Remembering Maria Austria on her birthday 🎂
📷 Paul Huf, 1948
"Not only was she a witness to and victim of war and fascism, she also captured the social contradictions after World War II with a critical and at the same time profoundly humane outlook."
- Verena Nees
Arthur Rubinstein by Maria Austria, 1952
Joods Historisch Museum
@Europeanaeu
Maria Austria
Peter Pears & Benjamin Britten, 1948
@mai_austria
Maria Austria's wonderful photograph of Bruno Walter conducting, from 1952
Walter conducts Mozart
James Baldwin by Maria Austria
Netherlands, 1965
Joods Historisch Museum
@Europeanaeu
Maria Austria
Mother & child before ‘Family Group’ at an exhibition of Henry Moore, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1950
Josephine Baker by Maria Austria
Monte Carlo, 1970
Kinderen in de Jordaan
📷 Maria Austria, 1953
What a marvellous photograph!
Today we're celebrating the great Dutch photographer's birthday.
Maria Austria by her husband (also a photographer), Henk Jonker, Amsterdam, 1961.
So many great photos by Austria & other Dutch photographers at the website of the Maria Austria Institute
maibeeldbank.nl
Maria Austria
Leonard Bernstein with his brother Burton and sister Shirley, during a boat trip on the IJsselmeer, the Netherlands, 1950
Paul Huf put together this 1958 shot of top Dutch photographers, with the great Maria Austria on the left. Huf managed to scooch in beside her & still have this awesome result.
This 1966 shot by Maria Austria shows an advertising shot in Paul Huf's Amsterdam studio.
Maria Austria
Waiting for the ferry, Yugoslavia, 1961
Maria Austria
Milkman with cart, Willemsparksweg, Amsterdam, 1952
A spectacular photograph!
Maria Austria's great portrait of my favourite conductor, Otto Klemperer, 1954
A very stern gentleman, but there's so much joy in his recordings!
Mozart's Jupiter Symphony
Maria Austria
Attic in Anne Frank's Secret Annex at Prinsengracht 263, Amsterdam, 1954
Her photographs of the Secret Annex stand alone as works of art, but they also provide valuable documentation. Many of Austria's family members were murdered by the Nazis.
Man runs through rainstorm in Turin, Italy 1952
Another great photograph by Maria Austria
Henk Jonker
Maria Austria with camera, 1946
Austria & Jonker were married from 1950 until her death in 1975. Together they established a photojournalism agency, Particam Pictures, in Amsterdam.
Mstislav Rostropovich plays a Bach cello suite
Another superb portrait by Maria Austria, from 1964
The Prelude from the 5th Suite
Maria Austria's portraits are outstanding; this 1969 shot of Willem Sandberg especially. Sandberg was a graphic designer, and, like Austria herself, a member of the Dutch resistance during WWII.
Share this Scrolly Tale with your friends.
A Scrolly Tale is a new way to read Twitter threads with a more visually immersive experience.
Discover more beautiful Scrolly Tales like this.