Family at Kurpark Fountain, Austrian Alpine Town, 1950s

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Family at Kurpark Fountain, Austrian Alpine Town, 1950s — Archive & Atlas

Unattributed 1950–1959

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A mother and her two sons stand in front of the ornamental fountain at a Kurpark — the kind of manicured resort park that Central European spa towns maintained with the quiet conviction that flower beds arranged in concentric rings were therapeutic in themselves. The boys are wearing Tyrolean-style hats, the standard souvenir purchase for any family touring the Austrian or Bavarian Alps in the 1950s, a region that had discovered postwar tourism and was selling its mountain identity with considerable efficiency. Standing at attention in pressed trousers and leather shoes, the boys look exactly as children look when they have been told this is a Memorable Moment and they should act accordingly. Behind them a Volkswagen Beetle sits in the car park, the vehicle that West Germany had just spent a decade convincing Europe was a cheerful and democratic machine rather than a wartime one. The whole scene is the postwar European family holiday performing itself for the camera — the hats purchased, the fountain located, the memory duly recorded.

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