| |  | Leopold quickly adapted to the life as a photographer to the upper echelon of society, a tradition that his uncle Charles had established in 1850. He was so dedicated to the Reutlinger Studio that his father gave the business to Leopold in 1890, after he had run it for 10 years. |  |
Leopold followed in what his father and uncle had done but went even further. He produced a large number of images of famous people, Paris stage stars and actresses.
He used the famous cabaret and theatres as his studio:
The casino, the Paris, the Moulin Rouge, The Folies Bergere, the Opera and the Olympia. | 
| | | Elise De Vère in a typical Reutlinger Art Nouveau overlay | | | |
At that time the art nouveau movement was flourishing. It was named after the art atelier in Paris from Sigfried Bing “L’art Nouveau, Maison Bing”.
This was the high point and most popular level. It was in this period that Leopold introduced a new style of merging photographic images, mostly from famous stars, with art nouveau fantasy overlays.
These were made even more beautiful by hand tinting the images. | |
 | The Jugendstill is what Reutlinger Studios became famous for, and still is! These images were not cheaply produced, nor sold! These became the great success of Reutlinger.
Thousands of art nouveau postcards were produced, mostly printed by S.I.P, the house editor for Reutlinger. | | lovely Cléo De Merode art nouveau masterpeace | |
Leopold retired in 1930, after loosing an eye in an accident with a champagne cork. He died in 1937 in Paris at the age of 74.  | With Leopold’s death it was the end of the Reutlinger Studios but not of the Reutlinger photographs. A lot of them were produced on postcards and we are now able to collect and admire them so we can imagine ourselves being part of glamorous Paris in the early 1900s. |  |
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