Kindheit und Jugend
Open Image Gallery Friedrich Stowasser on the occasion of his First Communion
1937
Hundertwasser Archive
Friedrich Stowasser photographed on the occasion of his first communion in 1937. Stowasser, the son of a Jewish mother and a Catholic father, was baptized on June 3, 1935. The name, registered in the Catholic parish office in Gersthof, is Friedrich Ernst Josef Stowasser. It can be assumed that his mother, Elsa Stowasser, had the foresight to arrange for the baptism in order to protect her son from exclusion, reprisals and persecution by converting to the Catholic faith. In Germany, the Nuremberg Laws came into force in 1935, radically changing the lives of Jews in Germany and branding them as people with lesser rights.