Wolf Suschitzky @ FOTOHOF

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Wolf Suschitzky @ FOTOHOF

July 16th, 2020 by fstop

Wolf Suschitzky − Building the Abbey Works Port Talbot, 1950

Wolf Suschitzky: NO RESTING PLACE
July 17 – September 26, 2020

Opening: Thursday, July 16 from 7 p.m.

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With Wolfgang Suschitzky’s photographic work, the FOTOHOF takes a look at the historically significant position of a personality who comes from Austria, but is characterized by flight and exile. The estate of Wolf Suschitzky, who died in London in 2016 at the age of 104, was given to the FOTOHOF archive in 2018 as a permanent loan, where it is scientifically processed and made accessible. The exhibition project Wolf Suschitzky – No Resting Place does not, however, see itself as a retrospective of the overall work of the photographer and cameraman, which spanned the 1930s to the early 21st century. Rather, it deals with the topic “work” of a material that is omnipresent in the work of the native of Vienna and thus focuses on continuities of content in a biography interrupted by emigration and exile. Wolfgang Suschitzky (* 1912) grew up in a Jewish family committed to the teachings of Viennese social democracy. His father is a co-founder of Anzengruber Verlag and the first – social democratic – bookstore in the Viennese working class Favoriten. Both facilities will be closed after the so-called “connection”. While a large part of his family was murdered by the National Socialists, Wolf Suschitzky survived in exile in the UK, to which he had already fled in 1934 due to political developments in the Austrian “estates state”.”

FOTOHOF / Inge-Morath-Platz 1 -3 / 5020 Salzburg / Austria

Location: Austria, Salzburg Type: Exhibition

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