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Trude Fleischmann by Trude Fleischmann
Fleischmann, Trude (1895-1990), Austrian-born American photographer, born into a Viennese Jewish merchant family. She received her first camera aged 9, trained at the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt (1913-16), and for a while worked as a retoucher for Madame d'Ora. In 1920 she opened her own studio in Vienna, taking portraits of musicians, artists, writers, also dancers and actors in their stage roles. Her modernist approach, employing unusual angles and close-ups, matched the new market of illustrated magazines and secured her participation in important contemporary exhibitions. She emigrated in 1938, and between 1940 and 1969 ran a flourishing portrait and fashion studio in New York.
