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 Empire-born American artist best known for his photomontages.

Val Telberg
BornFebruary 14, 1910
Moscow, Russia
Known forpainting, photography
Movementsurrealism

Biography

His family moved to China in 1918 and he spent most of his youth there.[1] He received a bachelor of science degree in chemistry from Wittenberg College in 1932.[1] He returned to China, but would emigrate to the United States in 1938.[1]

He studied painting at the Art Student's League, New York, in 1942, where he was exposed to the surrealism movement and experimental film-making. It was here he met his future first wife, Kathleen Lambing (more famous as Kathleen Haven, the name she took after her second marriage), who taught him photography.[1][2]

For his first professional job in photography, Telberg was a portrait photographer, taking portraits of nightclub patrons in Florida and later Massachusetts.[3][1] In 1945, he returned to New York and began to create photomontages through double exposure; many of these images had a surreal, dreamlike quality.[3] In 1948, the Brooklyn Museum of Art held an exhibition of the photomontage works he produced with his wife.[4]

In 1987, he had a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Photography.[5] His work is held by the Museum of Modern Art,[6] the J. Paul Getty Museum,[7] the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,[8] and the Whitney Museum of American Art.[2]

References
  1. Hostetler, Lisa (2018-06-10). "Val Telberg". International Center of Photography. Retrieved 2022-01-13. Cites: Handy et al. Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the International Center of Photography Collection, New York: Bulfinch Press in association with the International Center of Photography, 1999, p. 229.
  2. "Val Telberg | Portrait of Kathleen Haven". Whitney Museum of American Art. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
  3. Ogard, Anita. "Val Telberg". Museum of New Mexico. Archived from the original on 2008-04-09. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
  4. "Photographs by Kathleen & Vladimir Telberg-von-Teleheim: Surrealistic Photography (Press Release)". Brooklyn Museum. 1948. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
  5. "Val Telberg: Recent Works in Photomontage". Museum of Contemporary Photography. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
  6. "Val Telberg. Seine. 1952-54". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
  7. "Val Telberg (American, born Russia, 1910 - 1995)". The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
  8. "Telberg, Val". SFMOMA. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
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