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Bill Brandt   (British, 1904-1983) 

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Bill Brandt Biography
1904   Born in Hamburg, Germany
1927   Travelled to Vienna, where he was taken up by Dr Eugenie Schwarzwald
1930   Assisted Man Ray in Paris for several months
1931   Moved to London
1932   Married Eva Boros
1934   Settled, with wife, in Belsize park, north London
1937   Visited the industrial north of England for the first time
1938   'The Perfect Parlourmaid' appeared first in Verve magazine and then in Picture Post
1938   Brandt's second book, A Night in London, was published in London and Paris
1983   Died after a short illness
Selected Exhibitions
2008   Private and Public: Class, personality, Politics, and Landscape in British Photography, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2008   Photographs by Bill Brandt: A Sense of Wonder, MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
2007   Oog/Eye, Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam
2007   A Selection of Exceptional Vintage Photographs, Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007   VIP, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
2006   Busy Going Crazy, the Sylvio Perlstein Collection, La Maison Rouge, Paris
2006   Making History - Art and Documentary in Britain from 1929 to Now, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (England)
2006   Bill Brandt - A Retrospective, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
2005   Magritte Prive, BOZAR - Palais des Beaux-Arts/ Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels
2005   De la comtesse De Castiglione a Cindy Sherman, Galerie de France, Paris
2004   Few Are Chosen: Street Photography and the Book, 1936-1966, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
2004   The Artist Observed - Portraits and Self-Portraits, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2003   Flesh Tones - 100 Years of the Nude, Robert Mann Gallery, New York City, NY
2003   Looking at Photographs - 125 photographs from the Muesum of Modern Art, New York, The State Hermiatge Museum, St. Petersburg
2003   Bill Branft: A Retrospective, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT
2002   World War II: Vintage Photographs, Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA
2002   Der Akt in der Kunst des 20, Jahrhunderts, Kunsthallein Emden, Emden
2001   The Fine Art of Photography, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Ediburgh (Scotland)
2001   Known and Unknown, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
1998   In the Cold: Photography 1945 - 1965, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA

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