The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 18, 2025

Transport, Braila, Rumania

1918, printed 1980

André Kertész

(American, 1894–1985)
printer

Hyperion Press

America
gelatin silver print
Image: 18.3 x 24.6 cm (7 3/16 x 9 11/16 in.); Paper: 20.3 x 25.1 cm (8 x 9 7/8 in.)
Gift of Alan and Monah L. Gettner 2022.74
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

Kertész was more interested in capturing moments of human exchange and emotion than key events in world history.

Description

Kertész served in the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I. It was part of the Central Powers that surrounded and occupied Romania during much of 1918. Kertész noted that the man in this picture, presumably a soldier, was one of a group which “had come up by train from a ship on the Black Sea.” He rests wearily by his wagon, watching a mother dog lick her pup
  • 1980-2021
    Alan and Monah L. Gettner (publishers), New York, NY, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
    June 6, 2022-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Kertész, André, and Hilton Kramer. Hungarian Memories. 1982.
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2022.74