MADAME D'ORA Wien & Paris 1907-1957

The photographer Dora Kallmus (1881–1963) portrayed cultural personalities and transgressors such as Gustav Klimt, Pablo Picasso, Joséphine Baker, Coco Chanel, and Anita Berber. When the Nazis seized Paris, Kallmus, who came from a Jewish family, lost her studio and fled. Friends and family were persecuted. Her sister was deported and murdered. These horrors are, after the war, embodied by Kallmus in a series of photographs from parisian slaughterhouses. The contrasts are striking.