Edith Tudor-Hart

Barricade on the Operngasse, Vienna

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About this artwork

In May 1933, the Austrian Chancellor, Engelbert Dollfuss, banned demonstrations altogether, barricading off the centre of Vienna. May Day was the most important event in the urban calendar, a political festival on a mass scale that validated Vienna’s status as a socialist city. Marchers converged on the city centre from all quarters, led by the powerful Austrian Social Democratic Party. Here, Tudor-Hart has captured a barricade on the Operngasse, a street in the centre of Vienna. The foreground is filled with barbed wire, its linear quality emphasised by the strong sunlight. In the shadow in the behind soldiers are visible.

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Edith Tudor-Hart

Edith Tudor-Hart