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Ernst Haas

(American/Austrian, 1921–1986)

Ernst Haas

London Docks, 1951

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Ernst Haas

Albert Einstein, Princeton, New Jersey, 1951

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Ernst Haas

Route 66, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1969

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Locksmith's Sign, NYC, 1952

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Leaves and Shadows, Vienna, 1946

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Peeling Paint, USA, 1962

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Hyde Park, 1949

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Piccadilly Circus, 1949

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Speaker's Corner, London, 1949

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Ranuncukus, NY Botanical Gardens, 1974

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Violas, Colorado, 1983

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Rodeo, Madison Square Garden, New York, 1957

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Po Valley, Italy, 1970

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Bridge, Venice, Italy, 1976

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Chard

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Flowers, 1960

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Calla Lilly, Munich, 1982

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Rose, 1970

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Wet Leaf, Vermont, 1969

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Leaves 2, USA, 1960

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Ernst Haas

Priest, Positano, Italy, 1953

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Ernst Haas

Queen’s Coronation Street Party, London, 1952

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Biography

Timeline

1921: Born on March 2 in Vienna, Austria
1935 - 1938: Attended highschool at the LEH Grinzing in Vienna
1939: Received diploma from the Rainier Gymnasium, Vienna
1941: Entered the Graphische Lehr und Versuchsanstalt (Graphic Arts Institute) in Vienna; left after one semester
1943 - 1945: Worked in a photographic studio in Vienna
1949: Began working for Heute, and offered a job as staff photographer by LIFE magazine, which he declined
Joined Magnum magazine instead
1950 - 1958: Photographs for LIFE magazine
1951: Won Gold Medal Art Directors Club of New York for Essay on New York
1952: Honor Roll, American Society of Magazine Photographers
1953: Traveled to Asia to cover the Vietnam war
1954: Leavitt Award, American Society of Magazine Photographers
1955: Traveled to Indonesia
1958: The Art Directors Club Medal Special Award, Art Directors Club of New York
: Newhouse Award, Syracuse University
: Shot movie stills for The Misfits
1960: Gold Medal, Art Directors Club of New York
1961: Gold Medal, Art Directors Club of Philadelphia
1962: Medal for Architectural Photography, The American Institute of Architects
1963: Silver Medal, Designers & Art Directors Association of London
1967: Newhouse Award, S.I. Newhouse Citation, Syracuse University
1968: Indian government invited him to visit and document the plight of Tibetan refugees
1971: Honor Roll, American Society of Magazine Photographers
1972 - 1974: First assignment for Marlboro cigarettes, an account that would continue for 12 years
1972: American Society of Magazine Photographers Honor Roll
Der Kulturpreis der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Photographie (German Photographic Society)
1973: Ehrenzeichens in Gold, Bundeskammer der Gewerblichen Wirtschaft, Wien
1976: Kodak Fotobuchpreis for IN DEUTSCHLAND
1977: Produces larger color print ever produced until this time an 18-by-60-foot print Impalas Grazing at Grand Central Station
1978: Wilson Hicks Award, University of Miami
1979: Executive Chamber Citation, State of New York
1980: Merit Award, Art Directors Club of New York
1982: Annual Playboy Editorial Award
1983: Award of Distinctive Merit, Society of Publication Design XVII
1985: The Photographic Administrator AWard for Creative Achievement
Honorary Master of Science in Professional Photography, Brooks INstitute, Santa Barbara, CA
1986: Ema and Victor Hasselblad Foundation Gold Medal and Photographic Prize
Leica Medal of Excellence: Master of Photography
Goldens Verdienstkreuz des Landes Wien, Austria
The Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography
: Died of a stroke on September 12.

