Josef Breitenbach - Munich, Paris, New York

Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, 2003. First edition. Stiff wrappers.

Condition: Like new.

Exhibition catalogue. Breitenbach lived a peripatetic life. Born in Germany, he was educated in Munich and began his career there. The rise of the Nazis forced him to flee to Paris, where he eked out a living taking studio portraits. His portraits of such figures as James Joyce, Max Ernst, and Bertolt Brecht were taken during this brief, tumultuous period. With the ascension of the Vichy Government, Breitenbach had to flee again, this time just barely making it to the United States, where he spent the rest of his life.