Val Telberg

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Val Telberg
Born(1910-02-14)February 14, 1910
Moscow, Russia
Died1995(1995-00-00) (aged 84–85)
Southampton, New York
Known for painting, photography
Movement surrealism

Val Telberg (born Vladimir Telberg-von-Teleheim on February 14, 1910, in Moscow, Russian Empire; died 1995, Southampton, New York) was a Russian-born American artist best known for his photomontages.

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Biography

His family moved to China in 1918 and he spent most of his youth there. [1] He received a bachelor of science degree in chemistry from Wittenberg College in 1932. [1] He returned to China, but would emigrate to the United States in 1938. [1]

He studied painting at the Art Student's League, New York, in 1942, where he was exposed to the surrealism movement and experimental film-making. It was here he met his future first wife, Kathleen Lambing (more famous as Kathleen Haven, the name she took after her second marriage), who taught him photography. [1] [2]

For his first professional job in photography, Telberg was a portrait photographer, taking portraits of nightclub patrons in Florida and later Massachusetts. [3] [1] In 1945, he returned to New York and began to create photomontages through double exposure; many of these images had a surreal, dreamlike quality. [3] In 1948, the Brooklyn Museum of Art held an exhibition of the photomontage works he produced with his wife. [4]

In 1987, he had a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. [5] His work is held by the Museum of Modern Art, [6] the J. Paul Getty Museum, [7] the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, [8] and the Whitney Museum of American Art. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Hostetler, Lisa (2018-06-10). "Val Telberg". International Center of Photography. Retrieved 2022-01-13. Cites: Handy et al. Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the International Center of Photography Collection, New York: Bulfinch Press in association with the International Center of Photography, 1999, p. 229.
  2. 1 2 "Val Telberg | Portrait of Kathleen Haven". Whitney Museum of American Art. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
  3. 1 2 Ogard, Anita. "Val Telberg". Museum of New Mexico . Archived from the original on 2008-04-09. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
  4. ↑ "Photographs by Kathleen & Vladimir Telberg-von-Teleheim: Surrealistic Photography (Press Release)". Brooklyn Museum. 1948. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
  5. ↑ "Val Telberg: Recent Works in Photomontage". Museum of Contemporary Photography. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
  6. ↑ "Val Telberg. Seine. 1952-54". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
  7. ↑ "Val Telberg (American, born Russia, 1910 - 1995)". The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
  8. ↑ "Telberg, Val". SFMOMA. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
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