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Artists›Bill Brandt

Bill Brandt

German-British, 1904–1983

WA-00015205

PhotographySurrealismSymbolism

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

237

Works in Collection

348

Assets Indexed

Authority-backed Facts

Publications Referenced

80%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ63184

MoMA

Field Verification (5 fields)

3 cross-verified · 2 single-source

Birth yearArtsy + Duplicate Merge· 85%✓
NationalityDuplicate Merge + Artsy· 85%✓
Death yearDuplicate Merge· 85%✓
BiographyWikipedia· 88%
LocationGallery Generic· 72%

Source Registry (3)

Christies-Artsyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/bill-brandt
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/740
Tier 1 · Institutional92%
Wikidata
Tier 1 · Institutional40%

About

Why this artist matters now

No biography available for Bill Brandt yet.

Graph relationships

Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Surrealism

Medium

Photography

Related Artists

12 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Cleveland Museum of Art Tate

Canonical record

Artworks (237)

Nude, Hampstead

1979 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 23 × 19.7 cm (9 1/16 × 7 13/16 in.); Paper: 25.5 × 20.3 cm (10 1/16 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

South Kensington, London

1979 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 23.1 × 19.7 cm (9 1/8 × 7 13/16 in.); Paper: 25.6 × 20.3 cm (10 1/8 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

South Kensington, London

1979 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 23 × 19.7 cm (9 1/16 × 7 13/16 in.); Paper: 25.5 × 20.1 cm (10 1/16 × 7 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

East Sussex Coast

1979 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 22.9 × 19.9 cm (9 1/16 × 7 7/8 in.); Paper: 25.2 × 20.4 cm (9 15/16 × 8 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

East Sussex Coast

1978 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 22.9 × 19.9 cm (9 1/16 × 7 7/8 in.); Paper: 25.3 × 20.5 cm (10 × 8 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

London

1978 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 25.1 × 19.8 cm (9 15/16 × 7 13/16 in.); Paper: 25.2 × 20.3 cm (9 15/16 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Campden Hill, London

1978 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 23.2 × 19.7 cm (9 3/16 × 7 13/16 in.); Paper: 25.6 × 20.2 cm (10 1/8 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Robert Graves

1978 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 22.9 × 19.5 cm (9 1/16 × 7 11/16 in.); Paper: 25.2 × 20.3 cm (9 15/16 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Ted Hughes

1978 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 22.9 × 19.9 cm (9 1/16 × 7 7/8 in.); Paper: 23.6 × 20.5 cm (9 5/16 × 8 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Tom Stoppard

1978 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 22.9 × 19.9 cm (9 1/16 × 7 7/8 in.); Paper: 25.3 × 20.5 cm (10 × 8 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

East Sussex Coast

1977 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 23.1 × 19.6 cm (9 1/8 × 7 3/4 in.); Paper: 25.5 × 20.2 cm (10 1/16 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Campden Hill, London

1977 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 23.1 × 19.6 cm (9 1/8 × 7 3/4 in.); Paper: 25.5 × 20.3 cm (10 1/16 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Campden Hill, London

1977 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 23 × 19.4 cm (9 1/16 × 7 11/16 in.); Paper: 25.4 × 20.2 cm (10 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

East Sussex Coast

1977 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 21.1 × 17.4 cm (8 5/16 × 6 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

[no title]

1976 · Photograph, black and white, on paper

image: 283 x 314 mm

Tate

Vanessa Redgrave

1976 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 23 × 19.6 cm (9 1/16 × 7 3/4 in.); Paper: 25.5 × 20.2 cm (10 1/16 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Black Doll, Campden Hill

1972 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 21.9 × 19.6 cm (8 5/8 × 7 3/4 in.); Paper: 25.4 × 20.2 cm (10 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Brassai

1970 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 23 × 19.6 cm (9 1/16 × 7 3/4 in.); Paper: 25.5 × 20.1 cm (10 1/16 × 7 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Joan Miró

1968 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 23.1 × 19.6 cm (9 1/8 × 7 3/4 in.); Paper: 25.5 × 20.2 cm (10 1/16 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Rene Magritte with his Picture "The Son of Man," Brussels

1966 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 22.8 × 19.8 cm (9 × 7 13/16 in.); Paper: 25.3 × 20.3 cm (10 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Self-Portrait

1966 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 22.4 × 19.2 cm (8 7/8 × 7 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Giorgio de Chirico

1965 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 22.9 × 19.9 cm (9 1/16 × 7 7/8 in.); Paper: 25.2 × 20.4 cm (9 15/16 × 8 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Max Ernst, Paris

1965 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1969

17 3/16 × 14 3/4" (43.7 × 37.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Joan Miró's Right Eye

1964 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 23.1 × 19.6 cm (9 1/8 × 7 3/4 in.); Paper: 25.5 × 20.2 cm (10 1/16 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Artwork sources (5)

237 published of 342 catalogued · 312 with image

Art Institute Chicago
114 published114 img
MoMA
104 publishedof 209 catalogued193 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
7 published
The Met
7 published
Tate
5 published5 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 4)

4 entries · 1 sources

Nude, London
1952 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Nude, Vasterival, Normandy
1954 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Plas Newydd, Denbighshire (Jardin aux pays de Falles, Llangollen)
1943 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
[no title]
1976 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

Artsy

Art Institute of Chicago

Shelter Photographs Taken in London by Bill Brandt, November 1940 D1564

Wikimedia Commons

Shelter Photographs Taken in London by Bill Brandt, November 1940 D1553

Wikimedia Commons

Shelter Photographs Taken in London by Bill Brandt, November 1940 D1536

Wikimedia Commons

Shelter Photographs Taken in London by Bill Brandt, November 1940 D1545

Wikimedia Commons

Relationships

Movements2

Surrealism Symbolism

Collections4

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Cleveland Museum of Art Tate

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Tate

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