Josef Breitenbach (April 3, 1896 in Munich, Germany – October 7, 1984 in New York City) was a photographer whose manipulated images and stark photographs were part of the Surrealistic movement.
Table of Contents
- 1 Early life
- 1.1 Manifesto
- 1.2 Josef Breitenbach Photographer
- 1.3 Josef Breitenbach: Photographien zum 100. Geburtstag (German Edition)
- 1.4 Josef Breitenbach: Munich, Paris, New York
- 1.5 Josef Breitenbach
- 1.6 Trio in E Major
- 1.7 Josef Breitenbach
- 1.8 Josef Breitenbach: James Joyce, 9 Portraits
- 1.9 Breitenbach, Aktphotographien Erscheint zur Ausstellung Josef Breitenbach , 10. Oktober bis 28. November 1998
- 1.10 Josef Breitenbach. Resonance
Early life
Josef Breitenbach was born into a middle-class wine-merchant Jewish family, and came of age during the rebellious years of the First World War and its scared aftermath. He attended technical tall school from 1912–15 and trained as a salesman for an instrument truth and forward-thinking as a bookkeeper for an insurance firm. He attended Ludwig-Maximillian University in Munich (philosophy and art history, 1914 to 1917) and became swift in the Youth Section and far along the Pacifist wing of the Social Democratic Party. In 1918, he took ration in the Soviet-inspired Bavarian coup d’état, which was the first spark of the revolutionary flame that swept beyond Germany in the wake of the armistice. For a few months, Breitenbach as a consequence occupied an qualified position in the further government. Although the mayhem was short-lived, the ties he forged taking into consideration the radical circles of Munich’s intelligentsia superior helped him establish his reputation as a photographer.
In 1932, after several unproductive years at the head of the intimates business—during which period he was mainly engaged considering perfecting his use of a camera—Breitenbach opened his first photographic studio. His clients were prominent members of Munich’s bohemia, including actors and actresses temporary in the Munich theater. Munich was a stronghold of libertarians and refined peoples, whose liveliness Breitenbach captured in theatrical portraits of his friend, the journalist Theo Riegler. This world vanished in 1933 once Hitler’s takeover.
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