Trude Fleischmann

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The photographer around 1930

Trude Fleischmann (born December 22, 1895 in Vienna , † January 21, 1990 in Brewster , New York) was an Austrian-American photographer .

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Trude Fleischmann came from a middle-class, assimilated Jewish family. After graduating from high school , she briefly studied art in Paris . From 1913 to 1916 she completed an apprenticeship at the graphic teaching and research institute in Vienna. After a brief internship with Madame d'Ora , she completed her professional training in Hermann Schieberth's (1876–1948) studio . At the beginning of 1920 she opened her own studio near the Vienna City Hall .

Fleischmann quickly became one of the most sought-after portrait photographers in Vienna. In her studio she made recordings of numerous well-known personalities from society, art and culture, including Peter Altenberg , Gustinus Ambrosi , Alban Berg , Wilhelm Furtwängler , Karl Kraus , Hedy Lamarr , Adolf Loos , Tilly Losch , Alfred Polgar , Max Reinhardt , the Thimig acting dynasty , Hilde Wagener , Bruno Walter , Paula Wessely , Grete Wiesenthal and Stefan Zweig . Dance and nude recordings were also made. Fleischmann became famous with her nude photographs of the dancer Claire Bauroff, which were perceived as scandalous . Fleischmann's photographs were also printed in all major magazines, including Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung , Die Bühne , Die Dame , Moderne Welt , Wiener Bilder , Wiener Magazin and Wiener Mode .

From the mid-1930s she also turned to landscape and homeland photography.

After Austria's “ annexation ” to the German Reich , Fleischmann managed to escape in September 1938 with the help of the American photographer Marion Post Wolcott , with whose sister Helen she had studied in Vienna; first to Paris, then to London and finally to New York . In 1940 she opened a photo studio in Manhattan. In her new home - she received US citizenship in 1942 - she photographed well-known artists and intellectuals, including Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi , Albert Einstein , Otto von Habsburg , Oskar Kokoschka , Lotte Lehmann and Arturo Toscanini .

In 1969 Fleischmann retired from professional life and moved to Lugano . In 1988 she returned to the United States, where she died two years later.

In 2016 the Trude-Fleischmann-Gasse in Vienna- Donaustadt ( Seestadt Aspern ) was named after her. In the same year Anna Auer produced the short film Trude Fleischmann - A film essay (26 minutes). The film is underlaid with the interview that Auer conducted with Ms. Fleischmann on March 16, 1986 in Lugano (original voice).

estate

It is assumed that many of the recordings, with the exception of 41 plate negatives, were lost as a result of the escape and the complete destruction of her studio in the Second World War . Nonetheless, her remaining recordings are in renowned collections, including those of MoMA . of the Metropolitan Museum of Art , the New York Public Library , the Leo Baeck Institute and the Getty Museum in LA In Austria, the Wien Museum Karlsplatz, the Theater Museum and the Fotografis Collection of Bank Austria have photographs by Fleischmann from the period up to 1938.

exhibition

  • 1982 Trude Fleischmann - retrospective. Portraits of Famous People , Bank Austria
  • 1988 Trude Fleischmann. Photographs 1918–1938, Galerie Faber, Vienna
  • 2011 Trude Fleischmann: The self-confident gaze , Wien Museum Karlsplatz, Vienna

literature

  • Anna Auer; Carl Aigner; Trude Fleischmann. Photographs 1918–1938 . Galerie Faber, Vienna 1988, exhibition catalog
  • Anna Auer: Trude Fleischmann - “This is how I took photos with a pounding heart”. Interview. In: Anna Auer: Photography in conversation, Dietmar Klinger Verlag, Passau 2001, pp. 102–109. ISBN 3-932949-11-0
  • Anton Holzer , Frauke Kreutler (ed.): Trude Fleischmann - The self-confident gaze , Hatje Cantz Verlag, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-902312-21-1

Web links

Commons : Trude Fleischmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Seidl: Photographing in an Austrian-American context. In: Between culture and culture. Böhlau, Vienna 2001, p. 74
  2. ^ MoMA collection
  3. ↑ Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art
  4. ^ Collection of the Leo Baeck Institute
personal data
SURNAME Fleischmann, Trude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-American photographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1990
Place of death Brewster (New York)