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This landmark show will present over 100 photographs by the Austrian-born photographer Trude Fleischmann (1895-1990), one of the most accomplished female photographers of the 20th century. The show, the first solo museum exhibition of the photographer’s work to be presented in the United States, will highlight Fleischmann’s groundbreaking career in Vienna during the 1920s and 1930s, as well as her influential work in the United States after her emigration in 1939.

At just 25 years old, Fleischmann opened her own studio in Vienna and achieved great success as a photographer. She became known for photographing artists, dancers, actors, and other key cultural figures of the era. When the Nazis invaded during the 1938 Anschluss, she fled first to London and then to New York. She opened a studio just behind Carnegie Hall on 56th Street in 1940 and photographed many of the artists and intellectuals of the day, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Albert Einstein.

Lenders to the exhibition include the Wien Museum in Vienna, Austria, the New York Public Library, and private collectors. Importantly, it will also feature never-before-exhibited works from the Fleischmann and Cornides family collections, as well as the family collection of her student and life-long friend, photographer Helen Post (1907-1979). Together, these works provide an unprecedented and intimate view of the photographer’s personal and professional legacy.

Trude Fleischmann, Sandra and Barbara with Golden Heart Necklaces, 1951, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of Barbara Rosenberg Loss. © Trude Fleischmann