TRUDE FLEISCHMANN* (Vienna 1895 - 1990 Bewster, NY) Albert Einstein, 1930s gelatin silver print 25,3 x 20 cm ESTIMATE € 600 - € 1200 STARTING PRICE € 600 Trude Fleischmann was an Austrian-American photographer. She studied art history in Paris for a semester as a teenager and then completed three years of photography training at the k. u. k. Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt für Photographie und Reproduktionsverfahren (Imperial and Royal Teaching and Research Institute for Photography and Reproduction processes). At the age of 21, she did an internship with the adored Viennese photographer Madame d'Ora, who, however, classified the young woman as phlegmatic and threw her out after two months of stupid retouching work. Fleischmann worked for Hermann Schieberth for three years before moving into her own studio in the 1st District. Fleischmann saw herself as an artist, not a craftswoman: she loved portraits, personal pictures without stiff poses that emphasised social status. She maintained close contact with customers from the dance, theatre and art worlds, with Adolf Loos, Karl Kraus, Alban Berg; especially to Max Reinhardt's Theater in der Josefstadt, to Paula Wessely or Helene Thimig. Fleischmann kept her portraits relatively conventional. Her work from the 1920s was created primarily in the studio, with artificial light and a glass plate camera. At this point, she was only taking pictures outdoors for travel reports; But then - technically in vogue - with a two-eyed Rolleiflex. In the 1930s, Fleischmann was also inspired by the New Vision and experimented with bird's-eye views or unusual image details. However, her relationship to modernity was more reflected in her preference for unconventional contemporaries, for the women's rights activists Marianne Hainisch and Rosa Mayrede or the dancer Grete Wiesenthal. Claire Bauroff photographed her in 1925 as a muscular nude with ancient, marble-like skin. Fleischmann's view of the female nude was in contradiction to the male gaze. Under the influence of the life reform movement, she interpreted nudity and nude dancing as a rebellion against the narrowness of traditional conventions. After the annexation, the Jewish woman Trude Fleischmann temporarily fled to Paris to stay with friends, but returned to Vienna until a former intern got her a visa for the USA. In 1940, Fleischmann opened a studio for fashion and portrait photography in Manhattan. She photographed for magazines such as Vogue and portrayed exiles, e.g. Albert Einstein. Her works were later purchased by the Metropolitan Museum, MoMA, the New York Public Library and the Leo Baeck Institute. Further artists and styles: Dora Kallmus, Hermann Schieberth, Stefan Zweig, Max Reinhardt, Bruno Walter, portrait photography, nude photography PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13%, for photographys 20%, is added to the sum of the highest bid and, the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.