Artist: Frederick Sommer (1905 - 1999)
Nationality: American
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Media: Photography
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Biography:
Frederick Sommer was the son of city planner and trained as an architect in Brazil. His drawings were first exhibited in Brazil during his teenage years and helped him gain admission to the architecture program at Cornell University, despite his lack of an undergraduate degree or knowledge of the English language. While in Switzerland in 1931, recovering from tuberculosis, Sommer purchased his first camera. He moved to Arizona in 1935 and devoted himself to photography after coming under the influence of Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston. His initial work bordered on the grotesque, often depicting animal carcasses. Sommer later moved on to produce landscapes and photographic assemblages.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Arizona Landscape
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Virgin and Child
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Max Ernst
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Frederick Sommer - Paracelsus 1957 silver gelatin print Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame American
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Frederick Sommer - The Eatable Thief 1950 gelatin silver print Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Giorgio Sommer, Fountain, Italy, circa 1870
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Sommer and Kaufmann, Pair of shoes, ca. 1940
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Giorgio Sommer, Soldiers" Quarters, Pompeii, 19th century
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Giorgio Sommer, Untitled [View of Rome], circa 1880
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Giorgio Sommer, 1206 Tempio di Mercurio, Pompei, 19th century
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Artist: Hans Daniel Sommer Title: Center Table Date: about 1680 Medium: marquetry of tortoise shell,brass,pewter,hardstone,
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Giorgio Sommer, Costumi Napolitane (Customary Neapolitan Behavior), from an unidentified album Napoli (Naples), circa 1860 - 1870
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William Sommer - The Pool 1944 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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William Sommer - Tess c. 1927 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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William Sommer - Marvin 1931 oil on cavnas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Frederick Atkinson, Frederick Atkinson, 19th century
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William Sommer - June (recto) c. 1926 oil on cardboard Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Giorgio Sommer, Italian, born in Germany, 1834-1914 Lucerne Photograph, albumen print Image: 20.3 x 25.2
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Giorgio Sommer, Italian, born in Germany, 1834-1914 Shoeshine and pickpocket Photograph, albumen print Image/Sheet: 23.3
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Giorgio Sommer, Italian, born in Germany, 1834-1914 Napoli Gradoni di chiaia 1880-90 Photograph, albumen print
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Giorgio Sommer, Italian, born in Germany, 1834-1914 Capri: Punta dalla Campanella Photograph, albumen print Image:
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William Sommer - Woman with a Book (verso) c. 1926 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Samuel J. Miller - Frederick Douglas 1847-52 cased half-plate dag The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Thomas Lawrence - Frederick H. Hemming c. 1824-25 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum English
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Thomas Lawrence - Mrs. Frederick Hemming c. 1824-25 oil on panel Kimbell Art Museum English
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Agnes Jeffrey - Frederick Jeffrey 1846 watercolor with grap Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Thomas Hudson - George Frederick Handel n.d. oil on canvas backed The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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Frederick Lee, The Overhanging Trees, 1865
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Frederick the Great, circa 1770
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Frederick L. Owen, The Gale, 1935
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Frederick Burridge, The Patriarchs, 1901
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Frederick O"Hara, The Canyon, 1962
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Frederick Childe Hassam, Cos Cob, 1915
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Frederick L. Owen, Nocturne, 1938
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Frederick Warren Freer, Honeysuckle, plate at p. 37 in the book, Representative Etchings by Artists of To-day in America (New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1887), 1887
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Frederick Childe Hassam, C. H. 1920, 1920
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Frederick O"Hara, Little Big Horn, 20th century
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Frederick Stuart Church, The Wanderer*s Return, frontispiece in the book, Representative Etchings by Artists of To-day in America (New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1887), 1887
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Frederick Childe Hassam, Toby"s, Cos Cob, 1915
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Frederick O"Hara, The Hunt, 20th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (7)
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NSA Gallery: Comics Brew: An Exhibition of International Comic Art
The festival is an initiative to showcase, develop and establish comic strip drawing in Southern Africa. The potential of the medium as an educational tool as well as entertainment has been realized in most European countries, the USA and Japan. R...
University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach: The UAM Diaries: 1973-2004 The Glenn Years
In addition, a number of exhibits that the UAM has traveled to museums throughout America, including The Great American Pop Art Store: Multiples of the Sixties; Time Dust, James Rosenquist; The Complete Graphics 1962-1992; Frederick Sommer at Seve...
Photo Review: Call for Artists: 2003 Photo Review Photography Competition
Also, the prize-winning photographers will be chosen for an exhibition at the photography gallery of The University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Because their work was seen in The Photo Review, past winners have been given one-person exhibitio...
Photo Review: Call for Artists: Photo Review 2005 International Photography Competition
Because their work was seen in The Photo Review, past winners have been given one-person exhibitions, have had their work reproduced in other leading photography magazines like DoubleTake, and have sold their work to collectors throughout the coun...
Photo Review: Call to Artists: 2004 Photo Review Photography Competition
Also, the prize-winning photographers will be chosen for an exhibition at the photography gallery of The University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Because their work was seen in The Photo Review, past winners have been given one-person exhibitio...
Photo Review: Call to Artists: 2004 Photo Review Photography Competition
Also, the prize-winning photographers will be chosen for an exhibition at the photography gallery of The University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Because their work was seen in The Photo Review, past winners have been given one-person exhibitio...
Delaware Art Museum: An American Century of Photography: From Dry-plate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection

Further Artwork and Information:

Frederick Sommer, obituary
Profotos - Frederick Sommer
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Masters of Photography: Frederick Sommer
Frederick Sommer (Getty Museum)
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Frederick Sommer - Surrealist Master
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