Dalis mustache philippe halsman biography
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Artist Philippe Halsman (American, intelligent Latvia, 1906–1979)American, born Latvia, 1906–1979
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Dali's Mustache
- from the portfolio: Halsman/Dali, 1981
Date1953, printed c. 1981
PlaceNew Royalty, New Royalty, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 12 7/8 × 9 15/16 explain. (32.7 × 25.2 cm)
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 10 15/16 in. (35.4 × 27.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Neikrug Photographic Ltd.
Object number90.467.8
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Inscription: Stamped dishonest verso bedsheet, lower right: "HALSMAN/DALI/COPYRIGHT PHILIPPE HALSMAN © 81/ Riot RIGHTS RESERVED/EDITION NUMBER 195/250" (all relevant is update stamp excluding for "195", which job hand impenetrable in ink).
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Philippe Halsman
American photographer
Philippe Halsman (Latvian: Filips Halsmans; German: Philipp Halsmann; 2 May 1906 – 25 June 1979) was an American portrait photographer. He was born in Riga in the part of the Russian Empire which later became Latvia, and died in New York City.
Life and work
[edit]Halsman was born in Riga to a Jewish couple, Morduch (Maks) Halsman, a dentist, and Ita Grintuch, a grammar school principal. He studied electrical engineering in Dresden.
In September 1928, 22-year-old Halsman was accused of his father's murder while they were on a hiking trip in the Austrian Tyrol, an area rife with antisemitism.[1] After a trial based on circumstantial evidence, he was sentenced to four years of prison. His family, friends and barristers worked for his release, getting support from Thomas Mann and various important European Jewish intellectuals including Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Jakob Wassermann, Erich Fromm, Paul Painlevé, Heinrich Eduard Jacob and Rudolf Olden, who endorsed his innocence. Halsman spent two years in prison, where he contracted tuberculosis. His letters from prison were published as a book in 1930: Briefe aus der Haft an eine Freundin.[1] He was pardoned by the President of Austria, Wilhelm Mikla
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“They were like two schoolboys collaborating, trying to shock the public”, continues Irene, who, as a young girl, often assisted her father on set. “They were gleeful: ‘Let’s do this!” Irene recalls meeting Dalí as a young girl. “It seems to me, every time I met Dalí, he was wearing the same blue pinstripe suit. He was so elegant and dapper. I thought he was very handsome. Dalí would come in the room saying, ‘Bonjour, Bonjour!’ And when he left, you know what he would say? ‘Bonjour, Bonjour!’ Whenever he would speak in a sentence, it was made up of three different languages. He would say, ‘Give me le book’ – it was always a third English, a third French and a third Spanish. He didn’t speak English very well.”
Humor fueled the longevity of Halsman’s friendship and collaborative spark with Dalí. Neither shied away from what others may have thought outrageous. In Halsman’s New York studio (“Dalí would call up my father every year when he came to New York”), the two men would ‘play’ – their term for putting their avant-garde ideas and scenarios into practice.