# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wilhelm-brasse
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:45:31.089Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wilhelm-brasse"
name: "Wilhelm Brasse"
slug: "wilhelm-brasse"
description: "Wilhelm Brasse was a Polish professional photographer and a prisoner in Auschwitz during World War II. He became known as the \"famous photographer of Auschwitz concentration camp\". His life and work were the subject of the 2005 Polish television documentary film The Portraitist (Portrecista), which first aired in the Proud to Present series on the Polish TVP1 on 1 January 2006."
tagline: "Polish photographer (1917-2012)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/09/Wilhelm_Brasse_2005.jpg"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1917-12-03"
deathDate: "2012-10-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump