Herbert List
Plates contributed
The 1 plate attributed to Herbert List in the 1955 MoMA Master Checklist (Exhibition #569).
| ID | Country | Section | Year | View |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| photo-0293 | Germany | Relationships and community | — | Clervaux |
Notes
One plate in the catalog (count verified by strict-match grep against data/photographs.csv 2026-05-09): photo-0293 (Section 25 Relationships, Germany, TIME, Inc. / German, 20 x 25 3/4 cm). Credited ‘TIME, Inc. (publisher), German’ in the MoMA Master Checklist — the first ‘TIME, Inc.’ credit in the catalog (per the photo-0293 row note). Born 1903; died 1975 per src-magnum-herbert-list (in repo, fetched 2026-05-09; right-hand panel renders ‘b. 1903’ / ‘d. 1975’ / ‘German’ / ‘Hamburg’). The 7 October 1903 / 4 April 1975 day-month tokens carry pointer status from src-wikipedia-herbert-list-pointer (in repo, fetched 2026-05-09); not corroborated against any second source fetched in this round. Hamburg birthplace verbatim per src-magnum-herbert-list (‘Born in 1903 into a prosperous mercantile family in Hamburg, Germany’). Bauhaus-circle anchor (linking List to a second photographer in this batch): per src-magnum-herbert-list, ‘though List was completely self-taught, his friendship with Andreas Feininger brought him to the next level. After purchasing the very expensive Rolleiflex, List had Feininger visit from the Bauhaus School to teach him how to use it.’ 1936 emigration verbatim per src-magnum-herbert-list (‘Leaving Germany in 1936 as the Nazis rose to power’); 1937–39 Greek period per same. Wartime persecution under Nazi laws (‘Because of his Jewish background, he was forbidden to publish or officially work in Germany’) verbatim per src-magnum-herbert-list. Magnum-via-Capa 1951 invitation verbatim per src-wikipedia-herbert-list-pointer (‘In 1951, List met Robert Capa, who invited him to work as a contributor to Magnum, but he rarely accepted assignments’). FoM plate identification: src-wikipedia-herbert-list-pointer records the FoM-selected photograph verbatim as ‘List’s 1950 picture of a woman, her black dress spread about her, reclining at a respectable distance from an elderly man reading … on the front steps of the Glyptothek in Munich, was selected by curator Edward Steichen for the world-touring Museum of Modern Art exhibition The Family of Man, seen by 9 million visitors.’ The 1950 Glyptothek-in-Munich identification is consistent with photo-0293 (Section 25 Relationships, Germany, the only Herbert List plate in the checklist) but should NOT be promoted to a print-record claim without a fetched MoMA installation print or original-print attribution. The Master Checklist (src-moma-exh-0569-master-checklist) prints the entry with photographer + agency + nationality + dimensions only, not a title. The Magnum profile does NOT mention FoM by name (verified by string-search 2026-05-09).
External biography
https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/herbert-list/
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