Josef Breitenbach

♂ *1896-1984 / Germany / USA

Works

Contacts for the work of Josef Breitenbach

Steichen Collections LU

Steichen Collections
Château de Clervaux
9712 Clervaux
00352-929657
fom@cna.etat.lu
steichencollections-cna.lu
Mar-Dec: Wed-Sun 12-18

Solo exhibitions

Photographs

AMW Gallery, Birmingham (US)
30 Oct 2014 – 30 Dec 2014
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Gitterman Gallery, New York (US)
10 Sep 2013 – 2 Nov 2013
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Gitterman Gallery, New York (US)
18 Sep 2008 – 22 Nov 2008
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CAMERA WORK, Berlin (DE)
18 Sep 2004 – 30 Oct 2004

Group

The Space Between Us. / L'Espace entre nous

A Journey into the Masterpieces of the Michael G. Wilson Collection

LE BAL, Paris (FR)
19 Jun 2026 – 3 Jan 2027

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Bill Brandt, Horace Bristol, Esther Bubley, Elinor Carucci, Mark Cohen, John Coplans, Gregory Crewdson, Imogen Cunningham, Bruce Davidson, Rineke Dijkstra …
THE FAMILY OF MAN

UNESCO Memory of the World

Steichen Collections, Clervaux (LU)
18 Mar 2026 – 29 Dec 2026

with Ansel Adams, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Erich Andres, Emmy Andriesse, Diane Arbus, Allen Arbus, Eve Arnold, Richard Avedon, Ruth-Marion Baruch, Lou Bernstein, Eva Besnyoe …
Was America

Rolla Foundation, Bruzella (CH)
30 May 2026 – 25 Oct 2026

with Anonymous, Richard Avedon, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Margaret Bourke-White, Maureen Gallace, Frank Gohlke, Anthony Linck, Philip Rolla, Fabio Tasca, Edward Weston
Influence and Identity

Twentieth Century Portrait Photography from the Bank of America Collection

Nassau County Museum, New York (US)
21 Mar 2026 – 12 Jul 2026

with Berenice Abbott, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1. Earl of Snowdon, Richard Avedon, Brassai, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Arnold Crane, Robert Cumming, Paul Cunningham, Pepe Diniz, Gisele Freund, Lee Friedlander …
In the Lights of Shadows

Meisterwerke der Sammlung SpallArt

Forum für Fotografie, Köln (DE)
1 Nov 2025 – 17 Jan 2026

with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Werner Bischof, Marilyn Bridges, Harry Callahan, Paul Caponigro, Lucien Clergue, Ralf Cohen, Harold E. Edgerton, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Eliot Elisofon, Walker Evans …
FOTOGAGA. Max Ernst and Photography

A Visit from the Würth Collection

Museum für Fotografie, Berlin (DE)
18 Oct 2024 – 27 Apr 2025

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Eugene Atget, Hans Bellmer, Aenne Biermann, Karl Blossfeldt, Bill Brandt, Brassai, Claude Cahun, Denise Colomb, Alfred Ehrhardt, Max Ernst, Heinz Hajek-Halke …
FOTOGAGA. Max Ernst and Photography

A Visit from the Würth Collection

Museum für Fotografie, Berlin (DE)
18 Oct 2024 – 27 Apr 2025

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Eugene Atget, Hans Bellmer, Aenne Biermann, Karl Blossfeldt, Bill Brandt, Brassai, Claude Cahun, Denise Colomb, Alfred Ehrhardt, Max Ernst, Heinz Hajek-Halke …
Picture Windows: Photographs from the Collection

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (US)
17 Feb 2024 – 28 Jul 2024

with Wynn Bullock, Imogen Cunningham, John Divola, Lee Friedlander, Justin Kimball, O. Winston Link, Danny Lyon, Alen MacWeeney, Gordon Parks, John Pfahl, Aaron Siskind, Ming Smith …
Influence & Identity

Twentieth Century Portrait Photography from the Bank of America Collection

Irish Museum Modern Art, Dublin (IE)
25 May 2023 – 8 Oct 2023

with Berenice Abbott, Shigeo Anzai, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1. Earl of Snowdon, Richard Avedon, Brassai, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Arnold Crane, Robert Cumming, Imogen Cunningham, Pepe Diniz, Gisele Freund …
Artist Complex / Künstler Komplex

