Discovered in 1971 by Robert Bresson, who offered her the main role in Four Nights of a Dreamer. Subsequently, she starred in The Mother and the Whore in 1973, directed by Jean Eustache. A longtime photographer, she began working for Cahiers du Cinéma in 1986 as a portrait painter, and photography became her main activity. In 2008, she began studying the works of her father, Romain Weingarten, poet and playwright.