Trude Fleischmann|Elegant silence in nude

Trude Fleischmann exhibition: Der selbstbewusste Blick

The Wien Museum is in possession of the biggest and most significant Fleischmann collection. The inauguration of the exposition was on January 27^th and it will be open until May 29^th.

More information to look at

 http://www.wienmuseum.at/de/ausstellungen.html?tx_wxexhibition_pi1[showUid]=198&cHash=b75ed0ad58

I definitely will go to the exhibition in April !!

Trude Fleischmann

B. 1895 Vienna, Austria, D.1990 Brewster, New York

Photographer

American, Austrian

"The Photographer of the Famous" is how Trude Fleischmann was known in her native Vienna. She had begun as an amateur at age nine after receiving a camera as a much longed-for Christmas gift. A portrait photographer for more than fifty years, Fleishmann's sitters included the sixteen-year-old actress Hedy Lamarr, conductor Arturo Toscanini, and architect Adolf Loos. Her Vienna studio became a gathering place for artists and intellectuals. She regarded herself not as an artist, but as a photographer. 

Before leaving Austria in the 1930s, Fleischmann inexplicably destroyed all but forty-one of her negatives. She settled in New York, where she resumed her portrait photography, working occasionally forVogue magazine. Among her more famous subjects were writer Sinclair Lewis and physicist Albert Einstein.