From the Cycle The Royal Garden
Josef Sudek
(Biography)
From the Cycle The Royal Garden, Josef Sudek
Czech, 1896-1976
- Born in Kolin
- Apprenticed to a bookbinder, 1911-1913, and received first instruction in photography from a fellow worker
- Seriously injured serving at the Italian front in 1917, ultimately lost his right arm
- Returned to photography in 1918 during three year period of convalescence
- Studied photography at the State School of Graphic Arts in Prague, 1922-1924
- Founded the Czech Photographic Society in 1924 with Jaromir Funke and
- Adolf Schneeberger
- Named Artist of Merit in 1961
- Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, New York, USA
- Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA
- Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA
- National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia
- New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
- Umeleckoprumyslove muzeum v Praze (Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague), Czech Republic
