Brassaï
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Brassaï Net Worth

Brassaï was a Hungarian-born French artist who gained international fame for his photography, sculpture, writing, and filmmaking. He is best known for his classic and dramatic street photographs of Paris taken during the deserted hours of the night or during fog. He released two photo-books which became masterpieces of his work, and authored a large number of books and articles in French which were later translated and published in English. His work has been highly influential in the 20th century and he is remembered as one of the most distinguished photographers of his time.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Photographer
Birth Day September 09, 1899
Birth Place Brașov, Hungarian
Age 120 YEARS OLD
Died On 8 July 1984(1984-07-08) (aged 84)\nBeaulieu-sur-Mer, France
Birth Sign Libra
Alma mater Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts
Occupation Photographer
Spouse(s) Gilberte Brassai

💰 Net worth

Brassaï, a renowned Hungarian photographer, is expected to have a net worth ranging from $100K to $1M by the year 2024. Known for his exceptional work in capturing the essence and elegance of early 20th-century Paris, Brassaï rose to prominence with his black-and-white photographs depicting the city's vibrant nightlife, street scenes, and captivating portraits. With his artistic vision and unique approach, Brassaï achieved both critical acclaim and commercial success throughout his career, contributing immensely to the world of photography. His estimated net worth reflects the significant impact his work has had on the art world and his enduring legacy as a prominent figure in photography.

Biography/Timeline

1899

Gyula (Julius) Halász Brassaï (pseudonym) was born at 9 September 1899 in Brassó, Kingdom of Hungary (today Brașov, Romania) to an Armenian mother and a Hungarian Father. He grew up speaking Hungarian and Romanian. When he was three, his family lived in Paris for a year, while his Father, a professor of French literature, taught at the Sorbonne.

1920

In 1920, Halász went to Berlin, where he worked as a Journalist for the Hungarian papers Keleti and Napkelet. He started studies at the Berlin-Charlottenburg Academy of Fine Arts (Hochschule für Bildende Künste), now Universität der Künste Berlin. There he became friends with several older Hungarian artists and Writers, including the Painters Lajos Tihanyi and Bertalan Pór, and the Writer György Bölöni, each of whom later moved to Paris and became part of the Hungarian circle.

1924

In 1924, Halasz moved to Paris to live, where he would stay for the rest of his life. To learn the French language, he began teaching himself by reading the works of Marcel Proust. Living among the gathering of young artists in the Montparnasse quarter, he took a job as a Journalist. He soon became friends with the American Writer Henry Miller, and the French Writers Léon-Paul Fargue and Jacques Prévert. In the late 1920s, he lived in the same hotel as Tihanyi.

1930

Young Hungarian artists continued to arrive in Paris through the 1930s and the Hungarian circle absorbed most of them. Kertèsz immigrated to New York in 1936. Brassai befriended many of the new arrivals, including Ervin Marton, a nephew of Tihanyi, whom he had been friends with since 1920. Marton developed his own reputation in street photography in the 1940s and 1950s. Brassaï continued to earn a living with commercial work, also taking photographs for the United States magazine Harper's Bazaar. He was a founding member of the Rapho agency, created in Paris by Charles Rado in 1933.

1933

Brassaï captured the essence of the city in his photographs, published as his first collection in the 1933 book entitled Paris de nuit (Paris by Night). His book gained great success, resulting in being called "the eye of Paris" in an essay by his friend Henry Miller. In addition to photos of the seedier side of Paris, Brassai portrayed scenes from the life of the city's high society, its intellectuals, its ballet, and the grand operas. He had been befriended by a French family who gave him access to the upper classes. Brassai photographed many of his Artist friends, including Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, and several of the prominent Writers of his time, such as Jean Genet and Henri Michaux.

1948

In 1948, Brassaï married Gilberte Boyer, a French woman. She worked with him in supporting his photography. In 1949, he became a naturalized French citizen after years of being stateless.

1976

Miller later played down Brassai's claims of friendship. In 1976 he wrote of Brassai: "Fred [Perles] and I used to steer shy of him - he bored us." Miller added that the biography Brassai had written of him was typically "padded", "full of factual errors, full of suppositions, rumors, documents he filched which are largely false or give a false impression."

Some Brassaï images

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