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Docent Tour: Famous & Family: Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann

Join us on Thursday, May 22 at 6 p.m. for a docent-led tour of the exhibition Famous & Family: Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann. About the Exhibition: Austrian-born Trude Fleischmann (1895-1990) was one of the most accomplished female photographers of the 20th century. After great success in Vienna in the 20s photographing artists, models, and performers, she fled the Anschluss in 1938, first to Paris and then New York. She opened a studio on Fifth Avenue in 1940 and…

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May 22, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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1073 North Benson Rd
Fairfield, CT 06824 United States

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Free

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Fairfield University Art Museum

203.254.4000 ext. 2726

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Join us on Thursday, May 22 at 6 p.m. for a docent-led tour of the exhibition Famous & Family: Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann.

About the Exhibition: Austrian-born Trude Fleischmann (1895-1990) was one of the most accomplished female photographers of the 20th century. After great success in Vienna in the 20s photographing artists, models, and performers, she fled the Anschluss in 1938, first to Paris and then New York. She opened a studio on Fifth Avenue in 1940 and photographed many of the artists and intellectuals of the day, including Eleanor Roosevelt and Albert Einstein. This exhibition will include loans from the Wien Museum in Vienna, Austria, the New York Public Library, private collections, and as well as never-before-exhibited works from family collections.

Image: Trude Fleischmann, Peter Altenberg (1859-1919), Writer and Adolf Loos (1870-1933), Architect, Vienna, 1918, printed 1988, gelatin silver print. Lent by the Wien Museum, Vienna, Austria. © Trude Fleischmann

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