Anton Bruehl

Anton Bruehl (1900–1982), was an Australian-born American fashion photographer.

Early life and career Anton Bruehl was born in Hawker, Australia in 1900, the son of German immigrants. In 1919, he moved to the United States to work as an electrical engineer and was already "a skilled amateur photographer". Working in New York, Bruehl created colour photographs for advertisements in top American magazines such as Vogue and the Vanity Fair. Outside of advertising, Bruehl produced images of screen and stage stars, and other celebrities, and produced the award-winning documentary photo book Photographs of Mexico (1933). Bruehl won top advertising awards for his photography throughout the late 1920s and early 1930s. Working for Condé Nast Publications, he developed the Bruehl-Bourges color process with color specialist Fernand Bourges, which gave Condé Nast a monopoly on color magazine reproduction from 1932 to 1935. Three Centuries of American Art, 24 May-31 July 1938, MoMA. Portraits, 4 November-7 December 1943, MoMA. The 28th Annual Exhibition of Advertising and Editorial Art of the New York Art Directors Club, 15 March-17 April 1949, MoMA. Anton Bruehl, 7–31 January 1969, The Art Guild of Boca Raton, Florida. Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection: Starting with Atget, 1976, Art Institute of Chicago. New Acquisitions, 28 March-3 May 1979, Centre for Creative Photography. In the Spotlight: Anton Bruehl Photographs, 23 October 2010- 6 February 2011, National Gallery of Australia. Modern Photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection 1909-1949, 13 December 2014 – 19 April 2015, MoMA.

Collections National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Death Bruehl died in 1982.