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"How could a photograph convey with such complete certainty the secret feelings of the person shown in it?"  —Franz Kafka, Amerika 

Pictures

 

Click on the thumbnail to see the full sized picture where there are captions explaining each picture. Yes, they all work--I checked them all last week. Apologies if the quality isn't the best--I have a really cheap scanner.


   Baby Franz at age 1 (aww, how cute!)                Franz at age 2 in a dress
 

    Hermann Kafka, his father                           Julie Kafka, his mother

   Franz at age 5                           Franz at 10 with Valli and Elli

 At the time of his Bar Mitzvah (age 13)        Bar Mitzvah invitation

     In 1901 (age 18)              In 1906 (age 23)

    Max Brod                           Petting some dog, 1906

    Sister Elli at 21                Sister Valli at 20

    Sister Ottla at 18                    Issac Löwy, his actor friend

    Gerti Wasner, his girlfriend at the sanatorium in Riva

     Felice Bauer                Letter to Felice

    Engagement announcement

    Passport picture 1915                Grete Bloch

     Julie Whoryzek, his 2nd fiancée                Shadowy portrait c.1917

    Milena Jesenská                                      Milena again

    Dora Diamant                                      Dora

        Funeral notice

     Grave
 

  Thanks to Klaus Wagenbach for the pix.

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