Special exhibition as part of the European Month of Photography (EMOP)
Käte Frank left behind a special collection of private photographs. Her photos, which begin in Berlin during the Weimar Republic, capture the spirit of optimism of that time. As a young woman, she moved in a cosmopolitan environment and traveled to Spain with a friend in the early 1930s.
In Spain, Käte Frank experienced new freedoms in a politically left-leaning bohemian community. But the Nazis' seizure of power in 1933 prevented her from returning to Germany, and from 1936 onwards the Spanish Civil War threatened her immediate environment. Her daughter Miriam was born that year.
What began as a departure became a life on the run: in 1938 mother and child fled to France, in 1941 to Mexico and finally in 1948 to New Zealand.
On this journey, Käte Frank always kept her photographs with her. She documented her eventful life in ten albums and recorded memories of times gone by. Her pictures impressively illustrate how private photography becomes a mirror of an increasingly fragile freedom in times of existential threat. Her private photographs provide a unique insight into the lives of Jewish people during the 1930s and 1940s.
Dates
March 2025
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