Elizabeth Buehrmann

American, 1886-1965

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Buehrmann enrolled at Art Institute of Chicago at 15 but ,discouraged, began to learn photography with Eva Watson-Schütze. In March 1904 she received a letter from Stieglitz that she had been elected to the Associateship of the Secession. Buehrmann went to London from 1906-7. She mostly took portraits in the sitter's homes, and also did some advertising photography. She died in St. Augustine, FL in 1965. [EC]