Exhibitions

2001: Ann Shanks Gallery, Sheffield, Mass. ERNST HAAS: COLOR AND BLACK AND WHITE.
2000: Soho Triad Fine Arts, New York. ERNST HAAS : NEW YORK.
: Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, Maine. PHOTOGRAPHING MAINE: 1840–2000.
Leica Gallery, New York, PHOTOGRAPHING AUSTRIA.
International Center of Photography, New York, REFLECTIONS IN A GLASS EYE, Works from the International Center of Photography Collection.
Brooke Alexander, New York, PHOTOGRAPHS OF NEW YORK.
Whitney Museum of Art, New York, EDWARD STEICHEN, Haas photographs included in the partial recreation of the Family of Man Exhibition.
1998: Michael Hoppen Photography, London, U.K. ONLY TIME WILL TELL. 1999 Connoly's, London, U.K. CONTOUR AND COLOUR: ERNST HAAS AN EXHIBITION OF COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY
1997: Uma Gallery, New York City. MATERS IN PHOTOGRAPHY: Alfred Eisenstaedt, Ernst Haas, Andre Kertesz, Eugene Smith, Roman Vishniac 1999 Ann Shanks Gallery, Sheffield, Massachusetts, ERNST HAAS AND W.EUGENE SMITH
1995: Barcelona, Spain. POSTWAR EUROPE, 1945–1965. ART AFTER THE FLOOD.
G.Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. ACT II: KISSING
1994: Paris, London, MAGNUM AND THE CINEMA.
USA and Europe. MAGIC MOMENTS, 40 YEARS OF LEICA PHOTOGRAPHY.
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City. APPEAL TO THIS AGE: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, 1954–1968
: A.O.I. Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico. REDISCOVERY OF A NEW VISION. (solo)
Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, D.C. ERNST HAAS IN BLACK AND WHITE.
Etherton Gallery, Tucson, Arizona. ERNST HAAS IN BLACK AND WHITE.
1993: The Camera Obscura Gallery, Denver, Colorado. ERNST HAAS IN BLACK AND WHITE.
1992: International Center of Photography, Midtown. ERNST HAAS IN BLACK AND WHITE
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City. American Photographs 1950-1975 1993 A.O.I. Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico. UNPUBLISHED BLACK AND WHITE IMAGES.
1988 - 1989: New York, International Center of Photography. MASTER PHOTOGRAPHS FROM "PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE FINE ARTS" EXHIBITIONS, 1959–1967.
1987: Paris, Palais de Tokyo. LE TEMPS D'UN MOUVEMENT: AVENTURES ET MESAVENTURES DE L'INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHIQUE. Organized by the Centre National de la Photographie.
: Gothenborg, Sweden. Rshsska Konstslsjdmuseet. ERNST HAAS.
: Hanover, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College. IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING, YES.
1986: Rochester, Rochester Institute of Technology. TO SEE, TO BE. (solo)
Houston, Larry Kauffman Galleries. ERNST HAAS PHOT0GRAPHS.
Newton Upper Falls, Mass., Silver Visions Gallery. ERNST HAAS.
Vienna, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts. 1921 ERNST HAAS 1986.
1985: New York, Pace/McGill Gallery. PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE MAGNUM ARCHIVES 1932–1967.
Beijing, Workers' Cultural Palace. NEW YORK - THE CITY AND ITS PEOPLE.
: Santa Barbara, Calif., Western States Museum of Photography. ERNST HAAS.
1984: St. Louis Botanical Garden (solo)
1983 - 1985: Vienna, Graz, and Linz; Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum und Kunstlerhaus, and Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz. GESCHICHTE DER FOTOGRAFIE IN ·STERREICH. (The History of Photography in Austria).
1983: Vienna, Stadthalle. FOTOGRAFIE 83.
1982: Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; Rochester, New York, International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House. COLOR AS FORM: A HISTORY OF COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY.
: Salzburg, Galerie Fotohof. ERNST HAAS: HEIMKEHRER. (Returning Soldiers).
1980 - 1981: New York, International Center of Photography; Tucson, University of Arizona; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Long Beach, The Art Galleries, California State University; Wilmington, Delaware Art Museum.
1980: S?o Paulo, Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo. FOTOGRAFIA ARTE E USO (Photography, Art, and Usage).
Cologne, Photokina. GLANZLICHTER DER PHOTOGRAPHIE: 30 JAHRE PHOTOKINA BILDERSCHAUEN. (Highlights of Photography: 30 Years of Looking at Pictures).
Princeton, The Squibb Gallery. I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC.
: Minneapolis, Elayne Art Gallery. THE CREATION. (solo)
1979: New York, Fifth Avenue stores. CELEBRATION: NEW YORK IN COLOR.
Innsbruck, Linz, Graz, and Vienna; Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Neue Galerie am Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts. PHOTOGRAPHIE ALS KUNST 1879–1979, KUNST ALS PHOTOGRAPHIE 1949–1979.
Venice. VENEZIA '79: LA FOTOGRAFIA. Exhibited at various locations throughout the municipality.
1978: New York, The Museum of Modern Art. MIRRORS AND WINDOWS: AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY SINCE 1960.
: Cologne, Photokina. IN DEUTSCHLAND. (solo)
New York, Space Gallery. THE CREATION AND OTHER DYES. (solo)
1977: Milan, Sezione Culturale, Comune di Milano. SICOF' '77.
