Ernst Foerster, Jewish photographer, Perished in Holocaust. Photo of a Jewish Woman, 1922, Signed in pencil.

Ernst Foerster was killed Theresienstadt, 1943

Signed and dated by photographer in pencil on front side, Carlsbad – Wien

Stamp of atelier on reverse side.

Size of image: 21 x 15 cm. (8.2 x 5.9 inches)

Size with cardboard: 34.8 x 25 cm. (13.7 x 9.8 inches)

Condition: light staining to the fields and some creasing to the edges

Ernst Foerster (active around 1910-1935) Ernst Foerster (actually: Perlmutter) was born in Vienna in 1879, attended the Graphic Teaching and Research Institute in Vienna in the school years 1898-1901, then worked in his father's studio Adele. In 1938 he emigrated to Czechoslovakia and was deported from Prague to Theresienstadt in 1942, where he was killed on July 26, 1943.