Born 1904 in Hamburg, Germany
biography
1927
Travelled to Vienna, where he was taken up by Dr Eugenie Schwarzwald
1930
Assisted Man Ray in Paris for several months
1931
Moved to London
1932
Married Eva Boros
1934
Settled, with wife, in Belsize Park, north London
1937
Visited the industrial north of England for the first time
1938
'The Perfect Parlourmaid' appeared first in Verve magazine and then in Picture Post
1938
Brandt's second book, A Night in London, was published in London and Paris
1983
Died after a short illness
selected exhibitions
2021
Bill Brandt, Fundacion MAPFRE, Barcelona
2020
Bill Brandt/Henry Moore, Hepworth Wakefield
2013
Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2008
Private and Public: Class, Personality, Politics, and Landscape in British Photography, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Photographs by Bill Brandt: A Sense of Wonder, MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
2007
Oog/Eye, Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam
A Selection of Exceptional Vintage Photographs, Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL
VIP, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
2006
Busy Going Crazy, the Sylvio Perlstein Collection, La Maison Rouge, Paris
Making History - Art and Documentary in Britain from 1929 to Now, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (England)
Bill Brandt - A Retrospective, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
2005
Magritte Prive, BOZAR - Palais des Beaux-Arts/ Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels
De la comtesse De Castiglione a Cindy Sherman, Galerie de France, Paris
2004
Few Are Chosen: Street Photography and the Book, 1936-1966, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
The Artist Observed - Portraits and Self-Portraits, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2003
Flesh Tones - 100 Years of the Nude, Robert Mann Gallery, New York City, NY
Looking at Photographs - 125 photographs from the Muesum of Modern Art, New York, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Bill Brandt: A Retrospective, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT
2002
World War II: Vintage Photographs, Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA
Der Akt in der Kunst des 20, Jahrhunderts, Kunsthallein Emden, Emden
2001
The Fine Art of Photography, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Ediburgh (Scotland)
Known and Unknown, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
1998
In the Cold: Photography 1945 - 1965, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA