50 Stunning Photos of German Supermodel Veruschka in the 1960s

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Born 1939 as Vera Gottliebe Anna Gräfin von Lehndorff-Steinort in Königsberg, East Prussia, German model, actress, and artist Veruschka studied art in Hamburg and then moved to Florence, where she was discovered at age 20 by the photographer Ugo Mulas and became a full-time model.

Veruschka in the 1960s

In 1961, Veruschka moved to New York City, but soon returned to Munich. For some time, she was with the Stewart Modeling Agency at 405 Park Avenue in New York where she reigned as the girl with the most covers on the wall when you walked in. She had also garnered attention when she made a brief five-minute appearance in the 1966 cult film Blow Up by Michelangelo Antonioni.

Veruschka was popular during the 1960s. She appeared on the cover of Life magazine’s August 1967 issue and various times on all four major Vogue magazines’ (American, Italian, French and British) covers throughout the 1960s. At her peak, she earned as much as $10,000 a day.

In 1975, however, she departed from the fashion industry due to disagreements with Grace Mirabella, the newly appointed editor-in-chief of Vogue. In a 1999 interview, Veruschka said about their disagreements, “She wanted me to be bourgeois, and I didn’t want to be that. I didn’t model for a long time after that.”

In 2010, at the age of 71, Veruschka modeled for Giles Deacon’s showing for the fall run of London Fashion Week. She appeared in the Resort 2018 lookbook for Acne Studios in 2017.

These stunning photos captured portraits of Veruschka as a model during the 1960s.