Platen Collection / Sammlung Platen

Museum für Fotografie, Berlin (DE)
29 Jun 2018 – 7 Oct 2018

with Berenice Abbott, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Dieter Appelt, Ilse Bing, Lillian Birnbaum, Kurt Blum, Brassai, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Denise Colomb, Imogen Cunningham, Pierre Descargues, Robert Doisneau …
Black Mountain College

Scenius and Synchronicity - Selected Photographs

Galerie Sabine Knust, München (DE)
9 Sep 2016 – 22 Oct 2016

with Harry Callahan, Clemens Kalischer, Nancy Newhall, Xanti Schawinski
Trees

Rolla Foundation, Bruzella (CH)
13 Jun 2015 – 15 Nov 2015

with Robert Adams, Eugene Atget, Simone Casetta, Vincenzo Castella, Mario Giacomelli, Fritz Henle, John Hilliard, Clemens Kalischer, Gerhard Kurtz, Anna Leader, Giovanni Luisoni, Anna Meschiari …
Summer Exhibition

Gitterman Gallery, New York (US)
9 Jul 2015 – 28 Aug 2015

with Roswell Angier, Adam Bartos, Ferenc Berko, Machiel Botman , Roger Catherineau, Lois Conner, Debbie Fleming Caffery, Allen Frame, Oliver Gagliani, Richard Gordon, Kenneth Josephson, Gita Lenz …
Solarized

Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York (US)
19 Nov 2014 – 28 Feb 2015

with Ferenc Berko, Erwin Blumenfeld, Pierre Boucher, Marcel Bovis, Annemarie Heinrich, Rolfe Horn, Irina Ionesco, Herbert Matter, Osamu Shiihara, Maurice Tabard, Edmund Teske, Todd Walker
»Love«

CAMERA WORK, Berlin (DE)
6 Dec 2014 – 14 Feb 2015

with Anderson & Low, Diane Arbus, Harry Benson, Thomas Billhardt, Nick Brandt, Brassai, Rene Burri, Cornell Capa, Michel Comte, Robert Doisneau, David Drebin, Frantisek Drtikol …
LOLA GARRIDO COLLECTION

A Portable History of Photography.

The Pushkin State Museum, Moscow (RU)
14 Oct 2014 – 18 Jan 2015

with Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Lillian Bassman, Cecil Beaton, Edouard Boubat, Bill Brandt, Julia Margaret Cameron, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Martin Cole, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Philip-Lorca diCorcia …
New York Photography 1890-1950

Von Stieglitz bis Man Ray

Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg (DE)
17 May 2012 – 2 Sep 2012

with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Ferenc Berko, Ruth Bernhard, Ilse Bing, Margaret Bourke-White, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Jerry Cooke , Ralston Crawford, Imogen Cunningham, Jerry Dantzic, Harold E. Edgerton …
Picturing The Artist

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle (US)
14 Mar 2011 – 1 Jul 2012

with Imogen Cunningham, Bruce Davidson, Walker Evans, Lee Friedlander, Arnold Newman
American Photography

From Berenice Abbott to Alec Soth

Kunsthandel Jörg Maass, Berlin (DE)
20 May 2011 – 17 Jun 2011

with Berenice Abbott, Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Lewis Baltz, Ilse Bing, Margaret Bourke-White, Michael Callaghan, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Louis Faurer, Andreas Feininger, Robert Frank …
Working Shifts: Photography from the Collection

Queens Museum of Art, New York (US)
4 Apr 2010 – 31 Dec 2010

with Berenice Abbott, Felice Beato, Peter Henry Emerson, Roger Fenton, Jean Louis Garnell, Fritz Henle, Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, Pedro Meyer, Dulce Pinzon, Sylvia Plachy, Herbert G. Ponting …
NUDES - Positions of Nude Art Photography

