Anton Bruehl was born in Hawker, Australia in 1900, the son of German immigrants.
[1] In 1919, he moved to the United States to work as an electrical engineer and was already "a skilled amateur photographer".
[2] Working in New York, Bruehl created colour photographs for advertisements in top American magazines such as Vogue and the Vanity Fair.
[3] Bruehl won top advertising awards for his photography throughout the late 1920s and early 1930s.
[2] In 1931 Alma Reed exhibited Bruehl's non-commercial photographs at her New York gallery, Delphic Studios.