1976 - 1977: Madrid, La Fotogalerâa. ERNST HAAS.
1976: New York, Space Gallery. ERNST HAAS.
New York, International Center of Photography, and Port Washington Public Library. ERNST HAAS: AN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE.
: Cologne, Kunsthalle Kslnischer Kunstverein Forum. PHOTOKINA: WELTMESSE DER PHOTOGRAPHIE.
Vienna, Rathaus, Volkshalle. REFLECTIONS: IMAGES OF AMERICA.
1975 - 1976: New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery. COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY: INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS, 1850–1975.
1975: New York, Austrian Institute. ERNST HAAS: POSTWAR PHOTOGRAPHS 1945–1949.
1974: Vienna, Kulturhaus der Stadt Graz im Steirischen Herbst '74, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts. KREATIVE FOTOGRAFIE AUS ·STERREICH.
1973: Jerusalem, The Israel Museum. THE CONCERNED PHOTOGRAPHER 2. Organized by Cornell Capa in cooperation with The International Fund for Concerned Photography and traveled throughout Europe and the United States.
Hamburg, 3. WELTAUSTELLUNG DER PHOTOGRAPHIE: UNTERWEGS ZUM PARADIES. (3rd World Exhibition of Photography: The Path to Paradise).
: Eisenstadt, Landesgalerie im Schloss Esterhazy. ERNST HAAS: HEIMKEHRER. (Returning Soldiers).
Vienna, ·sterreichisches Museum fÄr Angewandte Kunst. ERNST HAAS: DIE SCHOPFUNG. (The Creation).
Vienna, ·sterreichisches Museum fÄr Angewandte Kunst. ERNST HAAS: DIE SCHOPFUNG. (The Creation). (solo)
1972 - 1973: London, Camden Arts Center. PHOTOGRAPHY INTO ART: AN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHY. Sponsored by The Arts Council of Great Britain.
1972: Vienna and Graz, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts; Kulturhaus, Kulturamt der Stadt Graz. ERNST HAASÑNACHKRIEG. (After the War).
Cologne, Photokina. ERNST HAAS: DIE SCH·PFUNG. (The Creation).
1971: New York, Rizzoli Gallery. THE CREATION. (solo)
1968 - 1971: New York, Asia House Gallery. ANGKOR AND BALl: TWO WORLDS OF ERNST HAAS. Under the auspices of The American Federation of Arts traveled to Allingdale, Mich., Grand Valley State College; Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum; Columbia, Mo., Stephens College; Canada, University of Manitoba; Kent, Conn., Kent BoysÕ School; Fayetteville, University of Arkansas.
1967: Ottawa, The National Gallery of Canada. PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE 20TH CENTURY. Organized by The George Eastman House of Photography and traveled to Saskatoon, The Mendel Art Center; Sherbrooke, Quebec, Sherbrook? University Art Gallery; Kingston, The Agnes Etherington Art Center, Queens University.
1966: Lincoln, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska. AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY: THE SIXTIES.
1965: New York, Gallery of Modern Art. IPEX.
: THE ART OF SEEING. An exhibition organized by Kodak that traveled to Mexico, England, France, Germany, Austria, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Finland, Southeast Asia, Japan, and Brazil.
1964: St. Louis, Steinberg Hall, Washington University. ERNST HAAS / COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY.
New York, The IBM Gallery. POETRY IN COLOR. (solo)
: Hamburg, Kunsthallen und Kulturinstituten. WELTAUSSTELLUNG DER PHOTOGRAPHIE. (World Exhibition of Photography).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art. THE PHOTO ESSAY.
1963: ERNST HAAS WORLD OF COLOR, One-man show sponsored by Eastman Kodak, Exhibited on five different continents.
1962: New York, The Museum of Modern Art. ERNST HAAS: COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY.
Sponsored by Manchini Newspaper, Japan, ERNST HAAS: COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY.
1960: Cologne, Germany, Photokina. ERNST HAAS.
: THE WORLD AS SEEN BY MAGNUM PHOTOGRAPHERS. Organized by Magnum Photos with the cooperation of the Mainichi Newspapers of Japan and circulated throughout the world.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE FINE ARTS.
1959: Rochester, George Eastman House. PHOTOGRAPHY AT MID-CENTURY.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE FINE ARTS. 1960 New York, The Museum of Modern Art. THE SENSE OF ABSTRACTION IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY.
1957 - 1958: New York, The Museum of Modern Art. SEVENTY PHOTOGRAPHERS LOOK AT NEW YORK.
1955: New York, The Museum of Modern Art. THE FAMILY OF MAN.
Paris, Grand Palais. BIENNALE DE LA PHOTO ET DU CIN°MA DE PARIS.
1953: New York, The Museum of Modern Art. POSTWAR EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHY.
1951: New York, The Museum of Modern Art. MEMORABLE LlFE PHOTOGRAPHS.
1947: American Red Cross Headquarters, Vienna, Austria (solo)

Literature

1992: "Ernst Haas in Black and White" (Bulfinch, 1992)
1989: "Ernst Haas: Color Photography" (Harry N. Abrams, 1989)
1978: "Himalayan Pilgrimage" (Viking Press, 1978)
1977: "In Germany" (Viking Press, 1977)
1975: "In America" (Viking Press, 1975)
1971: "The Creation" (Viking Press, 1971)

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Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

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