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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artist:Edith Tudor-Hart (1908 - 1973) Austrian
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title:Barricade on the Operngasse, Vienna
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date created:Photographed 1930 - 1933
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printed by:Owen Logan (born 1963) Scottish
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materials:Gelatin silver print
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measurements:30.30 x 30.00 cm
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credit line:Printed 2004 from original negatives held in the Edith Tudor Hart Archive
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accession number:PGP 279.12B
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Edith Tudor-Hart
Edith Tudor-Hart
Edith Tudor-Hart, née Suschitzky, was one of the most significant documentary photographers working in Britain in the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Vienna, she grew up in radical Jewish circles. Edith married Alex Tudor-Hart, a British doctor, and the pair moved to England. There she worked as a...