Else Thalemann

This article is about the German photographer born in 1901. For the German photographer born in 1910, see Elsa Thiemann.

Else Thalemann (29 March 1901– 19 October 1984) was a German photographer.

Career

She was born Else Moosdorf March 29, 1901.[1][2] During the 1930s Thaleman was employed as a photojournalist in Berlin.[3] Around the same period she was employed by Ernst Fuhrmann to photograph the structure of plants.[4] She is reported to have abandoned photography in 1938 when Fuhrmann moved to the United States.[4] Her Berlin photography studio was destroyed by bombing during the second world war.[3][4] She died October 19, 1984, in Stift Lauterbach, Germany.[2]

Collections

Her work is included in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston,[5] the Art Institute of Chicago,[6] the Getty Museum, Los Angeles,[3] the International Center of Photography,[4] the National Gallery of Art, Washington,[7] the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,[8] and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.[9]

References

  1. ^ Stamm, Rainer (11 April 2016). Der Folkwang Verlag - Auf dem Weg zu einem imaginären Museum (in German). Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 978-3-11-093777-0.
  2. ^ a b Frauenmosaik: Frauenbiographien aus dem Berliner Stadtbezirk Treptow-Köpenick (in German). Trafo. 2001. ISBN 978-3-89626-343-8.
  3. ^ a b c "Else Thalemann (German, 1901 - 1984) (Getty Museum)". The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles.
  4. ^ a b c d "Else Thalemann". International Center of Photography. 2 March 2016.
  5. ^ "Else Thalemann: Tubosaurus, No. 30914". mfah.org.
  6. ^ "Else Thalemann". The Art Institute of Chicago. 1901.
  7. ^ "Artist Info". www.nga.gov.
  8. ^ "Laternenputzer". www.metmuseum.org.
  9. ^ "Industrie Ruhgebiet | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org.


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