NUDES - Positionen der Aktphotographie

CAMERA WORK, Berlin (DE)
3 Jul 2010 – 28 Aug 2010

with Lola Alvarez Bravo, Guido Argentini, Richard Avedon, Lillian Bassman, Werner Bischof, Erwin Blumenfeld, Bill Brandt, Harry Callahan, Lucien Clergue, Frantisek Drtikol, Ralph Gibson, Horst P. Horst …
Aspects of European Photography, circa 1930

Kunsthandel Jörg Maass, Berlin (DE)
14 May 2010 – 11 Jun 2010

with Ilse Bing, Katt Both, Bill Brandt, Lyonel Feininger, Hans Finsler, Arvid Gutschow, Raoul Hausmann, Fritz Henle, Florence Henri, Hilde Hubbuch, Lotte Jacobi, Pierre Jahan …
Nude Visions

150 Jahre Körperbilder in der Fotografie

Museum Kunst & Gewerbe, Hamburg (DE)
29 Jan 2010 – 25 Apr 2010

with Atelier Manassé (Olga Spolarics + Adorján von Wlassics), Andre Kertesz, Lehnert & Landrock , Herbert List, Rita McBride, Floris Neusuess, Helmut Newton, Wilhelm (Guglielmo) von Plueschow, Gerhard Riebecke, Helmut Roettgen, Thomas Ruff, Bert Stern …
La photographie n’est pas l’art,

collection Sylvio Perlstein

MAMCS Strasbourg, Strasbourg (FR)
5 Feb 2010 – 24 Apr 2010

with James Abbe, Berenice Abbott, Adel Abdessemed, Vito Acconci, Eugene Atget, Robert Barry, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Bill Beckley, Hannes Beckmann, Vanessa Beecroft, Hans Bellmer, Ilse Bing …
Nude Visions - 150 Jahre Körperbilder in der Fotografie

Münchner Stadtmuseum, München (DE)
27 May 2009 – 4 Oct 2009

with Atelier Manassé (Olga Spolarics + Adorján von Wlassics), Auguste Bellocq, Francis Bruguire, Gertrude Fehr, Vincenzo Galdi , Andre Gelpke, Fritz Henle, Marta Hoepffner, Louis Igout, Andre Kertesz, Germaine Krull, Helmut Lederer …
SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHS From Brassaï to Cindy Sherman

From Brassaï to Cindy Sherman

Kunsthandel Jörg Maass, Berlin (DE)
15 May 2009 – 26 Jun 2009

with Berenice Abbott, Robert Adams, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Bill Brandt, Brassai, Harry Callahan, Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Eggleston, Andreas Feininger, Robert Frank …
Stilles Leben

Wenn die Dinge träumen – Aufnahmen aus der Sammlung 1910 -2008

Münchner Stadtmuseum, München (DE)
10 Oct 2008 – 15 Mar 2009

with Berenice Abbott, Joachim Brohm, Peter Keetman, Franz Lazi, Herbert List, Floris Neusuess
Photo20esimo

maestri della fotografia del XX secolo

Museo d'Arte, Lugano (CH)
5 Oct 2008 – 11 Jan 2009

with Berenice Abbott, Paola Agosti, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Arthur Ann Segan, Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, David Bailey, Gian Paolo Barbieri, Olivo Barbieri, Gabriele Basilico, Irene Bayer …
L'Eternel Féminin

Muestra Colectiva de Fotografia.

Kowasa Gallery, Barcelona (ES)
14 Jun 2007 – 30 Jul 2007

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Ramón Battles, Thierry Béringer, Ferenc Berko, Josep Bou, Bill Brandt, Toni Catany, Jordi Cuxart, Alfonso De Castro, Frantisek Drtikol, Grancel Fitz, Ralph Gibson …
Human Interest: Photoessays from the Collection

CCP Center Creative Photo, Tucson (US)
9 Feb 2007 – 27 May 2007

with Richard Avedon, Andreas Feininger, Gisele Freund, Aaron Siskind, W. Eugene Smith, Peter Stackpole, Dan Weiner, Garry Winogrand
Sus ojos les delatan

