Born in Stuttgart, Germany, Hannes Beckmann studied at the Bauhuas, Dessau in 1928 with Paul Klee, Vassily Kandinsky and Josef Albers. In 1932, he went to Vienna and studied photography for two years. From 1938 to 1944, he was in Prague where he was director of a photographic studio, and from 1944 until the end of the war, he was interred in a concentration camp.
In 1948, he came to the United States where he settled in New York and was head of the Photographic Department at the Guggenhei (showing 500 of 1268 characters). |
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