Opening Lecture: Famous & Family: Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann

Curator Frauke Kreutler joins us from Vienna to introduce the first-ever monographic exhibition of Trude Fleischmann’s work in the United States. Kreutler curated the major 2011 Fleischmann retrospective at the Wien Museum. Join us on Thursday, May 1 at 5 p.m. in the New Dolan School of Business, Event Hall for this extraordinary event.

About the Exhibition: Austrian-born Trude Fleischmann (1895-1990) was one of the most accomplished female photographers of the 20th century. After great success in Vienna in the 20s photographing artists, models, and performers, she fled the Anschluss in 1938, first to Paris and then New York. She opened a studio on Fifth Avenue in 1940 and photographed many of the artists and intellectuals of the day, including Eleanor Roosevelt and Albert Einstein. This exhibition will include loans from the Wien Museum in Vienna, Austria, the New York Public Library, private collections, and as well as never-before-exhibited works from family collections.

This event forms part of the Edwin L. Weisl, Jr. Lectureships in Art History, funded by the Robert Lehman Foundation. The event will also be livestreamed.