Artists

Leonard Freed

Press release

Less than 20 years had passed since the abyss of the Shoah when the American-Jewish photographer Leonard Freed (1929-2006) travelled through West Germany for several months in the early 1960s. With his camera, he wanted to capture how German Jews live today. Freed wanted to use his photographs to counteract the ignorance of Germans about the invisible Jewish minority in their country. He photographs in several Jewish communities, especially in the areas around Frankfurt and Düsseldorf.