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Biography

Gyula Halász, known as Brassaï, was born in 1899 in Brașov, Romania. He studied painting and sculpture at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, Hungary. His work can be found in the public collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; and Museum of Modern Art, Ne wYork, NY. Brassaï died in 1984 in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France.

Bio updated as of 2023.

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