Clemens Kalischer

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Clemens Kalischer (born 1921 in Lindau, Germany) is a photographer in reportage and art photography. He emigrated to Paris via Switzerland 1933 and to the US via Casablanca 1942. Clemens Kalischer is a member of ASPP (American Society of Picture Professionals); a member of One by One (an international dialogue group between survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust) and worked as a freelance photographer of the New York Times, Newsweek, Life, Fortune, Du, The Sun, Yankee, Coronet, Country Journal, Moment, Vermont Life, In Context, Jubilee, Yes, Orion, Ploughshares, Common Ground, Architectural Forum, Places, Urban Design International, Progessive Architectural, and the TIME Magazine.

1 Selected exhibitions
2 Group Shows
3 Selected Solo Exhibits
4 Permanent Collections
5 Grants
6 Selected books
7 External links

[edit] Selected exhibitions

[edit] Group Shows

Museum of Modern Art (In & Out of Focus), New York 1948
Museum of Modern Art (The Family of Man), New York 1955
C.S. Exhibit (Man Alive), Wales
Montreal Expo (Camera as a Witness), Montreal 1967
"Exposition de la Photographie Francaise", Paris
Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Carl Siembab Gallery, Boston
"Photo Vision '75", Boston 1975
Smithsonian Institute (Portrait of America)
Smithsonian Institute (The Photographer and the City)
Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro
FotoFest, Houston 2002
Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin 2002
Altonaer Museum, Hamburg 2002

[edit] Selected Solo Exhibits

Durham Art Center, North Carolina
Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield
McCullough House, Bennington
Washington Art Association, Connecticut
Black Mountain College, North Carolina
ZONE, Springfield, MA
Brattleboro Museum, VT
argus fotokunst art gallery, Berlin 1998, 2002, 2006
Photography Gallery Prospekto, Vilnius 2006

[edit] Permanent Collections

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Library of Congress (Master Photographers), Washington, D.C.
Lawrence Art Museum Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Bavarian Museum, Munich
International Museum of Photography, New York, NY
The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis
Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, NY
Diaspora Museum, Tel Aviv

[edit] Grants

National Council of Churches
Experiment in International Living
Cambridge Seven Aquarium
Edwin Jaffe Foundation Grant for Holocaust Gathering
Frank Taplin Grant for "Institute for Urban Design"

[edit] Selected books

La Montagna Dell'Esodo, 1996 by Museo Nazionale Della Montagna ISBN 88-85903-60-6
Clemens Kalischer, 2004 published by Marval ISBN 2-86234-377-3
Clemens Kalischer New York - Photographien 1947-1959, 2000 (by Sylvia Böhmer) ISBN 3-929203-29-4
Clemens Kalischer, 2002 (by Norbert Bunge & Denis Brudna) Published by Hatje Cantz ISBN 3-7757-1129-5