Carl Van Vechten

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As per our current Database, Carl Van Vechten is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).

🎂 Carl Van Vechten - Age, Bio, Faces and Birthday

Currently, Carl Van Vechten is 144 years, 4 months and 16 days old. Carl Van Vechten will celebrate 145rd birthday on a Tuesday 17th of June 2025. Below we countdown to Carl Van Vechten upcoming birthday.

🌙 Zodiac

Carl Van Vechten’s zodiac sign is Gemini. According to astrologers, Gemini is expressive and quick-witted, it represents two different personalities in one and you will never be sure which one you will face. They are sociable, communicative and ready for fun, with a tendency to suddenly get serious, thoughtful and restless. They are fascinated with the world itself, extremely curious, with a constant feeling that there is not enough time to experience everything they want to see.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Carl Van Vechten was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.

About

Author, music critic, and portrait photographer who was one of the main promoters of the Harlem Renaissance. He was also the literary executor of Gertrude Stein.

Before Fame

He studied at the University of Chicago and went on to work as a music critic for The New York Times.

Trivia

He served as a patron of African-American, Harlem-based artists of the 1920s and was also a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Family Life

He was born into an affluent and politically liberal family in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He was married twice, although he was likely homosexual or bisexual.

Associated With

He photographed the African-American blues singer Bessie Smith and many of her contemporaries.

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