Fundacion Foto Colectania, Barcelona (ES)
22 Nov 2006 – 24 Mar 2007

with Berenice Abbott, Nobuyoshi Araki, Gabriele Basilico, Karl Blossfeldt, Bill Brandt, Julia Margaret Cameron, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gregory Crewdson, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Harold E. Edgerton …
Couples: The Art of Connection

Stephen Daiter, Chicago (US)
5 Jan 2007 – 3 Mar 2007

with Eugene Atget, Lee Balterman, Lou Bernstein, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Barbara Crane, Paul D'Amato, Jack Delano, Elliott Erwitt
Portraits im Aufbruch

Photographie in Deutschland und Österreich 1900-1938

Albertina, Wien (AT)
1 Jul 2005 – 9 Oct 2005

with Marianne Breslauer, Hugo Erfurth, Lotte Jacobi, Helmar Lerski, Madame d'Ora (Dora Kalmus), Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, August Sander, UMBO (Otto Umbehr)
Portraits of an Age: Photography in Germany and Austria, 1900-1938

Neue Galerie New York, New York (US)
11 Mar 2005 – 6 Jun 2005

with Marianne Breslauer, Hugo Erfurth, Helmar Lerski, Madame d'Ora (Dora Kalmus), August Sander, UMBO (Otto Umbehr)
Photographs

Wako Works of Art, Tôkyô (JP)
8 Jul 2003 – 30 Aug 2003

with Gerhard Richter, Thomas Ruff, Gregor Schneider, Thomas Struth, Wolfgang Tillmans, Christopher Williams
The Family of Man

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
24 Jan 1955 – 8 May 1955

with Ansel Adams, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Erich Andres, Emmy Andriesse, Diane Arbus, Allen Arbus, Eve Arnold, Richard Avedon, Ruth-Marion Baruch, Hugh Bell , Wermund Bendtsen …
Abstraction in Photography

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
2 May 1951 – 4 Jul 1951

with Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Allen Arbus, Ferenc Berko, Erwin Blumenfeld, Mathew B. Brady, Alexey Brodovitch, Francis Bruguire, Harry Callahan, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Ralston Crawford …
Color Photography

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
9 May 1950 – 4 Jul 1950

with Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon, Erwin Blumenfeld, Harry Callahan, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Harold Corsini, Ralph Crane, Ted Croner, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Loomis Dean, Howard Dearstyne …

Events

THE PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW

presented by AIPAD 2024

AIPAD, New York (US)
25 Apr 2024 – 28 Apr 2024

with Berenice Abbott, David Alekhuogie, Rogi André, Ljubodrag Andric, Dieter Appelt, Diane Arbus, Tom Arndt, Richard Avedon, Edouard Baldus, Roger Ballen, Mary Ellen Bartley, Lillian Bassman …
Photography / Fotografie

Palais Dorotheum, Wien (AT)
25 Oct 2021 – 3 Nov 2021

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Werner Bischof, Margaret Bourke-White, Jaroslav Brabec, Bill Brandt, Guenter Brus, Cornell Capa, Jewgeni Chaldej, William Claxton, Lucien Clergue, Bruce Davidson, Peter Dressler …
AIPAD Photography Show New York 2018

Kunsthandel Jörg Maass, New York (US)
5 Apr 2018 – 8 Apr 2018

with Robert Adams, Harry Callahan, William Eggleston, Andreas Feininger, Robert Frank, Heinrich Heidersberger, Charles Johnstone, Peter Keetman, Edmund Kesting, Gunther Keusen, Hannes Kilian, Siegfried Lauterwasser …
Photography Auction

Bassenge Fotoauktionen, Berlin (DE)
6 Dec 2006

with Ansel Adams, Bourne & Shepherd, Brassai, William Eggleston, Hans Finsler, Francis Frith, Candida Hoefer, Peter Keetman, Germaine Krull, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Alexander Rodchenko, Bert Stern
Bassenge Photography Auction 86

Bassenge Fotoauktionen, Berlin (DE)
21 Nov 2005 – 5 Dec 2005

with Berenice Abbott, Eugene Atget, Edouard Baldus, Margaret Bourke-White, Bill Brandt, Adolphe Braun, Louis-Emile Durandelle, Candida Hoefer, David Octavius Hill, Dorothea Lange, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Annie Leibovitz …