Wolfgang Suschitzky the Humanist
Wolf Suschitzky, “No Resting Place”, Fotohof, Salzburg – Austria from 17 July to 26 September 2020
Wolfgang Suschitzky’s life was marked by flight and exile from the brown plague. While a large part of his family was murdered by the National Socialists, he survived in exile in Great Britain, having already fled in 1934 in the light of political developments in the Austro-Fascist “corporate state”. He died in London in 2016 at the age of 104.
For this retrospective, Fotohof “archiv”, which has received the artist’s estate, has chosen a theme: work.
This is no coincidence: the subject is omnipresent in the work of the Viennese, who grew up in a Jewish family devoted entirely to Vienna’s social-democratic politics. His father was co-founder of Anzengruber Verlag and Vienna’s first Social Democratic bookstore. Both had to close after the Anschluss.
A sober observer of social struggles, the photographer expresses through these photos human suffering and also the call for a form of revolt induced in expressionist photos. They offer a vision of living and working conditions in various countries and bear witness to a world, but unshakeable humanist long put to the test which, all things considered, remains the only way out in the face of deleterious ideologies.
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