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1990 Andre ́Kerte ́sz, ma France; Palais de Tokyo; Paris,
France and traveling
1992 Andre ́Kerte ́sz, Form and Feeling; Queensland Art
Gallery; Brisbane, Australia, and traveling
1994 Andre ́ Kerte ́sz and Hungary; Magyar Fotogra ́fiai
Mu ́ zeum; Kecskeme ́t, Hungary, and traveling
Andre ́Kerte ́sz: A Centennial Tribute;J.PaulGetty
Museum; Los Angeles, California
Andre ́Kerte ́sz, le Double d’une Vie; Pavillon des Arts;
Paris, France and traveling


Group Exhibitions


1928 Premier Salon Inde ́pendant de la Photographie; Come ́-
die des Champs-Elyse ́es; Paris, France
Galerie l’Epoque; Brussels, Belgium
Internationale Foto Salon; Amsterdam and Rotter-
dam, the Netherlands
1929 Fotografie der Gegenwart; Folkwang Museum; Essen,
Germany
Film und Foto; Stuttgart, Germany
1930 Das Lichtbild; Munich, Germany
Primer Salon Anual de Fotografia; Buenos Aires, Ar-
gentina
1931 Das Lichtbild 1931; Essen
1932 Exhibition of Modern Photography; Royal Photogra-
phic Society of Great Britain; London, England
Modern European Photography; Julien Levy Gallery;
New York, New York
1934 Groupe annuel des photographies; Galerie de la Ple ́iade;
Paris, France
The Modern Spirit in Photography and Advertising;
Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain; London,
England
1937 Photography 1839–1937; Museum of Modern Art; New
York, New York
Pioneers of Modern French Photography; Julien Levy
Gallery; New York, New York
1941 Image of Freedom; Museum of Modern Art; New
York, New York


1967 The Concerned Photographer; Riverside Museum; New
York, New York, and traveling
1977 Documenta 6; Kassel, Germany
1978 Sympathetic Explorations: Kerte ́sz/Harbutt; Plains Art
Museum; Moorhead, Minnesota
1989 The Art of Photography: 1839–1989; Royal Academy
of Arts; London, England
L’Invention d’un Art; Muse ́e National d’Art Moderne,
Centre Georges Pompidou; Paris, France

Selected Works
Wandering Violinist, 1921
Satiric Dancer, 1926
Lajos Tihanyi, 1926
Mondrian’s Glasses and Pipe, 1926
Meudon, 1928
Fork, 1928
Distortion #91, 1933
Arm and Ventilator, 1937
East Walk of Conservatory Pond, Central Park, 1944

Further Reading

Borhan, Pierre, ed.Andre ́Kerte ́sz: His Life and Work.
Boston: Bulfinch Press, 1994.
Corkin, Jane, ed.Andre ́Kerte ́sz: A Lifetime of Perception.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1982.
Ducrot, Nicolas, ed.Andre ́Kerte ́sz: Sixty Years of Photo-
graphy, 1912–1972. New York: Grossman, 1972.
Kerte ́sz, Andre ́.Day of Paris.NewYork:J.J.Augustin,1945.
Kerte ́sz, Andre ́. Hungarian Memories. Boston: Little,
Brown and Co., 1982.
Kismaric, Carol.Andre ́Kerte ́sz. Millerton, NY: Aperture,
1977.
Phillips, Sandra S.Andre ́Kerte ́sz of Paris and New York.
Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1985.

WILLY KESSELS


Belgian

The varied output and wide-ranging career of Willy
Kessels reflected many of the twentieth century photo-
graphy’s significant aesthetic developments. Like
many of his contemporaries, Kessels had a career in
the visual arts before he became a photographer. An
architectural draftsman, furniture designer, and sculp-
tor, Kessels was one of the protagonists of Belgian


avant-garde art and modern architecture during the
1920s. Architecture and the urban environment play
an important role in his photographic oeuvre, which
developed from 1929 onwards. In fact, Kessels’ archi-
tectural photography is an indispensable visual archive
of Belgian modernism. In Brussels he photographed
many of the buildings by leading architects such as
Henry Van de Velde, whose portrait he also made.
The generally moderate nature of Belgian architectural

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