Ernst Haas
Plates contributed
The 6 plates attributed to Ernst Haas in the 1955 MoMA Master Checklist (Exhibition #569).
| ID | Country | Section | Year | View |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| photo-0021 | USA | Lovers | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0147 | USA | Work | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0235 | New Mexico | Relationships and community | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0287 | USA | Relationships and community | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0329 | USA | Play, learning, and education | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0437 | Italy | Hardship, suffering, and war | — | Clervaux |
Notes
Six plates in the catalog (count verified by strict-match grep against data/photographs.csv 2026-05-09): photo-0021 (#24 Lovers, USA), photo-0147 (#154 Work A, USA), photo-0235 (#244 Dance, ‘New Mexico’), photo-0287 (#298 Relationships, USA), photo-0329 (#341 Learning, USA), photo-0437 (#452 post-Faces / pre-Bomb bridge, Italy). All six carry a Magnum agency credit and the verbatim ‘Austrian’ nationality string in the MoMA Master Checklist; #154 also carries ARGOSY, #244 also carries LIFE, #341 also carries VOGUE. NATIONALITY DISCREPANCY: src-icp-ernst-haas-archive (in repo, fetched 2026-05-09) renders ‘American’; the MoMA Master Checklist of FoM records ‘Austrian’ (per the verbatim plate-line strings carried in the data/photographs.csv notes column for all six Haas plates). src-magnum-photographer-bios was attempted as a third anchor but the per-member URL returned 404 in this round; that source does not corroborate the nationality claim. The estate biography (src-haas-estate-biography, in repo, fetched 2026-05-09) opens ‘Haas was born in Vienna in 1921’ without assigning a nationality string. The discrepancy reflects Haas’s post-1951 U.S. naturalization; this row records ‘Austrian’ to match the FoM checklist primary record. Born 1921 / died 1986 per src-icp-ernst-haas-archive (‘1921 - 1986’) and src-haas-estate-biography (‘Ernst Haas (1921–1986)’). The 2 March 1921 birth and 12 September 1986 death day-month tokens are NOT corroborated against any source fetched in this round; carried from src-nyt-1986-haas-obit (in repo, NOT re-fetched in this round; carries verified: false). The Vienna birthplace and 1949 Magnum-Capa-invitation are corroborated verbatim by src-haas-estate-biography: ‘At the invitation of Robert Capa, Haas joined Magnum in 1949, developing close associations with Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Werner Bishof [sic].’ The 1953 LIFE 24-page color photo essay on New York City is recorded verbatim by the same source as: ‘In 1953 LIFE magazine published his groundbreaking 24-page color photo essay on New York City’; src-icp-ernst-haas-archive dates the same essay ‘1951’ — discrepancy recorded, not adjudicated. Magnum presidency 1959–60 verbatim per src-icp-ernst-haas-archive. 1962 MoMA retrospective described verbatim per src-haas-estate-biography: ‘In 1962 a retrospective of his work was the first color photography exhibition held at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.’ Plate count corrected from 2 to 6 in this batch (issue #150).
External biography
https://ernst-haas.com/biography/
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