Clemens Kalischer

Clemens Kalisz ( born March 30, 1921 in Lindau, on Lake Constance ) is an American photographer of German origin.

Life and work

The son of child psychologist Hans Kalisz spent his childhood in Nordhausen. 1930 considered the Jewish family to Berlin -Reinickendorf. In 1933 he emigrated to France, went to school there, was interned from 1939 in several camps. The family was able to escape with the aid of a charity in 1942 by Eleanor Roosevelt about Morocco in the United States. From 1944 to 1946 Kalisz studied art at the Cooper Union School in Manhattan. Since 1951 he lives in Stockbridge (Massachusetts ). In 1956 he married Angela Wottitz, they have two daughters.

Clemens Kalischer's career began with work for the New York Times, Newsweek, Boston Globe Magazine, and TIME Magazine. He became famous for his participation in the exhibition The Family of Man at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1955.

His work has been shown in Germany in the following exhibitions: Galerie argus photo art, Berlin (1998, 2002, 2006 and 2011 ), Willy- Brandt-Haus (Berlin 2002), Altona Museum (Hamburg 2002), Municipal Museum of Art ( Singing 2009), KZ Memorial Mittelbau Dora ( Nordhausen, 2011).

Collections

• Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
• Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Jewish Heritage and the International Center of Photography, New York
• Diaspora Museum, Tel Aviv
• Bayerisches National Museum, Munich

Publications

• " Clemens Kalisz New York -. Photographs 1947-1959 ", 2000 (edited by Sylvia Böhmer ) ISBN 3929203294
• " Clemens Kalisz ", published by Hatje Cantz, 2002 ( edited by Norbert Bunge and Denis Brudna ) ISBN 3775711295