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Adolphe Braun Biography
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Born: in Besançon, France
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1853 |
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Changed his career to photography after training as a fabric designer in Mulhouse and Paris, France
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1855 |
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Earned a medal at the Paris Exposition Universelle, Paris, France
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1859 |
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Awarded the French Legion of Honor, Paris, France
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1877 |
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Died: in Dornach, France
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1883 |
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Secured an exclusive thirty-year contract to photograph the art objects at the Louvre, Paris, France
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2008
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Landscapes Of Renoir, Philadelphia Museum, Philadelphia, PA
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2007 - 2008
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Alpine Panoramas highlights of Swiss Photography, Forum of Swiss history, Schwyz, Switzerland
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2000
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Image and Enterprise: The Photographs of Adolphe Braun, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (solo)
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1999
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Adolphe Braun: Fleurs Photographiées, Tonpeek Photography, Utrecht, The Netherlands (solo)
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1856
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Society of Arts Friends of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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1854
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Fleurs photographiées, Académie des Sciences, Paris, France (solo)
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SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
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Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
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| Literature |
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2000
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Maureen O'Brien. Image and Enterprise: The Photographs of Adolphe Braun. London, UK: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2000
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