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ID: 500036971
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500036971

 

Record Type: Person
Thorek, Max (American photographer and physician, 1880-1960)

Note: Thorek emigrated to Chicago in 1900, where he worked as a medical doctor, and later became an American citizen in 1904. Around ca. 1925, Thorek began to photograph. By 1934, he was a founding member of the Photographic Society of America.

Names:
Thorek, Max (preferred,V,index,LC,Dutch-P,NA)
Max Thorek (V,display)
Thorek, Dr. Max (V)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)
Hungarian

Roles:
artist (preferred)
photographer
physician

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Hungary (Europe) (nation)
Died:  Chicago (Cook county, Illinois, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   ca. 1925-1950  Chicago (Cook county, Illinois, United States) (inhabited place)

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Thorek, Max (I)

Biographies:
(American photographer and physician, 1880-1960) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American physician, photographer, 1880-1960) ..... [BHA]
(American and Hungarian photographer and physician; born Hungary, 1880; died Chicago (Illinois, United States), 1960) ..... [CCA]
(artist, 1880-1960) ..... [GRL]
(Hungarian photographer, 1880-1960) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Max Thorek ........ [CCA]
......................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
Thorek, Dr. Max ........ [VP]
...............................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
Thorek, Max ........ [BHA Preferred, CCA Preferred, GRL Preferred, RKD Preferred]
........................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 84804099
........................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
........................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 393124

Subject: ........ [BHA, CCA, Gallery Systems, GRL, RKD, VP]
....................  Auer Index: Photographers Encyclopedia International. Hermance, Switzerland: Éditions Camera Obscura, 1992.
....................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
....................  Christie's (New York) 25 April 1989 154
....................  Eastman House Database [online] (n.d.)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n84804099
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n84804099
....................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
....................  Peterson, Creative Camera Art of Max Thorek (1984)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 393124
....................  Who Was Who in America (1943-) v.3
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q6795306
 
Note:
English .......... [CCA, VP]
.......... Eastman House Database [online] (n.d.)
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