Gallery Talk: Trude Fleischmann as Family Photographer
In this unique and highly personal conversation,Trude Fleischmann’s cousins Barbara R. Loss and Dr. Henry Rosenberg, as well as Heike Herrberg, her biographer, speak in the gallery about Fleischmann’s photographs of friends and family, both those taken pre-war in Austria and post-war in Connecticut. They will also unpack the familial and personal relationships revealed in the photographs.
About the Exhibition: Austrian-born Trude Fleischmann (1895-1990) was one of the most accomplished female photographers of the 20th century. After great success in Vienna in the 20s photographing artists, models, and performers, she fled the Anschluss in 1938, first to Paris and then New York. She opened a studio on Fifth Avenue in 1940 and photographed many of the artists and intellectuals of the day, including Eleanor Roosevelt and Albert Einstein. This exhibition will include loans from the Wien Museum in Vienna, Austria, private collections, and the New York Public Library, as well as never-before-exhibited works from family collections.
Image: Trude Fleischmann, Brooklyn Bridge, ca. 1945, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of Peter Modley. © Trude Fleischmann