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    Title

  • Studio portrait of Franz Kafka as a young boy : [reproduction]

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white ; 7.25 x 11 cm

  • Date

    undated

  • Place of Publication

    [Prague ?]

  • Depicted

    Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924

  • Subject

    Authors; Portraits, Boys

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    Johannes and Gertrude Urzidil Collection, AR 7110; ALB 32

  • Accession Number

  • URL

Biographical/Historical Information

Franz Kafka was born into the German speaking, Jewish community of Prague, Bohemia (then in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy) in 1883. Working in an office of an insurance company, Kafka wrote stylistically pathbreaking, modernist short stories and novels, which were mostly published posthumously. Franz Kafka died of tuberculosis in 1924.

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Citation

Studio portrait of Franz Kafka as a young boy : [reproduction], Leo Baeck Institute, F 11140.