JOSEF BREITENBACH 1896-1984

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JOSEF BREITENBACH 1896-1984
Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, 1937. Photograph. Vintage silver print, signed, titled and dated in pencil on the back. Image: 21.7 x 23 cm; sheet: 28.8 x 23 cm. Provenance: Gift of Joseph Breitenbach to Madame Mathilde Raphaël, by descent. Joseph Breitenbach Mathilde Raphaël Collection In 1933, Joseph Breitenbach met Mathilde Raphaël in Paris. He remained close to her until she was deported to Germany, along with her brother-in-law, the writer Joseph Benrubi, author of Arc en ciel balkaniques known under the pseudonym José d'Orient, and the latter's daughter Huguette, who was then nine years old. He made a series of luminous portraits of Huguette until July 1939 and kept up a correspondence with her and Mathilde Raphaël.
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