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Trude Fleischmann and her career are true symbols for independence and emancipation of women. Being a Jewish woman in Austria of the 1920s she faced many challenges, however she established herself as a very versatile photographer, a profession that traditionally was only occupied by men. Her most known works are portraits of personalities such as Albert Einstein, Karl Kraus, and Adolf Loos. She caused uproar in the 1920s with a series of nude images that were part of a study of the movements of dancers.
After World War I she opened her own studio in Vienna and rapidly became one of Vienna’s leading portrait photographers. Her studio became a meeting point of the Vienna’s elite in art and culture. When Austria was forcefully re-integrated into Nazi-Germany during the Anschluss in 1938 the Jewish artist was forced to leave. After she spent time in Paris and London she moved to New York where she managed to successfully pick up her career.
20 years after she passed away the Wien Museum is dedicating a retrospective to her focusing on her time in Vienna. The exposition seeks to not only present her most known work but also unseen work to show her versatility and talent.
The very appropriate title “Der selbstbewusste Blick” (the confident glance) stands for her confidence to not only pursue passion for photography but also the courage to use her talent to make daring experiments in photography.
The Wien Museum is in possession of the biggest and most significant Fleischmann collection. The inauguration of the exposition was on January 27th and it will be open until May 29th.
For more information: http://www.wienmuseum.at/de/ausstellungen.html?tx_wxexhibition_pi1[showUid]=198&cHash=b75ed0ad58
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