André Kertész/Still Life
André Kertész
1981
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View on museum website →Medium
portfolio of 10 gelatin silver prints
Dimensions
overall: 45.72 × 38.1 × 6.35 cm (18 × 15 × 2 1/2 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Susan and Peter MacGill
Accession Number
2014.146.5.1-10
About the Artist
André Kertész
André Kertész, born Andor Kertész on July 2, 1894, in Budapest, Hungary, to a middle-class Jewish family, initially pursued a conventional path as a clerk at the Budapest Stock Exchange after graduating from the Academy of Commerce in 1912. Self-taught in photography after purchasing his first camera that year, he captured his early poetic visions of Hungarian landscapes and peasant life, includin...