Chez Mondrian, Paris
André Kertész
1926
Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 24.8 × 18.9 cm (9 3/4 × 7 7/16 in.) sheet: 25.3 × 20.4 cm (9 15/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Nancy Jane and Alan Shestack
Accession Number
2020.155.5
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
André Kertész · 1894–1985
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...