Val Telberg

Val Telberg (born Vladimir Telberg-von-Teleheim on February 14, 1910, in Moscow, Russian Empire; died 1995, Southampton, New York) was a Russian-born American artist best known for his photomontages.

Biography His family moved to China in 1918 and he spent most of his youth there. He received a bachelor of science degree in chemistry from Wittenberg College in 1932. In 1948, the Brooklyn Museum of Art held an exhibition of the photomontage works he produced with his wife.

In 1987, he had a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. His work is held by the Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.