Clemens Kalischer

The gallery founded by Clemens Kalischer in Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Clemens Kalischer (born March 30, 1921 in Lindau ; † June 9, 2018 in Lenox , Massachusetts ) was an American photographer of German origin.

life and work

The son of child psychologist Hans Kalischer spent his childhood in Nordhausen am Harz . In 1930 the Jewish family moved to Berlin-Reinickendorf in the White City . In 1933 he emigrated to France, went to school there and was interned in several camps from 1939. With the help of an aid organization run by Eleanor Roosevelt, the family was able to flee to the USA via Morocco in 1942 . From 1944 to 1946 Kalischer studied art at the Cooper Union School in Manhattan. From 1951 he lived in Stockbridge (Massachusetts) . In 1956 he married Angela Wottitz and they had two daughters.

Clemens Kalischer's career began working for the New York Times , Newsweek , Boston Globe Magazine and TIME Magazine . He became known for his participation in the exhibition The Family of Man at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1955 .

His work has been shown in Germany in the following exhibitions: Galerie argus fotokunst, Berlin (1998, 2002, 2006 and 2011), Willy-Brandt-Haus (Berlin 2002), Altonaer Museum (Hamburg 2002), Städtisches Kunstmuseum (Singen 2009), concentration camp - Mittelbau Dora Memorial (Nordhausen 2011), Emigration Center Bremerhaven 2014

Collections

Library of Congress , Washington DC
Museum of Modern Art , Metropolitan Museum of Art , Museum of Jewish Heritage and International Center of Photography , New York
Diaspora Museum , Tel Aviv
Bavarian State Museum, Munich

Publications

"Clemens Kalischer. New York - Photographien 1947-1959", 2000 (edited by Sylvia Böhmer) ISBN 3929203294
"Clemens Kalischer", Verlag Hatje Cantz, 2002 (edited by Norbert Bunge and Denis Brudna) ISBN 3775711295

Web links

Biography Clemens Kalischer (gallery argus fotokunst, Berlin)
Literature by and about Clemens Kalischer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Clemens Kalischer, acclaimed Stockbridge photographer, dies at 97. In: berkshireeagle.com. The Berkshire Eagle, June 12, 2018, accessed June 13, 2018 .
↑ See curriculum vitae in the photo volume edited by Norbert Bunge and Denis Brudna, as well as the website of the gallery argus fotokunst . There is also evidence of the photographs shown in collections.
↑ http://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de/ausstellung-der-sanfte-beobachter.1013.de.html?dram:article_id=291719

personal data
SURNAME	Kalischer, Clemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 30, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lindau
DATE OF DEATH	June 9, 2018
Place of death	Lenox , Massachusetts

[1] Clemens Kalischer, acclaimed Stockbridge photographer, dies at 97. In: berkshireeagle.com. The Berkshire Eagle, June 12, 2018, accessed June 13, 2018 .

[2] See curriculum vitae in the photo volume edited by Norbert Bunge and Denis Brudna, as well as the website of the gallery argus fotokunst . There is also evidence of the photographs shown in collections.

[3] ttp://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de/ausstellung-der-sanfte-beobachter.1013.de.html?dram:article_id=291719