Josef Breitenbach
Munich (Germany), 03.04.1896 - New York (USA), 07.10.1984
He comes from a Jewish wine trading family from Munich. He grew up during the First World War and the difficult post-war years and completed both a technical and a commercial education and studied philosophy and art history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. He became politically involved in a pacifist youth organization of the SPD. He took an active part in the November Revolution and then held an office in the Soviet government for a few months. In 1932 he opened his first photo studio in Munich. After the National Socialists took power in 1933, Breitenbach was targeted by the SA. Thereafter he fled to Paris until 1938. After a short period of internment, he was able to flee to New York via Marseille in 1941.
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