FAIRFIELD — An exhibition of photographs by Trude Fleischmann will be on view starting this week at the Fairfield University Art Museum, the first solo museum exhibition of her work in the United States, a display curated by Westporter Carey M. Weber, museum executive director.

“Famous & Family: Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann” opens with a reception at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 1, at the museum’s Bellarmine Hall Galleries, 200 Barlow Road. To register, click here.

The reception will be preceded by a talk about Fleischmann by Frauke Kreutler, a curator at the Wien Museum in Vienna, Austria. It will take place at 5 p.m. Thursday, May 1, in Fairfield University’s Dolan School of Business event room. To register for the talk, which also can be viewed online, click here.

The exhibit, curated by Weber with Fleischmann’s cousin Barbara Rosenberg Loss of Fairfield, showcases more than 100 photos by the Austrian-born Fleischmann (1895-1990), described in a museum publicity release as “one of the most accomplished female photographers of the 20th century.” The exhibit will be on display May 2 through July 26.

The show will feature photos from Fleischmann’s career in Vienna during the 1920s and ’30s, as well as her work in the United States after her 1940 emigration.

Fleischmann opened a studio Vienna when she was 25, and photographed artists, dancers, actors and other cultural figures. When Nazis invaded in 1938, she fled to Paris, then moved to London and later to New York. She opened a studio behind Carnegie Hall on 56th Street in 1940 and photographed artists and intellectuals, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Marian Anderson and Albert Einstein, according to the museum.

Lenders to the exhibition include the Wien Museum in Vienna, Austria, the New York Public Library and private collectors. Also on display will be never-before-exhibited works from Fleischmann/Rosenberg, Haas and Cornides family collections, as well as the family collection of her student and life-long friend, photographer Helen Post.

For more information about the Fleischmann exhibit and a slate of related programs, check the Fairfield University Art Museum website, call  203-254-4046 or email museum@fairfield.edu.