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Erich Salomon
German
1886–1944
About the Artist
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Lore Feininger. Erich Salomon. 1929. Gelatin silver print, 9 1/8 x 6 1/2" (23.2 x 16.5 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Thomas Walther Collection. Gift of Thomas Walther (MoMA 1668.2001) - Alternate Name(s) Erich Franz Emil Salomon (Birth Name)
Meeting Points
- Cultural Hubs Berlin
- Publications Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, 1917–31 Vogue, 1892–1949 Das deutsche Lichtbild, 1927–38 Vu, 1928–31
Artist Chronology
| April 28, 1886 |
Born
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Berlin |
| 1913 |
Receives his doctorate in law
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Rostock |
| September 1914–1918 |
Held in a prisoner of war camp for three and a half years. Released in Switzerland after suffering from a nervous breakdown
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France |
| 1919–33 |
Lives in Berlin
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Berlin |
| 1926–27 |
Sells photographs to newspapers owned by Ullstein Verlag
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Berlin |
| 1926 |
Purchases a large format Contessa Nettel camera for his work at Ullstein
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Berlin |
| November 26, 1926 |
Publishes a photograph for the first time, in Berliner Morgenpost
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Berlin |
| 1927–33 |
Uses a middle-format Ermanox camera
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Berlin |
| 1928–29 |
Secretly takes courtroom photographs during famous trials, even going so far as to hide the camera under his hat
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Berlin |
| 1928–33 |
Publishes extensively in Münchner Illustrierte Zeitung, Uhu, Die Dame, Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung, Das Illustrirte Zeitung, The New York Times Magazine, Time, and Fortune
Salomon works under contract with Berliner Illustierte Zeitung and the Associated Press.
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New York Munich Berlin |
| January 1930 |
Attends the second Hague Conference
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The Hague |
| Spring 1930 |
Buys a Leica small-format camera, which he uses in combination with the Ermanox
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Berlin |
| March–September 1930 |
Travels to the United States
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Los Angeles |
| 1930 |
Visits Marlene Dietrich at the Biltmore Hotel. Photographs from this trip are published in Ullstein's Blatt der Hausfrau
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Los Angeles |
| 1931 |
Publishes Famous Contemporaries in Unobserved Moments
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Stuttgart |
| January 17–June 1932 |
Travels again to the United States, this time bringing more equipment, including darkroom chemicals
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District of Columbia New York Los Angeles San Francisco Chicago |
| August 1933 |
Included in the "List of Foreigners and Jews" banned from working in the German press, which is published in the Nazi-run newspaper Deutsche Nachrichten
Affiliated: Erich Salomon, Yva (Else Simon)
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Berlin |
| 1933–44 |
Begins working almost exclusively with the Leica camera
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The Hague |
| 1933–39 |
Continues contributing to the international press
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The Hague |
| 1934–38 |
Experiments with color films, papers, and transparencies
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The Hague |
| June 1939 |
Sells several hundred photographs, mostly landscapes, to the City Archive of the Hague
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The Hague |
| 1940–43 |
He and his family live underground
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The Netherlands |
| 1943 |
Sent to a detention center in Westerbork
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Westerbork |
| January 18, 1944 |
Sent to Theresienstadt
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Theresienstadt |
| May 16, 1944 |
Sent to Auschwitz
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Auschwitz |
| July 7, 1944 |
Executed at Auschwitz
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Auschwitz |
