Josef Breitenbach
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Josef Breitenbach (1896 - 1984) was a German photographer. He was born in Munich to a middle-class family of Jewish descent. He attended Ludwig-Maximillian University in Munich (philosophy and art history, 1914 to 1917) and became active in the Youth Section and later the Pacifist wing of the Social Democratic Party.
Breitenbach opened a photographic studio in 1931, but the Nazis forced him to flee to Paris in 1933 where he opened a new studio. Breitenbach settled in a flat in Paris and befriended Joyce, Ernst, Brecht as well as the painter Kandinsky. He went from there to New York where he worked for the American press and taught at several schools including Black Mountain College and The New School for Social Research.
He is known for photos such as Dr Riegler and J Greno, Munich, 1933.
