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ID: 500035065 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500035065			Record Type: Person

Matter, Herbert (Swiss and American photographer and designer, 1907-1984)

Note: Died 8 May 1984. Studied painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva, Switzerland, 1925-1927. Studied drawing and painting at the Académie Moderne, Paris, France, under Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant, 1927-1929. Freelance photographer and designer; worked for Le Corbusier and the Studio Deberny & Peignot, Paris, France, 1929-1932. Collaborated with the magazine Arts et Métiers Graphiques, Paris, France, 1930-1936. Produced posters (design and photomontages) for the Swiss National Tourism Office, Zurich, Switzerland, 1932-1936. Emigrated to the United States, 1936. Freelance photographer; worked for Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Town and Country, New York City, New York, 1936-1946. Created the design of the Swiss Pavilion and the Corning Glass Pavilion at the World Fair, New York City, 1939. Photographer and designer for the office of Charles and Raye Eames in Venice, California, 1943-1946. Staff photographer, Editions Condé Nast, New York City, New York, 1946-1957. Consultant and art director for Knoll Associates, 1946-1966. Professor of photography at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1952-1976. Freelance photographer and designer in New York City, New York, from 1958. Design consultant, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, New York, and for the Fine Arts Museum in Houston, Georgia, 1958-1968. Produced a photographic essay on the works of Alberto Giacometti, 1960-1977. Produced a graphics program for the New York Studio School, 1964-1978. American photographer and graphic designer, born in Switzerland.

Names:
	Matter, Herbert (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
	Matter, Herbert (Dutch-P,NA)
	Herbert Matter (V,display)
	מטר, הרברט (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)

Nationalities:
	Swiss (preferred)
	American

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	painter
	printmaker
	critic
	designer
	filmmaker
	graphic designer
	photographer
	professor
	teacher
	typographer

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Engelberg (Obwalden, Switzerland) (inhabited place) Died: Southampton (Suffolk county, New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:

	active:		Switzerland (Europe) (nation)
	active:		France (Europe) (nation)
	active:		United States (North and Central America) (nation)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

employee of ....	Le Corbusier from 1929 to 1932
....................	(Swiss architect, painter, and theorist, 1887-1965, active in France) [500027041]

student of ....	Léger, Fernand 1927-1928
..................	(French painter, 1881-1955) [500027374]

teacher of ....	Davidson, Bruce
..................	(American photographer, born 1933) [500037020]

teacher of ....	Fletcher, Alan
..................	(English graphic designer, typographer, and author, 1931-2006) [500125487]

teacher of ....	Joel, Yale
..................	(American photographer, ca.1919-2006) [500125847]

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Matter, Herbert (I)

Biographies:

(Swiss and American photographer and designer, 1907-1984) ..... [VP Preferred]
(Swiss painter, printmaker, b.1907) ..... [BHA]
(Swiss and American artist, photographer, graphic designer, designer, painter (artist), printmaker, filmmaker, teacher, critic and professor; born Engleberg (Switzerland), 1907; died Southampton (New York, United States), 1984) ..... [CCA]
(American photographer, 1907-1984) ..... [AVERY]
(artist, 1907-1984) ..... [GRL]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(Swiss designer, 1907-1984) ..... [IMJ]
(American artist, born Switzerland. 1907-1984) ..... [MoMA]
(Swiss painter, 1907-1984) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

מטר, הרברט ........	[IMJ]
....................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database

Herbert Matter ........	[CCA, GRISC, MoMA]
..............................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..............................	Canadian Centre for Architecture database
..............................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)

Matter, Herbert ........	[AVERY Preferred, BHA Preferred, CCA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, IMJ Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred]
................................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
................................	Avery Authority files (1963-)
................................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
................................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database
................................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 86030945
................................	RILA/BHA (1975-2000)
................................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 311382


Note:
English	..........	[AVERY, CCA]
	..........	Auer, Encyclopédie des Photographes (1985)
	..........	Eastman House Database [online] (n.d.)
	..........	LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
	..........	Wayne, Dreams, Lies, and Exaggerations (1991) 56, 59

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