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Else Thalemann

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

Career

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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

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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

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  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.