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Feldschuh Gallery
New York
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Herbert Matter
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American/Swiss
, 1907–1984)
Herbert Matter
Providence,
1940
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Herbert Matter
Nude in Driftwood,
1940
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1907
Born in Engelberg, Switzerland
1925 - 1927
Attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Geneva
1928 - 1929
Studied under Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant at Academie Moderne, Paris
1929 - 1932
Hired as a designer and photographer for Deberny and Piegnot, assisted A.M. Cassandre and Le Corbusier
1936 - 1938
Freelance photographer for Harper's Bazaar and Saks Fifth Avenue, and produced covers and spreads for Vogue
1936
Moved to the United States
1944
Became the design consultant at Knoll
1952
Became professor of photography and graphic design at Yale
1958 - 1968
Was the design consultant for the Guggenheim Museum
1978
Received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for photography in 1980
1984
Died on May 8 in Southampton, Long Island, NY
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Exhibitions
1995
Herber Matter - Foto Grafiker. Sehformen der Zeit, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich (solo)
1991
The Graphic Designs of Herbert Matter, Museum of Modern Art, NY (solo)
1978
Herbert Matter, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich (solo)
1954
Four American Graphic Designers, Museum of Modern Art, NY
1950
Color Photography, Museum of Modern Art, NY
1943
Action Photography, Museum of Modern Art, NY
1937
Photography 1839-1937, Museum of Modern Art, NY
