Photo Gallery

Exhibition

  • v Budapešti roku 1917

Historical photographs of the Prague ghetto and synagogues

  • House where Franz Kafka was born
  • Pinkas Synagogue
  • North façade of the New Synagogue
  • The Golden Face house, Hermann Kafka’s residence
  • Houses near the Old New Synagogue
  • House in 229 Hampejská Street
  • Cikánská Street
  • Maisel Street
  • Josefovská Street
  • Rabínská Street
  • Rabínská Street
  • Great Court Synagogue on Rabínská Street
  • Rabínská Street
  • Old butcher’s shop behind the Great Court Synagogue
  • Rabínská Street, Old New Synagogue and the Jewish Town Hall
  • West façade of the Old New Synagogue
  • Žatecká Street
  • Maisel Street; Maisel Synagogue on the left
  • Maisel Street
  • Old New Synagogue
  • Old New Synagogue and the Jewish Town Hall

Sites associated with Franz Kafka

  • Kinský Palace on the Old Town Square. Kafka's parents' shop was located behind the windows on the right.
  • Hermann Kafka's shop
  • Třešť – the house in which the office of Dr. Siegfried Löwy, F. Kafka's uncle, was located
  • The Kafka family shop on the 1st floor, in 1906 (Celetná Street 12)
  • A view of the main hall of the Arco Café (about 1907)
  • Franz Kafka's desk
  • Müritz, on the Baltic coast
  • Anhalt railway station in Berlin
  • The Stüdl Pension, Schelesen
  • Ve Smečkách Street 6, Julie Wohryzek's flat
  • Garden of the Ottoburg Pension in Meran-Untermais
  • Postcard from Gmünd, Austria
  • Building at Heiderstrasse 25–26 in Zehlendorf
  • The house at Grunewaldstrasse 13 in Berlin
  • Grave of Franz Kafka and his parents

Franz Kafka

  • about 1887
  • 1896
  • in Budapest in 1917
  • between 1906–1908
  • about 1917
  • about 1901
  • at the end of his university studies (1906)
  • about 1920
  • about 1917
  • at Old Town Square (1922)
  • the last known photograph (1923–1924)
  • 15-year-old Franz Kafka in a class photograph taken in 1898
  • from a sanatorium in the Tatranské Marliare, Kafka in the front row (1921)
  • Graduation photographs, 1901 (F.K. in the top row, third from the left)
  • Vienna, Prater, 1913. Left to right: Franz Kafka, Albert Ehrenstein, Otto Pick, Lise Weltch

Family

  • Elli, Valli, Ottla – Franz Kafka's sisters
  • Hermann Kafka
  • Franz Kafka and Ottla in Siřem, 1917
  • Julie and Hermann Kafka, 1917
  • Julie and Hermann Kafka, 1930
  • Kafka´s sisters in 1898
  • Julie and Hermann, sister Elli and her husband Karel Hermann and their son Felix
  • Family photograph from about 1908–1910. Seated: mother, father, aunt Julie. Standing: uncle Siegfried, Uncle Richard, his wife Hedwig
  • Julie Kafka and Kafka's sister Valli, 1917

Friends and colleagues

  • Ernst Weiss (1884–1940)
  • Ernst Polak (1886–1947)
  • Franz Werfel (1890–1945)
  • Otto Pick (1887–1940)
  • Christian von Ehrenfels (1859–1932)
  • Berta Fantová (1865–1918)
  • Leopold Hilsner (1876–1928)
  • Hugo Salus (1866–1929)
  • Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937)
  • Max Brod (1884–1968)
  • Oskar Baum (1886–1941)
  • Felix Weltsch (1884–1964)
  • Franz Werfel (1890–1945)
  • Leo Perutz (1884-1957)
  • Paul Kornfeld (1889-1942)
  • Egon Erwin Kisch (1885–1948)
  • Johannes Urzidil (1896–1970)
  • Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925)
  • Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
  • Franz Blei and his family
  • Kurt Wolff (1887–1963)
  • Hans von Weber (1872–1924)

Women

  • With Felice Bauer in Budapest in 1917.
  • Julie Wohryzek (1891–1944)
  • Dora Diamant (1904–1952)
  • Milena Jesenská (1896–1944)
  • Julie Wohryzek (on the right) walking with her sister.
  • Grete Blochová (1892–1944)
  • Milena Jesenská (1896–1944)
  • Milena Jesenská (1896–1944)
  • Dora Diamant (1904–1952)
Photo sources:
Archiv Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin
Museum of Czech Literature, Prague