Val Telberg

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Val Telberg
BornFebruary 14, 1910
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 Empire-born American artist best known for his photomontages.

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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]

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  2. 1 2 "Val Telberg | Portrait of Kathleen Haven". Whitney Museum of American Art. Retrieved 2022-01-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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