Brassai gyula halasz biography of barack

The four Brassaï photographs offered here and in lots 66 through 68, all originate from the private collection of Madame Brassaï, the.

Brassaï (Gyula Halász; – ) is a legend in the history of photography.

Brassaï was born Gyula Halász in in Brasov, Transylvania, a part of Romania which at the time belonged to Hungary.

Born as Gyula Halasz in the then Hungarian (now Romanian) town of Brasso in , he attended high school in Budapest and served in the.

In (he was still called Gyula Halasz then) he arrived in Paris as a young painter, fresh from his studies in the art academies of Budapest and Berlin.

Brassaï was born Gyula Halász in in Brasov, Transylvania, a part of Romania which at the time belonged to Hungary..

Brassai (Gyula Halasz) (1899-1984)

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Important Picture: Presentations at the Chez Suzy Brothel (1932)
Photographed by Brassai.

Biography

Born Gyula Halasz in what was then Brasov in Hungary (now Romania), he first went to Paris at the age of three when his father taught French literature at the Sorbonne.

Returning in 1904, he was educated in Brasso and in Budapest where he later studied painting and sculpture at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts (1918-1919).

In 1920, Brassai moved to Berlin, where he worked as a journalist for the Hungarian newspapers Keleti and Napkelet and also took classes at the Berlin-Charlottenburg Academy of Fine Arts (now Universitat der Kunste Berlin).

Here he met several noted expressionist painters including Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) and Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980), as well as the constructivist Moholy-Nagy (1895-194