JOSEF BREITENBACH (1896-1984)
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2013 Gitterman Gallery, New York
2008 Gitterman Gallery, New York
2005 Memorial de la Shoah, Paris
2004 Center for Creative Photography, Tucson
2004 The Towers, Dublin
2004 Camera Work, Berlin
2003 Josef Breitenbach: Munich, Paris, New York, Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago
2001-2002 Josef Breitenbach, 1896-1984, Une Photographie impure, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône
2001 Galerie 1900 – 2000, Paris
2001 Photographs by Josef Breitenbach, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
2000 Photographs by Josef Breitenbach, Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock
1998 Galerie Bodo Niemann, Berlin
1998 Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta
1996-1997 Josef Breitenbah, Photographien, Retrospektive zum 100. Geburtstag, Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich
1996 Galerie Bodo Niemann, Berlin
1996 Josef Breitenbah, Photographien, Retrospektive zum 100. Geburtstag, Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle
1996 Houk Friedman Gallery, New York
1996 Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts
1996 Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
1995 Peconic Gallery, Riverhead, New York
1993 Houk Friedman Gallery, New York
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1993 Hirschl & Adler Gallery, New York
1991 Hirschl & Adler Gallery, New York
1988 Parkerson Gallery, Houston
1987 Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago
1987 Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
1986 Stadtmuseum, Munich
1983 Stadtmuseum, Munich
1979 Stadtmuseum, Munich
1973 50 Photos by Josef Breitenbach, Goethe House, New York
1971 Dartmouth College, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Hannover,
New Hampshire
1965 Wanderung – 250 Photographien 1930 bis 1965 von Josef Breitenbach, Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich
1961 New School for Social Research, New York
1960 The Newark Museum
1954 Josef Breitenbach: Korea, Limelight Gallery, New York
1950 Portraits and Landscapes by Josef Breitenbach, The Brooklyn Museum, New York
1950 Pictorial Photographs, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
1948 A-D Gallery, New York
1947 Photography by Josef Breitenbach, A-D Gallery, New York
1944 Black Mountain College, N.C.
1938 Louvre Museum, Paris
1935 Portraits, scenes et paysages de Josef Breitenbach, Galerie Fernand Nathan, Paris
1934 Josef Breitenbach: Portraits, paysages, theater, Galerie de la Pléade, Paris
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Selected Group Exhibitions:
2010 Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris, International Center for Photography, New York
2009 Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris, The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville
2000 Chorus of Light, Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
2000 The Century of the Body, Photoworks, 1900-2000, Musée de L’Éysée, Lausanne
1998 Exiles and Emigres, Nationalgalerie, Staaliche Museen zu Berlin
1997 Exiles and Emigres, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
1989 150 Years of Photography, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
1988 Evocative Presence, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1998 Masters of the PFA, International Center of Photography, New York
1987 Preoccupation, Victoria and Albert Museum
1983 Die Stiftung Josef Breitenbach, Fotomuseum im Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich
1979 Die Sammlung Josef Breitenbach zur Geschichte der Photographie, Fotomuseum im Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich
1967 Photography in the Fine Arts V, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1965 Adventures in India, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1965 Internationale Aktfotos, Salon International de Photographie, Munich
1964 World Fair, Kodak Pavilion, New York
1964 International Photography Exhibition, Hamburg
1964 Photography in the Fine Arts IV, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1962 Photography in the Fine Arts III, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1960 Photography in the Fine Arts II, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Josef Breitenbach bio page 4
1959 Camera out of Doors, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1958-1959 Photography from the Museum’s Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1955 The Family of Man, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1952 Photography: Then and Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1952 International Photography Exhibition, Lucerne
1951 A Century of Portrait Photography (The Breitenbach Collection), The Brooklyn Museum, New York
1951 Abstraction in Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1950 Color Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1949 Camera out of Doors, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1949 Exhibition of the American Society of Magazine Photographers (ASMP), New York
1948 In and Out of Focus: A Survey of Photography Today, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1947 15 Years of Modern Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1942 Artists in the War, ACA Gallery, New York
1939 London Salon of Photography, Royal Photographic Society
1938 Art Libre d’Allemagne, Maison de la culture, Paris
1938 London Salon of Photography, Royal Photographic Society
1937 Troisième Salon international de la photographie Focus, Amsterdam
1936 31e Salon international de la photographie, Société française de photographie, Paris
1936 Exposition international de la photographie Contemporaine, Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris
1935 London Salon of Photography, Royal Photographic Society
1935 30e Salon international de la photographie, Société française de photographie, Paris
1935 La publicité par la photographie, Galerie de La Pléiade, Paris
1935 Documents de la vie sociale, Section photographique de l’AEAR, Galerie de La Pléiade, Paris Josef Breitenbach bio page 5
1935 L’humour et la fantastique par la photographie, Galerie de La Pléiade, Paris
1934 Groupe annuel des photographes, Galerie de La Pléiade, Paris
1934 29e Salon international de la photographie, Société française de photographie, Paris
1933 Comité français pour la protection des intellectuels juifs persecutes, Librairie Lipschutz, Paris
1933 Internationale Ausstellung Luzern, Bronze Medal
1933 Internationale Ausstellung Karlsbad, First Prize
Monographs:
2013 Josef Breitenbach: Resonance, Temple Rock Company
2008 Josef Breitenbach: Manifesto, Nazraeli Press
2004 Breitenbach, Galerie Camera Work
2004 James Joyce 9 Portraits, Jurys Doyle
2003 Josef Breitenbach: Munich, Paris, New York, Stephen Daiter Gallery
2001 Josef Breitenbach, Les Editions de l’Amateur
2001 Im Auge des Exils, Josef Breitenbach und die Freie Deutsche Kulture in Paris 1933-1941, Aufbau-Verlag
1998 Josef Breitenbach: Aktphotographien, Galerie Bodo Niemann
1996 Josef Breitenbach, Photographien, Schirmer/Mosel
1986 Josef Breitenbach, Photographer, Temple Rock Company
Collections:
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Museum, Mills College, Oakland
Australia National Gallery, Canberra
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
The Brooklyn Museum, New York
Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal Josef Breitenbach bio page 6
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson
Detroit Institute of Arts
Field Museum, Chicago
High Museum, Atlanta
International Center of Photography, New York
J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie
Mead Art Center, Amherst
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Müncher Stadtmuseum, Munich
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur Saône, France
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Portrait Gallery, Washington
New York Public Library
Neue Galerie, New York
New Orleans Museum of Art
New York Public Library
Rodin Museum, Paris
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Staaltliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle
Victoria and Albert Museum, London