Source
Edward Steichen: From a Man of His Time to an Artist Out of Time — CNA Luxembourg educational portal
Citation
Centre national de l’audiovisuel (CNA), Luxembourg. “Edward Steichen: From a Man of His Time to an Artist Out of Time.” Educational portal accompanying the permanent installation at Clervaux Castle. Accessed 2026-04-25. https://www.thefamilyofman.education/en/historical-context/edward-steichen-from-a-man-of-his-time-to-an-artist-out-of-time
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A Tier-1 institutional biographical page for Edward Steichen, published by the CNA — the institutional custodian of The Family of Man at Clervaux Castle. Anchors Steichen’s birth in Luxembourg, his emigration as a small child, his MoMA directorship, the 1955 exhibition, and his 1960 second marriage. Companion to src-cna-education (which covers the exhibition itself).
Key excerpts / pages
- “Edouard Jean Steichen was born on 27th March, 1879 in Bivange, Luxembourg. He was barely 2 years old when his parents moved to the United States, in the continuity of the great European migrations, driven by the hope of a more prosperous life in a country across the ocean.”
- “When he was named the director of the Photography Department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from 1947 to 1962, Steichen’s photographer career became secondary and he dedicated his time to make other artists famous.”
- “It opened at MoMA in 1955, then toured the world until 1965 as a consecration of his most ambitious project: to explore the potential of photography as a means of communication and prove its capacity to interact with the world as much as it was showing it.”
- “And yet in 1960 he remarried Joanna Taub -54 years his junior.”
Notes
- Fetched 2026-04-25; URL stable. Page is part of the same CNA
thefamilyofman.educationportal assrc-cna-educationbut is a distinct biographical page. - Perspective: institutional / curatorial (CNA inherits Steichen’s framing of his own life and exhibition).
- The CNA page does not narrate the 1963 Charlotte / White House meeting nor the 1964 U.S.-government donation — those are covered separately in
src-chronicle-lu-2025-cercle-cite-steichen.