Choose a mood and the room itself answers — the light cools or warms, the air changes pace, and only the works that carry that feeling step forward from the dark. Everything else recedes into shadow.
Edmund Engelman: A Photographer's Legacy of Sigmund Freud Born: Vienna, Austria (1907) Died: New York City, U.S. (2000) Nationality: Jewish Austrian (Viennese), later American Early Life and Education Edmund Engelman's parents were Jewish immigrants from Galicia who settled in Vienna. He displayed an early aptitude for technology, building his own camera at age ten and receiving a ham radio license. Engelman attended t
he prestigious Technische Hochschule (now Vienna University of Technology) from 1927 to 1931, earning a degree in mechanical and electrical engineering. This provided him with a strong technical foundation that would later inform his photographic work. He graduated from the Real-Gymnasium Leopoldstadt, the same school Sigmund Freud attended. The Photographs of Sigmund Freud Engelman is primarily known for documenting Sigmund Fr…